The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-09-13

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hooying mean
Louise earnestly Nov, it seems to
me that I'd have to know man was
worthy-no matter how fascinating.
He'd have to attract me by his goodness.
Maude-Ughl ssGoodnessi' There are
lots of good men l simply abominatel
The man I love must be brave and cal-
tured, and he must love me better than
his life or his honor or-or anythingi I
believe could overlook a mans faults
if he loved me to distraction
Helen {conclusiyely)-Then he'd be
good for your sake.
Maude with the fervor of youth and
xperience)-Of course he would.
That's where a womans power comes in.
Louise--You girls talk as If man
were a pliaDle clay image.
Helen Well, not exactly that, but
pretty near it.
MaudeI believe that when woman
| inspires the right kind of love
Helen What is the right kind?
Louise (solernnIy)- Paul says: Men
| love-
Maude-Horrorsi Lou won't let the
least shred OF romance into her views.
Now, / want my husband to adore me.
No matter how frivolous am, hesnust
consider me perfection. | don't want to
be ruled or reverenced. I just want to
beloved. want my husband to be al
ways thinking about me, aud doing
things for me-hand me cherry,
Helen. Fred Willard sent me these.
Lovely, aren't they? Well, as was say
ing, want my husband to be intellec-
| tual and handsome; and las an after
! thought) of course, he must be good;
| but, no matter what else he Is, he must
be devoted TO me. Ny ideal man isn't a
! cold bIooded being, like that lank crea-
| ture we met yesterday who goes about
doing good works. Mol He's young and
chivalrous and patriotic, and cultured
and unselfish-
| Helen-Do you think he exists on this
| poky old planetg
Louise The highest type of man
! Maude dmpatiently) DO listen to
| Loul It sounds like one of Bacon's es-
says. Goonl
| Louise don't ask for perfect man;
but / do insist that he should have fine
instincts. He should love nature and
beauty. He should live for other than
sordid aims
Maude lnibbling cherry Yes, in
deedl l do so hate a stingy mani
Louise And, when he marries, he
| should seek woman to be his compan-
ion and helpIneet and inspiration. And
his children--well, I don't see how a
man can be bad if he has children!
Maude--I think Louise is cut out to
| be spinster, and deliver lectures before
all sorts of women's societies and asso-
Citations and that kind of thing don t
you, Helen2 Imagine the agonies man
would have to go through before he
could understand herl What were you
going to say, Lou?
HelenI was going to ask Lou if her
ideal man must be educated.
Louise--Well, not necessarily Icould
love a man who had never entered a col
lege if he felt within his soul the desire
to know and the purpose to improve,
and if
| Maude-There she goes again! That
poor mani
Louise-And If ] felt that was neces-
sary to the highest development of his
nature and that he was necessary tc
mine.
Helen-Seems to me you want TO re
duce marriage to science. You'll take
a husband to further your development
just as you'd take a tonic or-or an
emetic To-
| Maude-0h, Helenl How perfectly
ridiculousi
Helen-Did you ever meet man that
came up to your ideas, Louise?
| Louise promptly Certainly not
When do, III marry him-that is, il
he asks me-
| Maude-Now, when I marry, it will
be purely
| CAT this instant the clock strikes the
hour. Maude is shocked into silence.
CONSERVATION lengthens each face. There
is an impatient knocking at the door.
Cries of Times upl'' s.Let us inl'')
! Omnes (remorsefully, as they grasp
their neglected instruments)- oh, girls
Our trio!
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