Show KA KATHLEEN NORRIS The Little Fox in Your House douse MY Y WIFE GETS A COLD and the tip of her nose gets red and its it's that way all winter a man wrote me some years ago She never cures it up and you'd think she was rather proud of it if ft you could hear her say heres my cold again Now our little Sheila Is four and Gwen is beginning on her I believe she's going to have my colds every winter she tells people Doesn't it ever go through her head that a man hates that sort of thing Lottie talks poor another husband husband hus- hus band sand also wrote me some time ago I have saved a dozen of these letters letters let- let from men all about those apparent apparent apparent ap ap- ap- ap parent trifles that really do have an important effect on married happiness hap hap- Lottie talks poor writes Fred Green We arent aren't poor not by any standards that would hold anywhere else in the world We own our home and most of our car and anda a third of our television set and we have all the rest of it refrigerator and radio and telephone and gas stove Of Ot course we haven't as much money as wed we'd like who has But that eternal cheerful well were we're poor folks and fur coats and trips rips to Florida arent aren't for us Dont Don't talk alk as if it you OU were as rich as S the Smiths Fred because you know we cant can't afford things You get darned tired of ill iU this letter ends gloomily A third letter Is from a man who married a pretty wife wile Shabby at Home Beauty is Ferns Fern's business Kane Choate writes She never lets up The only people who see my wife looking pretty now are outsiders ers At home she's always plastered and oiled and has her hair done up in little snails dripping on her wrapper She always wears shabby washable things around the house because lipstick and paint and nail polish get on them She shoves M l K r H. H dont don't wr wrinkle me mo one side of her face up at me to kiss when I get home and says dont wrinkle me When we go out she looks swell and Im I'm proud of her But a man likes a pretty neat comfortable- comfortable looking woman In his home too Seven other letters among those I 1 have been collecting over the years complain of untidiness and sloppiness at the breakfast table on the part of ot busy wives vives and mothers but for these criticisms I have less sympathy sympathy for only a woman knows what that pre office school pre scramble can be beThen beThen beThen Then theres there's the husband whose wife cleans her fingernails in public pub pub- public lic places when they are lunching together downtown for Instance This is most Irritating and embarrassing embarrassing embarrassing embar embar- rassing for all aU present Ive gotten used and 1 guess most fellows have says this letter to her taking out her compact and doing up her face and her lips right at the table But then when she slowly and comfortably goes at ather ather ather her nails somehow it makes me mesick sick Jean and I share law offices together and she is a great pal but all this nail-cleaning nail and after- after lunch tooth-picking tooth in public kind kindol ol of goes against me Ruins His Jokes Another husband represents a large class of the domestically Ill- Ill treated He appears to be a real mans man's man president of more than one ono club and a general favorite He says his devoted loved little Lucy spoils all social occasions by hurriedly putting in the point of his jokes before he reaches them Lucy has no more sense of ot humor than our seven-months-old seven son he writes When I get started and everyone begins to laugh she puts In these little comments comments comments com com- ments or reminds me that it happened happened happened hap hap- on a Saturday and not a Tuesday or she corrects my gram gram- mar What the dickens can a man mando mando mando do when he begins to talk and his wife says that is funny Dan but Ive I've heard it so often or make this one short dear other people like to talk And it isn't the aggrieved aggrieved aggrieved ag ag- ag- ag grieved Dan finishes as 1 if she contributed anything Getting anything anything anything any any- thing out of my wife is like getting the cork out of at a bottle when its way down In |