More and more these days the decision on whether a husband gets that new job or terrific promotion hinges on what the boss-to-be thinks of the man’s wife.
An article in a women’s magazine by R. R. Dumas Milner, a self-made millionaire executive, tells why he won’t hire a man until he has met his wife, why he has adopted the rule, and what he looks for in the prospective employees’ wife.
Six qualities that impress Milner most are these:
1. A good wife is friendly, smiles easily, is pleasant to live with, has many friends — but is careful not to let social activities interfere with her husband’s rest, health, and efficiency.
2. A good wife is a good citizen, wants to bring her children up in a nice community, is well informed.
3. A good wife is capable and does not ask her husband to do her job, but leaves him free to do his own.
4. A good wife is part of her community, interested in local government and town planning.
5. A good wife is adaptable and can settle anywhere if necessary.
6. A good wife’s primary interest is her husband, home, and children.
Milner says he may be asking a lot of his executives’ wives. But, he comments, “No business can be better than the men who run it, and no man can be better than his wife permits him to be.”
Taken from the Mansfield Observer. Mansfield, Ohio. May 30, 1956.
