Mark your wives: The 1930s marriage test

Telegraph.co.uk ^ | May 14, 2008 | Matthew Moore

[SF Republican]

I do not understanding the scoring; it appears even if the wife gets all merits and no demerits she still only gets 25 points = Poor

[GovernmentShrinker]

I read that as a euphemism for “Doesn’t put out for hubby”.

[Petronski]

I’ve been known to pester my wife about posting on FR during class. ;OP

[Red6]

Now that’s psychology one can’t disagree with! LOL

[Domandred]

Okay apparently I don’t know how to properly score or something. Instructions say 1 point unless weighted specifically. I figure that means the max score would be 25 if no demerits.

[trisham]

Ah, the good old days! :)

[OB1kNOb]

My score is 3. I fail miserably as a 1939 wife. I’d feel terrible about it, but yesterday, I chain-sawed down the overgrowth of bushes and trees and mowed the front and back yards. When my husband came home, I said, “Look what I did. Now you can relax.” I think I deserve extra points for that. :-)

Yeah, but did you greet him at the door with a cold refreshment as you were telling him that? (I'm kiddin', I'm kiddin')

[righting-wrongs]

I’d subtract all the other demerits if my wife came to BF undressed! lol.

[Cecily]

Furthermore, according to Judeo-Christian belief, the husband/father is supposed to be the spiritual head of the household and responsible for the religious training of his children. I guess the 1939 man got to punt the ball on that one. :)

[poobear]

“How many points for “naked at breakfast”?”

That would get a one in most households.

The rest of my comment was pulled by the Admin Mod.

[antiRepublicrat]

I’d say wearing red nail polish would be a really BIG demerit for a husband!

Unless he's Penn Jillette.

[najida]

LOL!
My score is 3,
erm a negative 3 at that!

I love being a hostess though! For my friends :)

[najida]

But darlin’,
there must be something alkaline to neutralize the acid of the womenbashers-—

I mean,
otherwise, without strong minded females,
FR just becomes a boys locker room, with living pin-ups...and ya wouldn’t want that, now would ya hunny bunny ;)

[najida]

LOL
BAD Girls where red nailpolish

(Golly, isn’t there a group that thinks red is evil??)

[Sax]

"Puts her cold feet on her husband at night to warm them."

I like that.

[ConservativeMind]

I would prefer, for the humor involved, to think it was built to purposely make that the highest score, but I would imagine there are more pages to it.

[najida]

LOL!
Same here-— I used to work 12 hour days and yeah, all I wanted was about 30 minutes to read my mail before bed.....

[yuleeyahoo]

He did one for husbands too.

Both of the tests are at http://flickr.com/photos/tiabla/2491839794/in/set-72157605047200616/

[Lizavetta]

These lists are retarded. All most husbands really want is a nice woman who will give him lots of sex.

Men are wonderfully simple (and I don't mean stupid, I mean not complex) and easy to please.

[Age of Reason]

Any nail polish on a woman, along with makeup in general, is a negative.

The more makeup she uses and the longer her nails—polished or not—the less attractive I find her.