Mundane Mnsings Does Your Husband Know You By Sight?

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 111, 1 August 1927, Page 5

Mundane Mnsings Does Your Husband Know You By Sight?

‘‘Too many women,” said the newly engaged girl su'mgly, “let themselves go after they are married. Now, I shall never do that! I shall take just as much care «as ever of my appearance. Harry will never see me locking a fright in dowdy frocks and untidy hair. Why, fancy if the man gave up shaving regularly or having his clothes pressed—how could one expect his wife to stay in love with him And, of course, it is just the same when things are reversed!” And then she marched away to meet her fiance, and left her three married women friends looking a little guilty. Till one of them smiled slightly and said: “Wait!” And I think she was right-—I doubt that that young girl will live up to those words in the long run! Not that I advocate any woman, married or single, letting herself go or losing her looks —but still one has to remember how many men —once married —really do not know their wives by sight! That may sound absurd, but I can assure you that the case of the husband,' recently reported, who mistook a strange woman he saw taken ill in the street for his wife is by no means unique! She collapsed, you may remember, and, calling an ambulance, he had her taken home, meanwhile showering endearing terms on her and calling her by his own wife’s Christian name. His excuse to his real wife, who met the' cortege on the doorstep, was that his sight was not good—that the light was uncertain, and finally that the stranger was dressed in similar clothes to hers! Now, I do not for a moment believe in his first two excuses—the uncertain sight and light—but the third rings true. The unfortunate man only recognised his wife by her clothes and so had been misled. This may sound as though he did at least notice her dress, but what he really noticed, I expect, was the mere combination of colours she familiarly Probably, in company with thousands of other husbands, he had long ceased to see his wife —but he vaguely realised her as a figure dressed, say, in wine coloured cloth and a brown fur necklet. And no doubt she, like many other women, wore the same clothes for quite a time and the shade of them seeped into his mind in this association. . , Then, when he saw them repeated, he naturally said to himself "there is my wife.” . Ho could not, I am certain, tell a new frock from an old one. But then so few men can! llow many women spend their time complaining that when they put on some new garment and go downstairs, in pleasant expectation of a compliment, the brute they are married to never even notices the slightest change in their attire? But these are women who do not know their luck. . After all, what is more trying than married life with a man who has an observant eye and who really sees one? , . i He realises exactly how old one appears and when the lines begin to come round mouth and eyes. He sutlers from no illusion that one has not changed a scrap since first one met him —no such luck! AT DIXIELAND A large crowd of dancers were present at Dixieland on Saturday evening when a farewell dance was given for the Canadian footballers. Among those present were: Mrs. W. Wengdal, Mrs. P. Smith, Mrs. Selwyn Wright, Mrs. Neil Ballantyne, Mrs. J. P. O’Connor, Mrs. J. F. Shanly, Mrs. T. Gardner, Mrs. Ralph Russell. Mrs. Hawken, Mrs. Stanley Parker, Mrs. B. Goring (Dunedin), Mrs. A. Goring, Mrs. G. Cox, Mrs. B\ J. young, Mrs. A. Meadows, Mrs. Len Sutherland, Mrs. A. Daniels, Miss B. Ferguson, Miss Bali Murray, Miss Jean Kent, Miss Joan Stokes, Miss Beth Stokes, Miss Joan T. Watson, Miss Rene McElwain, Miss Thwaites, Miss Collier, Miss Moira Turnbull, Miss Jeanette Claude, Miss Freda Reid, Miss D. Fenton, Miss Kings well. Miss Joyce Johnston, Miss Mavis Garett, Miss Eileen Brodie, Miss Runa Bastings, Miss Denness, Miss Whitford, Miss Tonge (Thames), Miss P. Keys, Miss A. Smith, Miss Alison, Miss . A. Meredith, Miss R. Gilmour, Miss S. Horne, Miss M. E. Duncan, Miss Elwarth, Miss Hayward, Miss A. V. Bagley, Miss Bennie Blacke. Miss J. Whif, Miss B. Whit’, Miss M. Millington, Miss J. Carter, Miss Kennedy. Miss Mason, Miss Ivy Mannering, Miss A. Taylor, Miss Eve Murray, Miss Doreen Symons, Miss Vere Meredith, Miss Mavis Meredith, Miss Bena Everett. Miss Maisie Everett, Miss Bola Dyer, Miss J. Alexander, Miss Cecilia Taylor. Miss Sullivan. Miss !■:, Weaner.