OCR Text |
Show i U. S. Aloes I Briton Sees Frustration LONDON. A Eriton who returned re-turned recently from the United States reports that American men were frustrated because they were tied to their wives' apron strings. Writing in the tabloid Dally Mirror, John Walters, who said he had lived in a New York suburb, congratulated Englishwomen English-women on their "contented husbands." Walters said he was "gratified" to find that while the average Englishman sometimes is called upon to dry the dishes, he doesn't have to wash them, too. He also was pleased to see men out for a Sunday stroll, or in pubs with male companions, while their wives stayed home. "In America I have rarely seen this phenomenon," he wrote. "American housewives flock to women's clubs in search of culture and to decide bow the world should be run. And while they ate thus engaged, the husbands hus-bands look after the homo and kids." Walters, who is New York correspondent cor-respondent of the Daily Mirror, also found American men too ! fat, prone to Indigestion, and apparently ap-parently incapable of buying their own clothes. i "They are also perpetually tortured about the intentions of ! Mr. Stalin and about the possibility possi-bility of a big business depression," depres-sion," he said. |