Do you put your marriage before your career
?
Just ask your wife!
W
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1957.
NOT EVERYONE WILL
LIKE THIS, BUT ASK
YOURSELF HONESTLY
HENEVER I read a story in the news- papers these days about yet another broken marriage, you don't. find me looking for the other woman in the case.
I don't think she is important.
What I do try to find out is the real reason for the
Or,
wreck of the marriage, and I get all the information I need simply by asking: be fobbed off with flowers How many hours did the husband and wife spend to- or a basket of fruit. gether
if you aren't boo tired and ini the previous
the chorus girls are shapely, with a night at the theatre. (You choose which one, of
year?
is
For that, my friends, the worm in the apple BO course.) far as most marriages are
concerned.
Not sex.
Nol a husband's roving eye or a wife's indiscretion
after
Home
Questions
1 exag-
think unaccustomed Do you tippling. Not luck of gerated? Then, if you money, or TV, or bad cook- are marrled man who
Counter attack by someone who DOESN'Ting.
agree
A
EVE PERRICK
And who rouki evarn state more quickly ambitious man held
But sheer neglect.
Simple..
thia
THE
than back by u
mar-
Certainly I put my wife first, my job
second.
I dont mind telling you that If it came Lo * chotee be- tween my job and my wife, 1
am all in favour of love and marriage. They couldn't even tempt me with a ralse.
I do not believe that separa- tion is good for marriage, it a husband La always hanging around his office, or working overtime, or travelling abroad, he becomes a bad husband and creates a lonely, frustrated, em- bittered, and resentful wife,
by Leonard Mosley
happens to be reading this, answer these questions:
That seems to, me to be the very negation of the marital union--which is, when all's sail
MAN bringing home wapable of existing together in the bacon, even if the harmony. delivery
is service
HE institution of Bomewhat spasmodic, ir far
riage in the Western more satisfactory mate
woman who refuses to share his world at the moment is in 1 IF YOU took your wife and done, meant to keep a man
out for an evening with than he who turns up re-
a bud way
simple #
the boss and his wife and gularly but rasherless dreams?
: reason. Husbands 8. } } every night on the stroke
stature wives don't see enough of the boss and his wife got of six.
il
I cannot imagine any more miserable a marriage than one in which the huts. band has given up his career for his wife's sake.
Colleague Leonard Mos-
with ley came out
these brave words yesterday
"I don't mind telling you that if it came to a choice between my job and my wife, I am all in favour of love and marriage."
DANGER
WELL, I don't mind tell
ing Mr Mosley that if he put that into practice, one more happy marriage would go on the danger list.
joo
A m of suficient and adiptability to move caslly : in whatever circles his might take him, handicapped by u wite who But make the same effort?
cannot or will
Marriages like this are doome : to disaster whether the husband 10 the demands of his of those of his career in spite wife; or whether he sells him self short in order to please her.
No
SURPRISE
each other.
for
liusbands
their (and bosses) have begun to re- gard their jobs US more important than the women who cook their meals, breed their children, and warm their beds,
The modern Wile become an expendable-the sort of thing, ake a cooker,
or a car, or a TV set, that
involved in un argument with her would you stick up for her? You would? Even if she was wrong?
2 IF YOU had the offer of wonderful job in a place which your
wife hated would you still take it?
IF SOMEONE gave you a job which would mean a long separation- Bay & year or two from your wife would you ac-
use JO, man must work. 1f women you keep around and
are musi weep about it, then; (or abuse) when you
the marriage stands better in the mood. But, com- cept?
chance of survival if the un- pretty bawling
can be carried; pared with the Jou and the out in private, while the bus: Boss, she doesn't count. band is out of the house,
And it any man here is think-
ing about giving up his job all the trials that he can spend more time with his wife, take my advice.
་
IF YOUR job put you in touch with all sorts of fascinating people, but was one in which your wife couldn't really join, would you stay on at it?
On the answers
She is just the little wo with man who will put up
and tribula- tions and doesn't have to be considered except,
on her birthday questions depends, in or the wedding anniversary, opinion, whether you are going to live to a truitzul and com- panionable old age or whether She can, when she gets
you have u not very rumble irritated or seems unhappy, dute at the divorce courts.
Ask ber first which she likes! perhaps, company or your:
A home where the hus- band sits and broods over your lost opportunities and the cust? wife sits and dreams of all the good things she might have had if he hadn't lost them is no cosy domestic set-up.
Women, being the prac- tical sex, know it's quite possible for a man to have the best of both worlds --- a happy home and a success- ful career.
career
if the success that
of means he's often away from the happy home that's
of one
the
com-
promises they're prepared to make.
A CHOICE
Gu onak urprised.
L
her,
You'll be
GILES JOINS THE BIG DISCUSSION
99% said
10 those
my
ABOURING on with the nonsense; AND SAID: 'DARLING, I LOVE YOU
started by
Jute my
friend' SO MUCH I'VE GIVEN UP MY JOB'?" Leonard Mosley, who left himselt wide open to a counter-attack by my old Eve Perrick, I must partner sparring mention a few important facts they both mussed on the subject of "DO YOU PUT TOUR CAREER BEFORE YOUR WIFE?"
Are you crazy? 1% (Mosley) said Are you crazy? 0% said
She would be very, very happy'
And to the question: “WHAT WOULD
The usually clear-thinking, indepen- YOUR BOSS SAY IF YOU SAID TO dent Mosley became my late friend be-HIM: 'I WOULDN'T WORK FOR YOU cause of this sudden pandering to the ANY MORE IF YOU PAID ME DOUBLE I know already over-pandered wives (see foot-I AM GOING HOME TO LIVE HAP- MOST women
would prefer to have a note), and little old ground-glass Perrick PILY WITH THE LITTLE WOMAN FOR husband who can buy. her gained a temporary ally in yours truly by EVER FOR NOTHING'?" a washing-up machine, or. advising us not to give up our job so that better still, pay the stiff we can spend more time with our wives.) price of hired help, than: My wife endorses this advice. the pleasure of the com-
pany of it dish-drying apouse beside her at the sink.
Give a woman a choice of being a grass-widow in
a comfortable home, or harassed housewife in
99% of the bosses said
1% (Mosley) said
Good Good
the
0% cried their eyes out,
A galloping Giles Poll round countryside putting the question: "WHICH, DO YOU PREFER: YOUR MONEY OR YOUR WIFE?" drew the following in-
cresting replies.
99% said
--
11
Your money 1% (Mosley) said Your wife 0% said
Don't care To the question: "WHAT WOULD
poor one, she'll take semi-YOUR WIFE SAY IF YOU WENT HOME
solitude and splendour every time.
Besides, separation is not the main cause of broken marriages.
B
Couples who suffer from surfeit of each other's company are just es 1kely to decide to call it a day-nd their lawyers at the same time.
Most divorces, of course, are the result of huslands coming home at the wrong time, rather then not coming home at all, but that might be considered to be beside the point.)
DOOMED
rutE root of all evil, matrl- THE
monially speaking, is that uttle thing called incompati- bulity, which my dictionary
defines (48
the state of being
FOOTNOTE:
Unusually reliable sourcea tell me that the reason for this Afth-rate column stun by Mosley la that he has been up to no good and is playing the oldest and sweetest line: "Darling-I've- bought you - some-flowers-- and please - forgive - me - before-you-ând-oût.”
And to the final question: "WHAT WIFE WOULD YOU SAY IF YOUR TOLD YOU THAT IN FUTURE YOU MUST STAY AT HOME ALL DAY WHILE SHE WENT OUT AND EARNED YOUR LIVING?""
100% said
0% suld
Hooray! Shame!
and a woman united,
My Creed
BELIEVE no job is valuable enough to make the woman you love Jealous of it.
I belleve no boss is more im- purtant than your wife.
I believe no
salary is biy enough to compensate the loss of he? faith, happiness, trust and (most important), presence at your side.
DARLING, I once telegraphed the last war, I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH AND MISS YOU MORE THAN WORDS CAN TELL.
my wife during
FINE, she cabled back, BUT HOW ABOUT COMING BACK AND MESSAGE IN PERSON?
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