'You have made me afraid to talk in your presence. You knew I was not a college man when you married me, but since our marriage you have convinced me that I am an utter ignoramus. I am thankful to any one who helps me to improve my speech and manners in the right way, for I am ambitious enough to want to better myself as I grow older. 'But you never permit me to tell a story without taking the words from my mouth and telling it over. 'You continually humiliate me in the presence of other people by disputing any statement I make and trying to prove me wrong and yourself right. 'No man of any self-respect can enjoy himself in the society of a woman who treats him in this manner; no man can keep on loving a woman who treats him so, and I confess that I no longer love you, and want to go back to my old bachelor freedom. 'My home is the last place on earth to which I look for happiness, and my wife is the last person to whom I look for loving companionship. 'The very best impulses of my nature I have to hide from you, because you do not approve of my liberality and generosity. 'And you have convinced me so absolutely that I am your mental inferior, that I will no longer compel you to live with me.' Then this bad husband went out and slammed the door and did not come back again. And afterwards there was a divorce obtained on the grounds of incompatibility, and the deserted wife told her friends of the terrible language this bad husband had used to her, and of his brutal conduct. II The second bad husband was none too good, perhaps, in the beginning. But he had grown thoroughly tired of the life he lived at clubs and hotels, and from the very depths of his heart he longed for HOME. He had experienced every type of flirtation which women make possible for an attractive man from his freshman college days to old age. He had come to a state of mind where he questioned if there were any really sensible girls and trustworthy wives, when he met his fate and ceased to question, and simply believed. He believed he had met the perfect woman. He told her how he longed for a home, and he asked her to be his wife. When she accepted him he was so happy that he simply cast all his old ideas of women to the winds, and with these ideas he cast all the wisdom which he had accumulated through his bachelorhood. Ofttimes in the past he had said that women needed to be governed; needed a master; that they became petty tyrants if given too much respectful consideration, or when their wishes were consulted on matters of any import to the husband. Yet in face of all the bad things this man had said about the sex, he began his married life by asking the girl he married to choose the way she preferred to live, instead of telling her how he wished to live.