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Hen-Pecked Heroes
HP HE nagging wife is nothing new.
In American history, Abraham Lincoln stands out as the classic example of the henpecked husbknd. His wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, often drove him out of the house with a broom because she couldn't endure his desire for a noon-time nap on the hall sofa. The public tongue-lashings she ad' ministered were notorious throughout the land.
In ancient history, there was Xanthippe, the shrewish wife of Socrates. The philosopher's indifference to money matters and practical affairs often drove her into a fury. She would souse him with a bucket of water, to the amusement of their Athenian neighbors.
The men who told the world but whose wives often told them were almost as numerous as their deeds. Dominant and self-assertive were the wives of Disraeli and Henry II. Henrietta, the wife of Charles I, climaxed her religious zeal by having her husband's head cut off.
Even the prophets were not above taking their wives' advice. Mohammed was one who owed a great deal of his early success to the devoted help of his first wife Khadija, a rich widow for whom he was originally a camel driver. In fact in his later life, the prophet was so wife-minded that though he limited the number of wives his followers might take to four, he himself had several more.
As one professor has explained it, all men like to think they're henpecked. But every man is two men: one, what he is to the outside world; and the other, a humbler creature in his home. Men of destiny came in for just as much wifely criticism as the average man today. Feel better? — Marion Odmar\.