_Irritable Husbands_ SUPPOSE your husband got impatient and annoyed with you because you did not seem to enter heartily into the interests of his work and sympathize with its cares and responsibilities and soothe him out of the nervous harassments.

Would you not perhaps feel a little sore that he seemed to expect all from you and to give nothing in return?
I know how many women will say that is all very well, but the husband and father should feel as much interest in the home and the children as the wife and mother does.

That is, of course, true up to a certain point, always in general, and when his help is really necessary in particular.
But a man cannot enter into the details of his wife's duties at home any more than a woman can enter into the details of her husband's duties at his office.
Then, again, my readers may say: "But a woman's nervous system is more sensitive than a man's; she needs help and consolation.

She needs to have some one on whom she can lean." Now the answer to that will probably be surprising, but an intelligent understanding and comprehension of it would make a very radical difference in the lives of many men and women who have agreed to live together for life--for better and for worse.
Now the truth is man's nervous system is quite as sensitive as a woman's, but the woman's temptation to emotion makes her appear more sensitive, and her failure to control her emotions ultimately increases the sensitiveness of her nerves so that they are more abnormal than her husband's.

Even that is not always true The other day a woman sat in tears and distress telling of the hardness of heart, the restlessness, the irritability, the thoughtlessness, the unkindness of her husband.
Her face was drawn with suffering.