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If You've Wed A
"ROVER"
don't take his flirtations
too seriously
T'S nobody's fault,
IT'S
If a man is very life, the sun and the stars to
on him. I mean, the talks
made that way, no power o earth can change him.
he kisses. other girls, and them and looks at them as. man who simply has to have the if he worships them.”
and strange The fact is, such a man is often a excitement of new
the female society all
time, who very generous, lovable person; he can't help putting a look of passion likes to be nice to everybody. into his eyes even if he is saying, He is happier in women's
com-
"A packet of cigarettes, please," and pany than in men's because there who can't help being caressing is a streak of the woman in him when he helps you on with your which makes him want to be liked coat or sits beside your in a cinema. and fussed by everyone.
Sometimes I have heard people say: "Oh, it's his wife's fault. She doesn't study what he wants
and
He can't resist asking
a pretty
try to give it to him"-as if "he" were some spoilt baby whose mo-girl out to lunch with him and, be- ther offers it toy after toy, only to ing of a generous nature, he loves the adventure and the little trace have them rejected!
Mind, there are wives, plenty of of risk about it. them, who would drive the most
But it doesn't mean anything ex-
moral and honourable men to drink cept that his wife may sometimes who let have a lonely evening while he is or women-those wives themselves get slatternly and off on one of these childish jaunts, frowsy, for one thing.
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If things do go wrong with such by a marriage as this, it is usually the wife's fault. She isn't strong enough to stand seeing her husband-
How can a man be thrilled such a wife and excited to come back to her every evening?72
The nagging wife, too, with a flirting; she has too much self-love whining voice and always
some-to bear his giving a moment of at- thing to find fault with she tention to any other woman. would freeze her manup or send him to another woman. :-
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But strange to say, these wives are seldom unhappy if their hus bands stray from them, so long as they get the wages cheque'all right.
They prefer a grievance to a happy marriage. They haven't the capacity for love or happiness.
But what of the woman married to a man who adores her, lives an enchanted life with her, hates her to be out of his sight for a minute and yet simply has to flirt with other women?
So she starts to get terribly up- set, makes scenes, launches unfair accusations and drives her man tó the other woman.
And nobody is more puzzled and upset than he?
If you have married a rover, do try to take it lightly.
Tease him about his girl friends, feel utterly secure in your own mind about his love for you, and take up interests which will occasionally give you an evening out without him.
To let yourself get dull is the She is often unhappy because she biggest mistake, you can make. is puzzled.
She thinks to herself: "What on earth is wrong? He says I am his
Such a man as your man needs a laugh more than anything.
LEONARA EYLES.
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