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Show Dad Henpecked? Well, This Should Change His Mind! The next time Dad complains about being henpecked, remind him that greater men than he have endured worse. Take Abe Lincoln, for instance, his wife often of-ten drove him out of the house with a broom for napping on the hall sofa, and the tongue-lashings she administered in public were the talk of the country. Xanthippe, wife of Socrates, was a shrew. Her husband's indifference indiffer-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 husband's head. 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 the same category. The latter went a bit far and in a fit of religious zeal had her husband's head cut off. |
