1937-08-07 — Page 8

Young Wife Gizes Up Her Baby-Tells of Daring Experiment My Friends Call Me SELFISH!

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husband and I have

shocked respectable relatives

and friends.

We have just

broken

suburban home and han

our four year old baby

of others so that we might

the bogy of divorce.

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To-day our only parental respon- sibility lies in paying a week for Tony's keep.

We have boarded him out. We are happier this way. Friends who call us selfish just don't see the reason for this daring experiment

matrimony

They say I am paying £2 a week because I can't be bothered to go on being a mother. They think we want to kick our heels and go gay.

Bead my story and then judge for yourself.

We have been married five years. And we seemed to be heading for disaster

We are both in our middle twen- ties, and the fifth year of married life found us straining at the leash. We did not regret marriage, but we felt is was not giving us enough of life.

For life to us means serious work

not fun.

DO

for a tired husband

YOU?

and then we could gether

home; go out to

I felt too much

doing

myself

my husband was doing and that I wasn't

the best out of

His was the tragedy of the only child in a house of discontented parents. The effect was obvio

Crisis approached.

Then the door opened, magically. grew int le because I blamed My husband got a job in a new

not finding that Tony town.

knew that he, too, v

THE

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job, and because I Should we take another subur- house, and doggedly go on be.

WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"

ECENT

complained

wife "Where the floor area of a room gistrate is

that her husband threw a pot of k tea at her. The husband, defend- ing himself said, “Wouldn't you object if your son kept using his knife instead of a fork?"

Magistrate. I should certainly object, but I should not throw a pot of tea at my wife, No. He wouldn't. I don't sup My husband and I both have am-pose he would even throw a lump bitions, be in the literary world and of rice pudding. And that is wha 1 in the world of politics and social is wrong with English home-life:

its meal-times lack interest. food is dull, and if you brighten things up a bit Hook down their noses and say, "I wouldn't throw a pot of tea at my

avice.

MARY HAWORTH-

had a problem-to keep her ma Criage-from breaking up

thinks she's found the remed She's handed over her 4-year-old, son to the care of others. So she and her husband a Manchester Chasiness man. are alone to

Here she

again

full story!

Cher

the

That may sound a dull thing to grandmothers but, like thousands of other young women, I am in great earnest about it

wife.

The

"Ninety square feet or more, but less than 110 square feet 11⁄2-persons.

"Fifty square feet or more, but less than seventy square feet

4 persons.

What The Big World Is Saying

"I believe some of the atrocities of the Spanish civil war are due to people having been brought up on ball fights."

The Bishop of London. “Newspaper reporters remind me

babogus.”

Augustine Healter.

And what is the result? All *I am not sure whether the bag- over the country to-day, at break-pipes is a noisy instrument.” fast, dinner, tea and supper, thou

Bow-street magis

sands of neglected wives sit and weep softly, thinking, "He never Silence In Court

throw things!"

eveng

A judge has been quoted again on the extremely confusing word- ing of financial Acts of Parliament and particularly, of Income

Not that I am taking the hus band's part. He was unreasonable A knife is more effective than a fork for many things, notably peas and gravy This over-insistence I want to be more than plain on the correct implement is an- Missus, with a house to keep tidy, other example of how the English My old friend – Mr.

Save

I am not content to be just a wife in the world

a baby to mind and the weekly study everything about a meal shopping to do.

There is work in the outside world for a women as well as a man to-day

My husband agrees. He has al ways insisted that we are equal partners, and it infuriates him to see me spending my time warming his slippers and trying to put a brave face on a my discontent

"You've got better, work to do," he said. "It's no good pretending. wish to heaven we could give

being suburban parents for a fey years. Why can't we?

Tony was the trouble- Carly-headed, black-eyed, cheeked Tony is a gem,

come between m me by stealing om

unt

and is rarely evening. That with Tony sound asle

except the food.

aid family

unit, in the hope that all would be well in the end?

Would another baby solve: problem? was still young, but I was not ready in health. Worry had upset my nerves terribly.

We loved each other, but were so unhappy

A nursemaid to look after Tony while I got out and about a bit more? I had tried it. Nursemaids în suburban "semis" are impossible.

I asked myself time and again why British mothers did not get to- gether mom a interests, zwind each other's bahies, set up,

- In our neighbourhood they simply hugged their only childrenjealous- ly, all living lonely lives but refus- ing to do anything about it.

Side by side, all along the road, they cooked bacon and eggs-every

morning without realising that or two could have done the lot com- fortably, saving time and energy.

Just when I was in despair we heard of a person who would be willing to look afte kony, while we got over the remo Clad of the reher. I let him go, for I had wor- tried myself il

Then came reports that Tany, mixing with other - children, gaining weight, - getting heal eating better and growing more calm in his sorely tried little character.

“It seems a shame,” wrote his

to a home without kiddied. You new "Artie," "to send him back

ought to let me keep him.”

It was written in fun, but it the way out.

Tony, in love with the new demand to stay. My husband was doubtful, but when he

happy our child was, he agreed.

"We'll try it," he said. "If it falls it only means Tony has had a long holiday"

The result? Three people who were threatening to wreck a mar riage that began so beautifully, happy:

legislation. The precise intention My husband, in a “tr of the legislature (he sard) often obscured.

drawn

pie was of

Earl Winterton said recently rat tire reason why the French peasant has less intestinal dis- ease than the English worker is that the Frenchman insists on

edly, being easily the bar food being a pleasure. That is true. In France, if you suddenly

simus barmiarum. throw away your knife and fork barley-water, and,

He paused and put your face down to it,

The your hostees is pleased. She knows that another darkened mind has seen the light

mistake Wellington made when

It all brings me back to the fatal

won Waterloo. If we had lost we should have been a French colony and properly fed, instead of

nighty Empire with stomach-a

Half A Man

ave issued the Housing

obtaine

to to

very

a swig of ing

Cork, the

ked" (Laughter)

de

{making-strides with

have taken up a

new friends.

No more lonely

home,

have me

and