DON’T INTERFERE!
Dear Miss Rutledge,— Next door to me is a tunny little house in which a burly, bullying man lives with his tiny, miserable handful of a wife. This creature treats the woman as though she were a slave. He dominates and bullies her cruelly at every turn, and she is the most sorrowful, brow-beaten specimen of humanity I have ever seen. Do you think that I should call a policeman the next time the brute starts to play up? “SYMPATHETIC.’’ ANSWER Beware of burning your tongue in other folk’s broth! You would probably meet with much scorn from your uttle •‘spineless” neighbour if you tried a rescue stunt when next her husband is on the “warpath.” As she is so lacking in spirit, she must be lacking in brains, and you might as well look for wood in the wilderness as hope to find strength in a fool. Some women are born doormats to men, and enjoy cave-man handling to a marked degree, therefore, although the situation wounds your finer sensibilities, and the lamb-and-lion attachment seems greatly to the woman’s detriment, take my advice and use your intelligence where it is sure to be better appreciated. ANNE RUTLEDGE.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1080, 18 September 1930, Page 6
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200DON’T INTERFERE! Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1080, 18 September 1930, Page 6
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