Show KATHLEEN NORRIS The Little Fox in Your House WIFE GETS A and 11 the tip of her nose fets and it's that way all a man wrote some years never cures it and you'd think she was rather proud of it if you could hear her my cold Now our little Sheila is and Gwen is beginning on believe she's going to have my colds every she tells Doesn't it ever go through her head that a man hates that sort of talks another husband also wrote me some time I have saved a dozen of these letters from all about those apparent trifles that really do have an Important effect on married talks writes Fred aren't not by any standards that would hold anywhere else in the We own our home and most of our car and a third of our television and we have all the rest of refrigerator and radio and telephone and gas Of we haven't as much money as we'd who But that eternal cheerful we're poor and fur coats and trips to Florida aren't for Don't talk as If you were as rich as the because you know we can't afford get darned tired of this letter ends A third letter is from a man who married a pretty Shabby at Home is Fern's Kane Choate never lets The only people who see my wife looking pretty now are At home she's always plastered and oiled and has her hair done up in little dripping on her She always wears shabby washable things around the house because lipstick and paint and nail polish get on She shoves don't me one side of her face up at me to kiss when I get home and wrinkle me we go out she looks well and I'm proud of her But a likes a comfortable looking woman in his too Seven other letters among those 1 Hava oil complain of untidiness and sloppiness the breakfast table on the of busy vives and for these 1 have less for only a woman knows what pre office scramble can be Then there's the whose wife her fingernails in pub lie when they are lunching together for Instance This is most irritating and embarrassing all present gotten and 1 guess most fellows says this her taking out her compact up her face her right at the But then when she slowly and comfortably goes at her somehow It makes me Jean and I share law offices and she is a great but all this nail-cleaning and after-lunch tooth-picking In public kind of goes against Ruins His Jokes Another husband represents a large class of the domestically He appears to be a real man's president of more than one club and a general He says his loved little Lucy spoils all social occasions by hurriedly putting in the point of his jokes before he reaches has no more sense of humor than our seven-months-old he I get started and everyone begins to she puts in these little or reminds me that it happened on a Saturday and not a or she corrects my What the dickens can a man do when he begins to and his wife says is but I've heard it so or this one other people like to And it the aggrieved Dan if she contributed Getting anything out of my wife is like getting the cork out of a bottle when its way down |