A Good Word For The Husband.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2634, 16 October 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)

A Good Word For The Husband.

Among the very poor middle-class the life of the man is just as hard as that of the woman. So far from sitting in contemptuous indifference as to the work of h:s home, lie gives a hand all round. He nurses the baby, he cleans the windows, he lights the fires, he tends the garden, he cleans the vegetables—he, in a word, does ungrudgingly more than his share, and very often lor a lady who is quite tlie reverse of the Alice cf his courtship days. Let a little credit be given where credit is due. In the well-to-do classes, the wife, so far from being a . household drudge, has not enough occupation to fill her time; her one or two children have a nurse, a cook cooks her dinner, a dressmaker makes her clothes, a hairdresser docs her hair. If she considers marriage as a trade, she lias managed to make it a profitable one. In theory she may be a beggar; in practice she does her best- to make her husband a beggar.