Show KATHLEEN NORRIS the little fox in your house nry WIFE GETS A COLD and esmy AVA the tip of her nose gets red and its that way all winter a man wrote me some years ago she never cures it up and think she was rather proud of it if you could hear her say heres my cold again now our little shella sheila is four and gwen Is beginning on her 1 I believe ashes going to have my colds every winter she tells people it ever go through her head that a man hates that sort of thing lottle lottie talks poor another husband also wrote me some time ago I 1 have saved a dozen of these letters from men all about those apparent trifles that really do have an important effect on married happiness lottle lottie talks poor writes fred green we arent poor not by any standards that would h hold old anywhere else in the world we own our home and most of our car and a third of our television set and we have all the rest of it refrigerator and radio and telephone and gas stove of course we as much money as wed like who has but that eternal cheerful well were poor folks and fur coats Q and trips to florida arent for us dont talk as it if you were as rich as the smiths fred because you know we cant afford things you get darned tired of itt this letter ends gloomily A third letter is from a man who married a pretty wife shabby at ilonie home beauty is ferns business kanc choate writes she never lets up ian the only people who se see a my w wife e looking pretty now are outsiders at home ashes always plastered and oiled and has her hair dore up in little snails dripping on her wrapper she always wears shabby washable wa things around the house because Il lipstick listick and paint and nail polish get on them she shoves 1177 41 dorit dont u mi me one side of her face up at me to kiss when I 1 get home and says dont wrinkle me when we go out she looks swell and im proud of her but a man likes a pretty neat comfortable looking woman oman in his home too seven other letters among those I 1 have been collecting over th the years complain of untidiness and sloppiness at the breakfast table on the part of busy wives and mothers but for these criticisms I 1 have less sympathy to fo only a woman knows what that pro pre office preschool pre school scramble can be then theres the husband whose w wife ile cleans her finger fingernails naLls in public places when they are lunching together downtown for instance this la Is most mosi irritating and embarrassing for all present ive gotten used and I 1 guess most fellows have says this letter to her taking out her compact and doing up her face and arid her lips right at the table but then when she slowly and comfortably goes at her nails somehow it makes me sick ick s jean and I 1 share law offices together and she Is a great pal but all this nail cleaning and alter after lunch tooth picking in public kind ot of goes against me ruins ills jokes another husband represents a large larga class of the domestically ill treated ile he appears to be a real mans man president of more than ono one club and a general fa favorite lie ile 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 humor than our seven months old son he writes when I 1 get started and everyone begins to laugh she puts in these little comments or reminds me that it happened on a saturday and not a tuesday or she corrects my grammar what the dickens can a man do when he begins to talk and his wife says that Is funny dan but ivo ive heard it so often or im make ake this one short dear other people like to talk and it the aggrieved dan finishes as it if she contributed anything getting anything out of my wife is like getting the cork out of a bottle when its way down in |