Show KATHLEEN NORRIS WORRIS the little fo fox x in your house lury WIFE GETS A COLD and aalthe the tip of her nose gets red and its that way all winter a man wrote roe me some years ago she never cures it epand up and think she was rather father proud of it if you could hear her say heres heie lomy my cold again 1 now our little sheila Is fi figour four and gwen Is beginning on her 11 1 I believe ashes going to have my colds every winter she aha tells peo people lile it ever go through her he head that a man hates that sort of lottle talks poor another bus husband also wro wrote temes me some ome time tim eago ago t chave have saved a dozen of these letters from men all about those apparent p trifles that really do have an important effect on married happiness lottle lottie talks poor writes fred green we arent poor not by any standards that would hold anywhere else in the world we own our home and most mos of our car and a third of our television set met andee and we have all the tha rest of it refrigerator and radio and telephone and gas stove of course we as much money ais as waid wed like who has but that eternal cheerful awell were poor folks and fur coats and trips to florida arent t for us dont talk as tf lf you were as rich as the smiths fred because you know we cant afford things 6 you gt get darned a e ailred red of idill this letter ends gloomily A third letter is from a mancho man who married a pretty wife shabby at homo home beauty is ferns business kano ka io choate writes she never lets up tho the only people who see my wife looking pretty now are outsiders at home ashes always plastered and oiled and has her hair done up in little snails dripping on her wrapper she always wears weare shabby washable things around the house because lipstick and paint end and nail polish get on them she shoves novel dont dons m 0 one ona side of her face up at me to kiss when I 1 get home and says dont wrinkle me when we go out she looks swell and im proud of her but a man lilies likes a pretty neat liest comfortable looking woman in hla his home too seven other letters among those I 1 have been collecting over the years complain of u untidiness diness and slop Onesi at the breakfast table on the part of busy wives and mothers but for these thesa criticisms I 1 have less sympathy tor for only a woman knows what that thai pro pre office ofhie preschool pre school scramble can be then theres there the husband whose wile wife cleans her ingeni aUa in public places when they them are arc lunching gunchin 1 together downtown for instance thesis this Is trist irritating and embarrassing tor ill all 6 present resent ive gotten used end and I 1 guess most fellows have says this letter to her taking out ii her compall and dain doing 9 up h her or taco face ara and her lips right at the table hulthen hut but then whew when she slowly and comfortably goes fit her nails somehow it makes me sick jean and 1 I share law offices together and she Is agrest a great pal but all this nail cleaning and after afeei lunch tooth picking in public kinde of 01 goes against me ruins lits ills jokes another husband represents ai a large cl class assof of the domestically ill treated ila he appears to be a real mans man president of more than one club and a general favorite ho he says ays Ws his devoted loved little attle lucy spoils all social occasions by hurriedly putting in inthe the point pointon of his jokes before he reaches them lucy has hag no more sense of humor than our seven months bid son bon he writes when I 1 get st started artea and everyone begins to laugh sh sw e puts in these little corn com merits ments or reminds me that it hap bened on a saturday and not w a tuesday or she corrects my grammar what the dickens can a man dowhen do when he begins to talk and his wife says that is tunny funny dan but buc ive heard it iso often or make this one short shork dear other people mie like to talk f and it the aggrieved dan finishes as lf if she contributed anything getting any thing out of my wife is like ge getting biting the cork out of a bottle when its way down in N |