THE IDEAL HUSBAND: HOW TO FIND HIM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 75, 21 December 1937, Page 11

THE IDEAL HUSBAND: HOW TO FIND HIM

Girls, if you wish to find out whether your prospective husband is the right type for happy marriage, spiil, apparjntly accidentally, a glass of water over ais Suadr.y best trousers and watch his reaction. This is one of the psychological tests advised in the memoirs of Miss Eugenia Solforescn, of Bukarest, Rumania, owner 0f the only matrimonial detective bureau in the world. She has now retired and married a wealthy Bulgarian manufacturer, who, presumably, meets the psychological standard required. Regarding the spilling of water on the trousers test, Miss Solforescu says that a man of uncontrolled temperament will fly toto a rage. A man wh0 cannot keep his temper when he is faced with a slight contretemps is not fit to meet real misfortune in the right. spirit and won't make a ^ood husband. 3 Another simple but efficacious way for a watchful girl to detect the real tendencies of her suitor's character, advises Miss Solforescu, is to let him plan a Sxxnday outing. If he plans a strenuous day, wxth early rising and vigorous walking, re- , ■rardless of the girl's inclinations or niood, he will become an uncomfortable _ busband, whose athletic disposition will ; nxeah a constant demand on his wife's btrength and time. The idcal husband-eleet, Miss Solforescu says, will plan the Sunday pro .rx-amme by taking the girl's tastes into consideration, yet suggesting some pastime that is in keeping with hxs own inclinations. One experiment tliat girls wlio want to make an estimate of their proposed husband 's character must certainly not miss, says Miss Solforescu, is to find out how he behaves with children. If a man grows impatient when a child asks him questions, he will be impatient with his wife as well. ' If he does not take a child 's conversation seriously and persists in talking down to it, or finds fun in teasing it, he is too self-assertive and not very intelligent. The man who comes out of this test with flying oolours is he who enters into the mentality of children, but knows how to keep them in the right placc. Miss Solforescu 's establishment emploved ten female detectives, all pretty, well-dressed girls. Their task was to put the characters, the moral integrity and the faithfulness of her clients' prospective husbands to the test. It was the business of one of these girls to get acquainted with the man in question to flirt with him, to try to invexgle him iixto an affair, to tempt him in every way, and then to make her report to the agency about his reaction tq he temptation.