Show KATHLEEN NORRIS MORRIS The Little Fox in Your House MY WIFE GETS A COLD COLD- and the tip of her nose gets red and its it's that way all winter a man wrote me me some years ago She never cures it up and you'd think she was rather proud of it if U you could hear her say heres my cold again Now our little mUe Sheila is four and Gwen Is beginning on her I believe she's going to have my colds every winter she tells people Doesn't it ever go through her head that a man hates that sort of thing Lottie talks poor another husband husband husband hus hus- band also wrote me some time tune ago I have bave saved aved a dozen of these letters letters letters let let- from men all about those apparent apparent ap ape parent trifles that really do have an Important effect on on married hap hap- Lottie talks poor writes Fred Green We arent aren't poor not by any standards that would woud hold anywhere else in the world We own our home and most of our car and anda a third of our television set and we have all the rest of it It refrigerator and radio and telephone and gas stove Of Of course we haven't as much money as 81 wed we'd like who has hasT But that eternal cheerful well were we're poor folks and fur coats and trips to Florida arent aren't for us use Dont Don't talk as U If you were as rich as the Smiths Fred because you know we cant can't afford things You get darned tired of itt Ul this letter end ends gloomily A third letter Jetter is from a man who married a pretty wile wife Shabby at Home Beauty Is Ferns Fern's business Kane Choate writes She never lets up The only people who see my wife looking pretty now are ers ere At home she's shea always plastered and oiled and has her hair done up In little snails dripping on her wrapper She always w wears wars ars shabby washable things around the house because lipstick and paint and nail naU polish get on them She shoves M c dont don't wrinkle n r. r mt me one side aide of her face tace up at me to kiss klu when I get home and says say dont don wrinkle me When Ten we go out she the looks lQ swell and nd Im I'm proud of ot her But Dut a man likes a pretty neat comfortable comfortable- looking woman in his home too Seven other Letters letten among amone those I have been collecting over t the e eyears years complain of ot untidiness and sloppiness at the breakfast table on OR the part pan of ot bu busy wives and mothers but for tor these criticisms criticism I have Ie leas lesi sympathy for only e a woman knows know what that pre office I school pre scramble can beThen beThen be beThen Then theres there's the husband whose whore wit wile cleans clean her fingernails In pub pub- tic lic places when the they are lunching together downtown for Instance This is l' mot most Irritating and embar emb railing for tor all aU pre present ten Ive Jve gotten cotten used lIed and I 1 guess cue most mot fellows fellow have bave says ayi this letter to 0 her taking taUn out her compact and doing up b her r face tau and her Up lips right at the table But Dut then when she slowly and comfortably goes at her nails nalls somehow it makes me sick Jean and I share law offices together and she is a great pal but all this nail cleaning and after after- lunch tooth-picking tooth In public kind of goes oes against me Ruins His Jokes Another husband represents a large class of the domestically ill ill- treated He lie appears to be a real mans man's man president of more than one club and a general genera favorite He says his devoted loved little Utile Lucy spoils all social occasions by hurriedly putting in the point of his jokes before he reaches them Lucy has no more sense of humor than our seven old son he writes When I get started and everyone begins to laugh she puts In these little comments comments com com- ments or reminds me that it happened happened hap hap- on a Sa Saturday and not nota a Tuesday or she corrects my gram gram- mar What the dickens can a man do when he begins to talk and his wife says that is funny tunny Dan but Ive I've heard beard it so often otten or make this one short dear other people like to talk And it Isn't the aggrieved aggrieved ag ag- ag- ag grieved Dan finishes as If It she contributed anything Getting anything anything any any- thing out of my wile wife is like getting the cork out of a bottle when Its way down In |