have
started at the breakfast table."

Wives, if you can be the Mrs. Jones of these examples, and avoid being
the Mrs. Smith or the Mrs. Brown, you will be removing for businessmen
the greatest hurdle to promotion which we encounter. You will be doing
your part as the wife of a man in business.

You may determine the extent to which you are doing these things now by
testing yourself in the light of these ten questions:

_1. Did my husband start for work this morning in a better frame of mind
for having married me, or would he have been happier as a single man or
married to someone else?_

Remember, as you ask this question and apply your own answer, that we
are talking about business; hard, practical business where intentions do
not count. You may love your husband dearly, but if the results of your
love are not constructive, you must write the word FAILURE across the
record.

_2. Do I always treat my job just as seriously as if I were working in
an office for a monthly salary?_

Some wives feel that it makes no difference if they linger so long over
bridge or cocktails or shopping or whatever in the afternoon that they
are unable to prepare a suitable meal for their husbands in the evening.

_3. Have I grown in poise and interests like the wives of my husband's
associates and superiors?_

Wives who keep up with the procession are an asset; those who fail to
grow are a liability.

_4. Can I talk in the same terms as his associates and their wives?_

This indicates how carefully you have maintained your interest in the
source of your income, and how accustomed you are to expressing
yourself.

_5. Do I dress and act like the wives of the business associates and
superiors of my husband?_

You place a heavy handicap upon your effectiveness if your husband
cannot be proud of you in the inevitable comparisons with other wives in
his organization.

_6. Do I entertain with reasonable frequency the people who are in a
position to help my husband in business, or is our social life planned
wholly for my own amusement?_

Perhaps this question should read, "How long since I have entertained
So-and-So?" You may be surprised to find that months have slipped away
without your having done a single stroke of good for your husband
socially.

_7. Do I limit our social engagements during the week to those which
will not take essential energy from the job, or do I feel that my
husband "owes" me constant amusement when he