Proverbs 21:19

"It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman."

This is parallel to Proverbs 21:9; and again we must say that the same thing is true of a contentious and fretful man. Illustration: This writer served for seventeen years as a member of the City of Houston Housing Board of Appeals. One night a German citizen appeared before the board requesting a license for the installation of a mobile home in the rear of his residence. Mount Termini, our chairman, asked how large was his residence. He said, "Fourteen rooms." When asked how many people lived there, he said, "My wife and me." Mount Termini said, "That does not come under our usual guidelines for issuing such a license." "But I absolutely have to have it," the applicant said. Mount Termini asked, "Why"? The man said, "My wife has got the talking disease and she talks day and night without intermission; and if I don't get out of that place, I'm going to do something terrible! I want to live in that mobile home"! We granted his request.