Judge J. C. Quinn of California has gained a national reputation as an authority on divorces. Hundreds of such cases have been aired in his court and he thinks he knows the remedy for such a condition.
In fact Judge Quinn has mapped out 10 questions for wives and where the wife will carry them out, he says, there will be complete happiness in the home in which she lives. The Gastonia Gazette carries the 10 questions as laid down by Judge Quinn and expresses the opinion that couples in North Carolina get along all right where the wives can truthfully answer in the affirmative the questions which follow:
1. Do you take into regard your husband’s income before you spend money?
2. Do you comb your hair and dress neatly for breakfast?
3. Do you put thought into your cooking?
4. Are you willing to stay home at night with your husband when he is tired from a day’s work?
5. Do you allow him the comfort of smoking in the house?
6. Do you control your impulse to nag?
7. Do you take an interest in his business?
8. Do you bother him with all your petty household worries, or do you try to make yourself as agreeable a companion as you did before marriage?
9. Do you make your home pleasant for his friends?
10. Have you gotten over the tendency toward jealousy?
The wife who fulfills the perfect mate outlined in the questions of course, would make anyone happier, but how about the husband? Does he help his wife in her determination to do just the things that please him and are best for him?
It would be just as easy to find 10 questions for men, and they would be just as important to the happiness of married people as the ones outlined by Judge Quinn.
The nagging, thriftless, indulgent, careless wife is a handicap, of course, but all the blame can’t be put on the women. The men have duties and they are just as important to the happiness of the home as the duties of the wife.
From the editorial page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 28, 1926
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