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Show Ion the girl's upbringing and training: were the last In the world to make her a good wife. And her attitude on life is all wrong. In these times of stress, it seems, she is easygoing, frivolous, even extravagant And th Joke of It, says her mother-in-law, Is that her husband regards her as perfect. per-fect. She gets appreciation that is given to few good wives. "Arbitrarily, I'm afraid, I turned upon this woman and said. 'Your son has a good wife. If she makes hlra happy, she's good !' " , Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. Finds Moral in Life of Disraeli Good Wife She Who Makes Husband Happy, Says Woman Writer. "According to contemporary opinion, opin-ion, the wife of Disraeli, prime minister min-ister of England, was ignorant, frivolous, friv-olous, tasteless. To her brilliant, distinguished, discriminating husband she was everything a wife should be, the object of his undying devotion. "When they married, he was thirty-three, thirty-three, she forty-five. His personality personal-ity 'had everything,' hers, nothing. To society their marriage was ridiculous. ridic-ulous. To Disraeli It was 'a paradise par-adise of adoration, a refuge of lasting last-ing tenderness I' "Where then Is the catch or the connection? "It appears that though ignorant, Mrs. Disraeli had good sense, which the prime minister found more comforting com-forting than the wit of the brilliant women he knew. 'JIary Anne' used her good sense to understand her husband, and understanding him, she devoted herself to his happiness, which was her single purpose in life. Her outrageous taste in dress might expose them both to ridicule In the aristocratic circles in which they moved. Her other shortcomings might embarrass the prime minister. But all that was unimportant in the face of an understanding and devotion devo-tion which a man with Disraeli's qualities of heart and mind could not fail to appreciate and to respond to. 'Mary Anne' knew what was good for her 'Dizzy.' She relaxed him and she fortified him for his great task. She was good for him. And she made him young, distinguished love her, commonplace and middle-aged middle-aged as she was, so that after her death no one could take her place, and for the rest of his life his note-paper note-paper was edged in black." Reflecting on the foregoing, a woman wom-an writer whose views on life are universally respected makes the following fol-lowing comment : "I thought of 'Mary Anno' when a woman I knew complained of the ; girl her son married. In her opln- |