“Feed the Darling!"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 January 1914, Page 5

“Feed the Darling!"

HOW TO MANAGE A WIFE.

A MAN’S INGENUOUS METHOD.

(From tile Daily News and Leader.)

Mr Walter Gallic-ban is to be congratulated on Ids courage, as manifested in “.Modern Woman, and How to Manage Her,” just published, in

shilling form by T. Werner Laurie, Limited. In less tumultuous times than these, sages and philosophers have confessed themselves unable to fathom the intricacies of a woman’s mind, let alone managing her.

As a matter of fact, it used to be the women that did all the “managing.” is it another sign of the topsyturvy times we live in that men are now, annexing this.erstwhile feminine function ! J A Woman or a Wild Animal? And how does Mr Gallichan propose to set about his gigantic task? Very .much, it appears, as though he was breaking in some wild animal. Woman, he says, “is often perverse, difficult, intractable, spiteful, unmanageable, and exasperating.” Furthernore, be declares, “the female expects i measure of roughness in the male.” ’s this the twentieth century t or have ve gone back with a bang to prehisoric times ? Here are a few simple rules taken it random from Mr Gallichan’s sysem of wife management; (1) Insist firmly upon the cold or i tepid hath daily, and see that she akes brisk exorcise out of doors in all weathers. (‘2) Keep her away from fancy needlework by all means in your power. (3) Let her dig, hoe, and use a lawn-mower. Housework is very good for women. (-1) Let her join hookey and tennis clubs—teach her to scull, fence, box -anything that will develop her physical strength and tone up her ner-

vous system. (5) Give your wife plenty of work to do, and let this 1)0 your rule or your policy of management. (6) Let us never forget that women are quite as irascible as men when suffering from hunger, therefore, “feed the darling.” Then listen to tin's ingenuous advice; “A modern woman of the contentious type is often amenable to reason and love. If she will only listen uiietly-—a process that is painful to ler—you may firmly, rationally, and kindly convince her that you resoect her, and gave the fullest pledge if that respect when you chose her from among all the women known to ■/on as the mate after your own heart. V woman who will not listen to such i manifesto must he endured or dismissed from your life.” An Experiment. It' is not at all likely that a modern woman would wait to he “dismissed.” She would have fled long before the sentence was finished. Think >f it. He had “chosen her from among all the women known to him.” This presupposes that all the women if his acquaintance were ready and villing to marry him. It is surely ime this masculine delusion, so universal in Early Victorian times, died t natural death. Further, it assumes Fiat he was the person who had stoop'd to confer a favour. It does not occur to him that she might also have ‘boson him out of all the men of her icquaintanee. Imagine trying to mine, say, a militant suffragette by methods like these. It would he as much as the life of the average man is worth even to attempt it.