Modern Screen (Dec 1938 - Nov 1939 (assorted issues))

MODERN SCREEN THOSE MARRIED CAREER GIRLS! (Continued from page 35) and the house tidy? I wouldn't blame her for saying, 'Yeh, you try pounding a typewriter all day and then standing over an ironing board half the night and see how you like your own advice !' " NEVERTHELESS, she conceded, there were many things a working wife could do or avoid doing that have nothing to do with material possessions or the state of the family pocketbook. Things that involved only an expenditure of time, tact, and effort and didn't cost a red cent. Things that, in turn, proved as effective for a $20 a week stenographer as for a $2000 a week movie star. The secrets she had discovered for that sort of thing she was more than willing to share. "Divorce court judges, sociologists and research scientists in human relations tell us the employed wife is proving an alarming threat to the stability of American marriage even if she has helped to put it on its financial feet and raise the general standard of living," Myrna said. "They are right to a certain extent. The whole idea of the woman carrying part of the financial load of a marriage is so new comparatively, that we've had no time to adjust ourselves. We've had no time to work out the fine points in the new relationship between man and wife. "But I cannot help feeling it is the little things she does or forgets to do that are responsible for a large part of the trouble and misunderstanding that oftimes arises between a man and his working wife. Things that rob him of that feeling of inherent authority and command that has been his by right since the days of the caveman. Things that tend to make it obvious that he no longer is the lord and master of his household." That feeling is important to a man. Let him keep it, Myrna counselled. And if the wife happens to be holding the more important job of the two, or by a lucky break, earning more money than he, work to make him keep it ! That is her real job if she wants a happy home. "The pity is, so many of these important little things really are too easy to do or to avoid, so we go stumbling blindly along, wrapped up in our own little world, giving hurt and offense where none is intended. Men are so much more sensitive than women credit — and so very unselfish about hiding their wounded feelings," Myrna explained. When you come right down to it, it really is no trick at all to preserve a man's independence and sense of superiority, she went on. The cardinal rule to learn is : never belittle the importance of anything he says or does. Show him by word and action that you depend a great deal upon his sage guidance and help. Do him the courtesy of consulting him on all but the most trivial matters that affect you, your work, and your home and abide by his decisions when possible in all major matters. After all, smart women long ago learned the parlor feat of making their wishes appear to be men's. Sincerely interest yourself in the workings of his business and share his enthusiasms for it and his new ideas. Encourage him to talk about it when you are together, and listen attentively when he does talk. 'And I mean listen!" Myrna said. "Don't give him one of those 'uh-huh' routines with half your mind while the other half is racing ahead with some little problem of your own, like the letters you must get out tomorrow or what was the matter with the day's sales, or how to play a certain scene that's coming up. That is worse than saying, 'I am too busy right now, tell me about it some other time.' In other words, use the Golden Rule. AND above all, do not interrupt something he may be telling you with, "Darling, the funniest thing happened at the office (or the studio or the store) today. Just when . I was getting ready ^ to . . ." That makes a man want to say, "the heck with it," or take to the tall timber. Money is a touchy subject when a wife is working and it takes a level head, hand, and tongue on her part to handle the situation with necessary tact and keep the sea of marriage calm. Unless you have a specifically different agreement, expect part of your earnings to be used for common expenses. That is only fair since perforce you are neglecting some of your natural duties as a housewife. Never discuss or compare your mutual earning capacities in front of friends. Men may vow they have no objection to their wives working but deep down in their hearts, Myrna said, they are averse m ISNT SHE? 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