The record-union., 1892-08-20
ONE VOMAEiS WAY.
She Has Unique Ideas About a Mans
Privileges.
Takes No Interest in woman's Clubs,
and Does Not Think Mar
riage a Failure.

There is an odd little woman up town
who was unfortunate enough to fall in
love with her own husband two or three
years ago, when she married him, and is
old-lashioned enough to keep up the
foolishness still. She has unique ideas
about a mans rights and privileges-act-
ually thinks he ought TO be made COM
Portable in his home, have few hooks to
hang his things in the closet, and a place
to keep his blacking-box somewhere be-
sides out in the back yard. Her latest
queer freak, says the New York san, is
( to take the very coy little room that any
woman of sense would want for a sewing
room and fix it all up for him for a smok-
/ ing-room. The walls are paneled in
smoked gray and crimson, the tTieze has
q decoration of sleepy loves floating in
clouds OF smoke, and the pictures are
dainty, bright little French water-colors,
etchings OF fair women and studies Of the
sea in all its phases, simply because he
likes sea views. In one corner IS a pecui-
| lar decoration of East Indian spears radi-
ating from a common center and fastened
against the wall.
over the grate, where the glowing Goals
are tended more faithfully than ever
vestal virgins guarded the sacred fire. is
a cabinet filled with pipes and daggers
and all manner of troublesome things
that a man ought not to be allowed to col
! lect and litter a home with for some one
to dust. The floor is covered with q huge
bearskin rug, and on the floor draped
with a curious bit of Eastern stuff, is
hung a either, with pendant swaying
I balls, that ring out Sweetly when the
door moves on its hinges. All across one
side the room is a wonderful divan, COW
| cred with a cashmere rug. The divan is
! broad and luxurious, not one of the stiff
little boX-li<e affairs seen in the modern
drawing room.
And at either end and all along the
sides are piled big downy pillows of every
tint and hue. There are Turkish pillows
OF gay striped silk, laced down the center
with tasseled cords; pillows covered with
yellow cigar ribbons feather-stitched in
crazy patterns; gay silk kerchiefs that
would make q black nanny pale with
envy fitted into covers for the downies,
and a whole family of miscellaneous
cushions Of plush and silk, embroidered
and plain; round pillows and square ones,
everything except rough, scratchy APP
pliques of metallic threads or stiff ma
terials. At the head Of this couch is gas
Jet that you light. and eXtinguish by
touching a little chain; beneath it a re-
yolSiLg table, Uttered with all the para
tfiINA
filled with late magazines, new books
and papers below. Beside the couch on
the floor is a pile of cushions in crimson
plush, just high enough to bring the face
of the woman who sits there on level
with the eyes ofthe man who lounges in
the comfortable retreat.
And the reward she gets? Just what
she might expect. That stupid man stays
home from the club, and forgets all about
the business that other men always have
TO attend to evenings, and expects the
foolish woman 10 waste her time sitting
on those cushions, where he can see the
glow of the freight, or whatever it is
that makes her eyes so bright and lumin-
Gus, shining over her face while she reads
TO him. 1t is perfectly discouraging to
see her waste her time like that. You
can't drag her out to woman's club or
! interest her in the condition of the
Katfirs, and as for the question of marri-
age being a failure, and the management
Of husbands and the rest of the great and
vital things which women are discussing.
she obstinately refuses to take any inter
est in them because she is too busy, and
thinks that if every woman keeps her
own marriage from being a failure, and
manages her own husband, she has too
much on her hands to have time to run
about talking it over with the other
women.