Swing (Feb-Dec 1952)

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win 9 February, 19 A woman's daily food allowance should properly include a pint of milk, one egg, citrus fruit or tomato juice, one other fruit, a raw salad, another green or yellow vegetable, some butter or margarine, a small serving of potato, at least one serving of meat or fish and six to eight glasses of water. Annual medical and dental checkups should be a matter of form. Notwithstanding the best intentions of the medical profession, married women have, in the last analysis, but one savior, their husbands. Every husband wants his wife to have the appliances which lighten the load of housekeeping, but once he's bought them, he's done enough; he proceeds to take her and her work for granted. The average husband does not choose to consider his wife a domestic slave, so he entombs himself behind a newspaper rather than observe the evidence or help relieve it. Husbands are heard to complain, somewhat as follows: "My wife goes to bed soon after dinner. She sleeps nine or ten hours a night and still is so exhausted in the morning she can hardly get out of bed." Dr. C. Ward Crarapton, geriatric specialist, has a name for this common phenomenon, "Brain'beat." It is a physical reaction "How was the applause after your speech?" asked the fond wife, when her husband returned from a speaking engagement. "Terrible," he moaned. "It sounded like a caterpillar in sneakers tiptoeing across a Persian rug." to mental weariness. The deade result of bucket'and'skillet routin yields only to a lifting of interest a change of pace. The husband's is clearly cut out for him. It takes a little cooperation fi a husband to keep that ginger in wife's actions and a twinkle in eye. Wives get plenty of exerc but without enjoyment, it is o muscle strain. A wife ought to able to alternate swimming with s ing, golf with grocery buying, sk with scraping dishes, and hu should take the lead in seeing thai is done. When a wife gives evidence lagging intellectually, it doesn't matters much for him to bring h a stack of books for her to read ui he follows through with shared ii est. Occasional evenings of the going also will help preserve mental tone. Married love must retain the ; of impulse. A surprise corsag( dinner and dancing date, a bo strawberries on a rainy day will v wonderful alchemy in the hcai any wife. Give her that shot ir arm as often as possible. Only the in her life can stop the Ame wife at the canyon's brink — and himself a happier husband in bargain. "I've a job at last. Dad," the actor reported. "It's a new play, play the part of a man who has beei ried for twenty years." "Splendid!" said Father. "That's : anyway, my boy. Maybe one of thes they'll give you a speaking part."