Dear Ann Landers,
was deeply disappointed in your ad-vice to Frantic Frances whose husband comes home for lunch. Should a husband be looked upon with scorn and contempt just because he is healthy and normal? An overwhelming majority of American wives are so involved with their tea parties, card playing, and country-club martini drinking that they are too darned pooped to satisfy the emotional needs of their husbands. No wonder the divorce rate is zooming. A smart wife should be thrilled that her husband wants to come home for lunch. You failed every red-blooded American male in your audience when you gave that lousy answer.-Bitterly Disappointed Male

Dear Bitterly,
Apparently I disappointed a substantial num-ber of red-blooded American Females, too. One woman wrote, "I wish my old man would appear for dinner. I never know where he is from one day to the next." A reader in Chattanooga moaned, "Does the guy live in Tennessee? If he does please send him to my house for lunch. I'm a good cook and I'd be happy to see him." As for Bitterly Disappointed, show me one tea-partying, card-playing, martini-swigging wife and I'll show you five hundred floor-scrubbing, shirt-ironing, diaper-folding women who are busy from dawn till dusk trying to take care of their families. It is absurd to suggest that a wife should be on 24-hour call like an inhalator squad-ready for romance at the drop of a hint.