THE DIFFIDENT HUSBAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 41, 19 February 1915, Page 2

THE DIFFIDENT HUSBAND.

and the enthusiastic wife. “My wife won’t let me,” to quote a line of a well-known song, has been the excuse made by many a married applicant for service with the reinfoicements, subsequently desiring to withdraw his' application. It is not often (remarks the Christchurch Press) that the husband is unwilling to serve his '‘country, but his wife wants him to. An amusing little incident of this nature, however, occurred at the Christchurch recruiting office yesterday. A young woman of about thirty years of age came along and asked for an enrolling form. She said she particularly desired her husband to enlist, but he was not at all enthusiastic. She considered he would get through the medical examination easily, her only fear being that he might be too big. He was only 611 2in in height, and weighed 13st. She was assured that this would hardly be a handicap, and so she went away blithely with the enrolment form, an- j nouncing her intention of making her j diffident husband append bis signature] to it. . !