Show KATHLEEN bonnis men are a lauah iku BU syndicate features by KATHLEEN NORRIS NORKIS ITS FIS A WISE man indeed at A whom the women of the family dont occasionally laugh the other day I 1 had a quiet laugh at my f favorite vor te psycho psychologist logis t he is my favorite because is usually so down to the ground sense I 1 ive ve listened to him on the radio for some months and know that he i 1 a professor and writer in his own line but the olner day he went way off the track and I 1 confess I 1 enjoyed it ive quoted him here twice once as reminding us that our first great oily ally god Is being pretty well neglected in international conferences these days and again when he gave some excellent simple advice about up uprooting roo ting corrosive hates from our hearts the talk that made me laugh in a quiet u let superior way was not on such grave subjects it was about aa an annual family gathering of his own clan apparently consisting of as many as 35 or 40 persons it seems that usually women prepare the feasts on these occasions each bringing her own famous dish prepared in special end and long praised ways all nonsense well my psychologist and some other men of the group decided that this was all nonsense there was no reason for tile the women to fuss and flurry about so simple a thing as a ceremonial dinner so this year let the boys do so the boys he boasted laid in buns and frankfurters mustard paper plates cups and napkins pop and coffee cakes from a famous baker and lea fee cream from somewhere where the drugstore perhaps and there was their feast so simple so easy to eat so econom N in the As kitchen vic bon leal of dishes towels and ia labor badr generally they were all he said in ills simplicity delighted it was a great success now it if he had stopped there 1 would have forgiven him men have been making clumsy attempts at cooking dinner preparing and baby tending since time began women during the same game period have praised the poor unsuspecting follows fellows have quietly unpinned the baby made the crib over turned out lights taken away away explosive toys or eaten the surprisingly novel frankfurters andice and ice cream and declared loyally that there never were such brilliantly original cater erst but he stop atop there lie ile went on to say that if ever the women were foolish enough again to set a with lace and candles dress turkeys frost cakes proudly produce the string beans with mushrooms and the corn with peppe peppers ro the iced puddings and lemon meringue pies have no sympathy the men have any sympathy with them not one whit the men help clear up and the women could bear the result of their own folly more than that housewives generally had better stop fussing with food as all important because men care a whoop what they ate men want the little women cool pretty rested and free she cani can I gathered this anyway she can give him frankfurters fur terl and bakery cake right straight along well im older than the professor and in this respect im wiser down cake and I 1 always did believe me professor the sweet cool chatty little woman with the can opener and the bakery bill loses out theres no sensation in the world that makes a tired man feel so snug so content so loved as to have the smoking kidney chop the asparagus the cube of cornbread the apple dumpling put before ore him by the woman who cares enough to fuss fuis with it ll 11 j them for him more divorces divorce a break i e a k loose ln in the kitchen than in any other part of thebo the house slapdash cooking is extravagant trava gant cooking and monotonous cooking meant means ulcers mental moral and physical smart mothers know that no dis curbing must be opened until antu the husband Is fed comfortably good wives set a pretty as well ns as a nourishing table and the things that world travelers see first and appreciate most are those very candles the line the dilver dish of olives or chocolates no congratulations go from me to you on that commonplace sloppy mustard smeared mashed paper plate and napkin meal you men served so complacently we women in these days have ha c too to i much of that sort of makeshift 1 k |