WIVES AND SHEEP

New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 5

WIVES AND SHEEP

Sir,- Your correspondent "Wider Horizons" could not have chosen a better nom-de-plume to illustrate his owa want. Like the man’ whbd talks of sheep, and the fisherman, he wants to bore thousands’ of Listener readers because he is obsessed with ideas gained by reading out-of-date Steele Rudd stories. He will find, plenty of cases of "one track mentality’ close at hand without going to the country. Dissatisfied wives and stories .like the play he writes about haye been favourite themes with writers for ‘ages. Farming is a scientific business nowadays, and the farmer’s wife is a very happy person with her Institute meetings, amateur theatricals, etc., in the ‘remote backblocks. They meet at one another’s houses if they have no hall near by. The type of husband he mentions is extremely rare, but can be met with in cities. It is just. one of the unfortunate things about human nature that some people even living in good circumstarices:.are dissatisfied with life-note Hollywood with all its "Wide Horizons." _If your*:correspondent would read the Women’s Notes in any farm journal he wouldy observe that a better state of things exists than that which he writes about..When a man states he wouldn't blame a wife for throwing a teapot at her husband he is exposing his own head, but farmers’ wives are more likely to observe him with pity. A highly-educated clergyman who loves the country said to me quite recently, "Living on concrete. makes men hard." This does seem to be the reason why some men need!essly attack other people. The burial of an aged" ‘relative is regarded everywhere as "a course of nature and life goes on ds usual. In towns men may be seen goifgto golf or bowling as-soon as the’ funeral is

over.

BROAD MIND

(Waimate).