Milford News | 1931-02-26 | Page 7 | Why Men do not Eat at Home

I Why Men Do Not Eat at Home ! By JEAN NEWTON "S-.!. A HUSBAND is obliged to take his meals with his wife, either at home or outside !" That, we learn from the dally news, was the ruling of a certain Judge ln the Vienna Central Criminal court, I 1 I fodUGAG? I "Being hugged by a fortune hunter," says Opulent Ophelia, "Is Just another way of being pressed for money." (Copyrlsht.) WNU Service. when he Inflicted a fine on a certain Helen Pokorny for alienating the affections affec-tions of the husband of Marie Gross I Frau Gross charged that her husband hus-band refused to eat at home but took luncheon and dinner every day ln the rooms of Frau Pokorny, a cook I The husband declared that no affectionate affec-tionate relationship existed between him and the cook, but that he could not eat at home because "I cannot touch what my wife cooks, and am being be-ing ruined in health by attempting it." The judge, however, did not seem to sympathize with him. We don't have to invoke the old saying that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach to agree that Frau Gross had cause for complaint And far be It from us to deny that a man should eat with his wife. But as a woman to women It must be admitted that the Judge's gallantry ln upholding the rights of the wife would hardly have been violated by a suggestion that she take lessons from the cook. After all, a man has some rights and only one stomach 1 . 1931. Bell SyndloaU.) WNO Service.