MAN'S FREEDOM IS BRIEF: WOMEN RULE MOST OF HIS LIFE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 77, 23 December 1937, Page 14

MAN'S FREEDOM IS BRIEF: WOMEN RULE MOST OF HIS LIFE

The average man. spends only aix years of his lifetime free from feminine control — and in many cases, his freedom is even less (states a writer in an English newspaper). That is what I learned from haii* dressers, men's outfitters and club stewards, and from two "Men in the Street." Average marrying age is 25, and from then onwards most men find themBelves under petticoat influence. Till 18, mothers buy their son's elothes, see to their personai needs and and arrange their holidays. Then for the few years before they marry most men break loose and arrange things for themselves. "Those are the years when a man is most alive to his personai appearanee and least conservative towards innovations; he leads a fuller life than at any other time," said a West End outfitter. Said Henry Richardson, 32-year-old engineer, married four years, who lives at Lordship lane, Dulwich: "My wife has seen to all my elothes and helped decide on suitings. She has much bet* ter taste than I have." And Arthur Springworthy Park street, Camden Town, shop assistant, agreed. "Never bought a tie in my life,- decided on a holiday or bought anything for myself at- all without consulting my wife . . * and we'.ve been married ten years." -»v