Show Dad Henpecked Well This Should Change His Mind The next time Dad complains about being henpecked remind him that greater men en than he have endured worse Take Abe Lincoln for instance his wife often often often of of- ten drove him out of the house with a broom for napping on the hall sofa and the tongue-lashings tongue she administered in public were the talk of the country Xanthippe wife of Socrates was wasa a shrew Her husbands husband's indifference indifference indifference ence to money matters sometimes drove her into a rage When this happened she gave vent to her feelings by dousing a bucket of water over her husbands husband's he head ld And that too so the neighbors could see and be amused One historian puts Disraeli's wife Catherine of France and Henrietta wife of Charles I in inthe inthe inthe the same category The latter went wenta a bit far and in a fit of religious zeal had her husbands husband's head cut off |