Show KATHLEEN NORRIS three men speak their minds LETTERS came to me THREE athis this week from three angry men they were not angry anar 7 w with ith me but with an all women they are disgruntled avei over what they consider the unfairness of women and the way the world expects to spoil and pamper women and the amount of money women spend and their discontent and inefficiency and with the whole situation generally one of these men Is in spokane washington one in tucson arizona and one in fontana wisconsin of course they dont know each other but by a curious coincidence they all wrote at about the same time and they all say about the same thing my wife knows that I 1 have gone dally daily to the same office for the 11 years weve been married says the washington man she knows that my associates between the hours of nine and five are the same nice friendly unexciting men she knows that I 1 get 5 a week tor for my lunches and that I 1 come home dead beat at night thrilling adventures yet ill be darned jim polk goes on youthfully if she talk as if I 1 was off every morning for thrilling adventures our kids are now 9 8 and 5 all in school all healthy adele has so much more leisure than I 1 have or ever have had since I 1 took my first job at va an 1 az 1 ua 1 Z x k R n she telephones bones 17 that there simply any comparison adele can make her own schedule of 0 hours I 1 cant she telephones goes to market stops somewhere tor for lunch and maybe takes in a movie or she talks with her friends about fresh curtains in the kitchen or the childrens clothes or she lies down for or a nap where the hannibal asks jim disgustedly does she get the idea she gets the worst of it martin elge of fontana puts it even more forcefully a man to have equal consideration with his wife he demands the minute she gets tired or discouraged she threatens to claim allmon alimony Y take the kids go back to her mother and get a job maybe he loves her and his home and his kids that matter ashes lost interest its nothing to her that time will work almost any marriage into a good marriage martin goes on true in my own case in our forties fortie s we ve are arc a happily married couple out but there were years when my wife felt like a prisoner because e of small children N now ow with all of 0 them settled ive got the harder job and she begins it but all our young years were spoiled by her discontent and resentment she paid little or no attention to me except to lo say that she wished she had it as easy as 1 I had their own bosses women have a better time they spend more money rn much U ch more their own b bosses os se S tha than n men says this same letter they live longer there are thousands of comfortable widows they hold a all if the cards they could make a mans life heaven make him glad to get home make him willing to work like the treadmill mule that most of us are but do they do it they do not 1 I believe martin finishes that you are a woman who might do something about it about all this envy and nagging and the divorces that break up homes and take little kids away from their fathers some day arent we going to begin to end the injustice of punishing men who done anything wrong unless its wrong not to satisfy a spoiled woman the third letter Is shorts short and right to the point A mans writes fred fisher from ArIZ arizona Dna haw haw it Is to laughl I 1 married a terr terribly ably pretty sweet little girl when I 1 was 21 and within six months she was running up bills going about with other men and mad as a snake because there was going to be a baby she got the divorce on grounds of extreme mental C cruelty well I 1 was pretty grouchy in those days also she got my son and by way of settlement my fathers home that he had left to me she sold it at the real estate peak took my boy to another town had a swell time on the money and married again 1 I married again too a much finer woman but it was the same thing she felt she was a slave and that I 1 had it all 11 my own way we have two girls their care certainly kept their mother busy for some half dozen years but it was lovely care and I 1 used to envy her |