Show KATHLEEN NORRIS dont look for flie dull facet THERE ani any guidebook for wives wt there any school course that they ought to take demands a i husband from rom kT trenton renton N J ive got the darn dest sweet wife any man ever had his letter goes on and I 1 love her but rhody rhodi has about as much system order management budgeting as a white bunny and it if I 1 talk about such things her eyes go vague and she looks rather distressed and in live minutes ashes forgotten all about it we have ave six children two girls IV who ho areline by my first wife who died when they were mere babies tour four boys now 8 0 3 and one year old born to rhoda and me when we were first married 10 years ago my mother lived with us and managed everything as rhody was still teaching after this mother was invalided Invalid ed for two years by a stroke and the tha babies began to arrive and rhody stayed home 1 I know that though she was devoted to rhoda mother must have suffered through the disorder and tile the slipshod ways of our household hold baby garments everywhere no regular hours for naps or meals and rhoda as apt to give us a bread pudding tor for breakfast and oatmeal and bacon for dinner it if the fancy struck her or pick up the children and telephone me to meet them on some come distant beach or mountain road for a picnic supper feels disloyal writing this much the hus bus band conti continues 1 I feel disloyal tor for as I 1 began by saying I 1 have a darned sweet wife and rhody Is a fine alno cook as well she never wastes anything and she can make a good meal out of an ice box full of scraps that look like nothing plus to me my little girls have never had to realize their own mothers loss for fok rhoda was their kinder OR arg J bilins fifie took cook as will well garten teacher when my first aue wife died and they adored her then and they do now 1 I honestly have nothing to complain of but altho although I 1 hear other fellows at the office talking of insurance su and buying ing bonds bondi and see other houses neat and well organized I 1 come home to racket and confusion find rhody and the children digging vegetable gardens at six in the tha evening and the baby with them in his hs disreputable basket and some sometimes Almes I 1 wonder if there be a school or a course in girls schools that would teach them something about just tha the simplest sort of housekeeping it must be simple because so many women do keep reasonably orderly homes now dont don rip into me chester heyman disarmingly concludes his hl letter tor for I 1 feel like a prude prud 0 and a sissy when I 1 heckle my good wife about childrens dirty hands at meals and comment on tho the state of the window curtains having so much perhaps im exacting to want more but Is it so hard tor for a woman to observe just the ordinary routine of housekeeping tell mo me if im wrong rhody reads every word you write and it if you could jack her up a little on these things it would make my life a little simpler it priceless diamond chester my dear you are inot not wrong there is no question fuestion q of right or wrong here but you are a man who holds a priceless diamond in his hand and turns and twists it to see if one of the facets Is not a little out of line the brilliance of your diamond ought to blind hyou to any such defect and I 1 believe that if you could truly apprel cata cate the woman you have in rhody it would here Is a girl who makes babies love her in school and when their mother died carried that love right into their lives as a new mother she gallantly went on teaching for awhile presumably to help you out financially and stopped when the care of the elderly invalid a hame a man acdan and an increasing number of babies interrupted her own career or rather replaced it with a higher career she has klen given iw you four tour sons soils I 1 she nursed your our mother in the I 1 last hard bard months of an illness she handles a job that would put some women into a psychopathic ward and evId evidently entIk she enjoys every moment of it SL six small children and your rhoda has spirit enough to git get up picnics to plant vegetables to drag even thelmab the baby off to distant lovely places to enjoy an outdoor meala As for the bread pudding tor for breakfast has it ever occurred to you that wh when en you eat cat two pieces of raisin bread toast coffee with cream two boiled eggs butter and sugar for your breakfast youve eaten a bread pudding |