How Wise Wives Win Success

NZ Truth, Issue 1216, 21 March 1929, Page 10

How Wise Wives Win Success

TT is no exaggeration to say that if you -want to discover the reason why any man is a success or failure m life yoii m'u^t invariably look for the' woman. The French, who are wise enough to take women for granted, even have a proverb to that effect: "Cherchez la femihe!" We women have undoubtedly a strange power which enables us to "make" or break- the men we marry. No one who has ever been interested m life can question the truth of this. Watch the world and its marriages — especially those m which the man is said to be, "Oh, quite impossible; my dear!" Marriages of this type make grandmothers hold their shingled heads m despair.; mothers cajole, and fathers plant themselves on the hearthrug before breakfast, and growl at the eggs, the cook, and the •Government. .--'' 1 The wise wife smiles and g6es right ahead, and before half-a-dozen '■'• yeare are up, the.familyls forced to admit that, after all; she must have known what she was doing — there is every indication that the marriage, -.';..- both financially and socially, is .going : to be a success. . . RmiiiiiiiiiiinniimniiiiiiimmiuiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiuiiiiNiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiniiilm^