Bad Manners Cause for Divorce

Wives beware… any husband, who is even half-way bright, is bound to know that his wife doesn’t consider him worth pleasing if she wears her old clothes and her bad manners for him and carefully hoards her becoming clothes and manners for others! 

WE the Women

A Minneapolis husband, in a cross bill of divorce, claimed his wife wore stockings with runs in them “from ankle to knee”while she had 140 pairs of new ones put away.

Evidently that wife, if the charge is true, just carried to an extreme a mistake that many wives make after a year or two of marriage- the fault of hoarding their most pleasing and personable selves to dazzle outsiders.

Such women don't pay any attention to what they are wearing if they don't count on seeing anyone but their husbands. Only if they expect guests to drop in do they pay attention to what they wear around the house.

They wouldn't think of bothering to have flowers on the dinner table just for their own and their husband's appreciation. They try to set a pretty table only when there are to be guests.

Seek to Impress Others

Their manners-even the simple matter of an unfailing “please” and “thank you” suffer a terrific let-down when there is no one around but their own husbands. But they are always courteous to the people they want to impress.

Such hoarding-even though it is never brought out in a divorce suit-is bound to do a lot to make a marriage lose its charm.

For any husband, who is even half-way bright, is bound to know that his wife doesn’t consider him worth pleasing if she wears her old clothes and her bad manners for him and carefully hoards her becoming clothes and manners for others. – By Ruth Millettt, for Imperial Valley Press, 1944

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