Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-10

on Incn. TOO, isn't IL just ike a man to
ask for kiss? Men never seem to learn
that IL you want a kiss you must take 1t
and say nothing. A girl is in duty bound
to refuse IL she's asked. but If she isn't
asked-well. she gets the kiss, and her
conscience is perfectly clear. No woman
ever yet honestly resented kiss"
Power of Mrs. Grundy.
There was an cutlery of establishment at
this heresy, but Mrs. de Steele insisted on
her point.
You know I'm right. every one of you."
she said, but you're all SO afraid Of Mrs.
Grundy you daren't admit it."
''Of course we're afraid of Mrs. GrlnGy,"
said the woman in the bluet hat. Mrs.
Grumpy is great power, and 1t is just as
silly for woman to defy her as it would
be to go out and defy train of cars. In
both cases the woman would be crushed.
Mother Goose has the average woman in
one of her poems. You remember. don't
you? It's the old woman who went to
market and fell asleep the way home.
peddler cut off her petticoats and the
old woman actually doubted her identity.
She decided, however, to so home and see
If her dog would know her.
" Home went the little woman all in the
Up got the little dog and he began to bark
He began to bark, and she began to cry,
" Lauk-a-nercy on me, this is none Of IT.
That simply goes to show the lengths
Grundy worship may be carried. 10 the
average woman whatever is conventional
Is right She measures everything by
conventional standard, and when thrown
suddenly into a strange position she is ut
terly at sea. She can't imagine herself
outside her customary surroundings. She
doubts her identity. She is not adaptable"
Yes" interrupted Miss Pension Bureau,
out all that applies just as much to men
as to women. Men are conventional in
everything-even their vices. A MAXWELL,
II there's anything silly it is the way men
treat Just imagine woman taking six
glasses OF ice-cream soda just because half
dozen women she knows happen to be
together And yet If that many men go
into saloon, IL one buys drinks for the
crowd. everybody else does. too. That's
just because it's conventional. For my
part, l think six glasses of ice-cream soda
would be far less injurious than six glasses
OF whisky. For abject terror of Mrs.
Grundy commend me to man."
My verse is about misunderstood ge-
MUS, said the woman, in the tailor-made
gown, as she surreptitiously lifted her skirt
over the knees to keep it from bagging.
" Little Polly Flinders sat among the
cinders,
Warming her pretty little toes;
Her mother came and caught her.
And whipped her little daughter,
For spelling her nice, new clothes
There sits the poet, or painter, or inven-
tor, wrapped in thought, oblivious to his
surroundings. And there comes his practi-
cal, commonplace family, and because he
has not been doing something which the
world recognizes as of practical USE and
because he has not had a keen eye for his
own material advancement, he is soundly
berated. The verse might stand for Socra-
ties and Xantippe.'
Married to a Genius.
Yes, but don't you think there's some
thing to be said for Xantippe?" asked the
advanced woman from a divan. 1.-The lives
Of wives of men of genius are tragic. The
-nrlI haa
does not hear of the ruin he brought to his
wife's happiness. Xantippe, / dare say.
had to endure Socrates ways till it warped
her disposition. Fancy having a husband
who could never be counted on to be on
time at dinner. Fancy years of cold soup
content woman with seeing her children
the snabbiest in the neighborhood nor will
1t make her forget the darned spot in the
parlor carpet, or the rent in the last good
table cloth. Men of genius are beautiful
things They make life more worth living
to those who come after them, but they're
the last people on earth one cares to have
in ones family
Men of genius ought not to marry" sug-
gested the Congressmans Wife
I'm glad we've worked around to the
inevitable marriage question" remarked
the motherly looking woman in the rocking
chair, for my poem this afternoon is on
the subject of married women as wage
earners.
I'll tell You what twas all about.
had monsy, and he had none,
And that's the way the noise begun
Now, the family can have but one head.
The wage-earner is that head. The mar
ried woman who goes into business Is at
tempting to give her family two heads, and
that means endless dissension and discord.
Nothing lowers a man so much in his own
estimation, nothing robs him so much of his
manhood, the fact that his wife is in
business. He gradually let's CO. loses am
bltion, and the woman who begins by par
TALLY supporting the family, will end by
finding she has the whole family and her
husband to boot to support 1t upsets the
entire economy CT our social system when
married woman goes into business The
married woman's place Is in the home and
when she leaves 1T for business she is an
well, she's a colossal mistake"
Il don't agree with you at ALL" said the
advanced woman. Il think a woman ought
to be ashamed to let her husband support
her; but I'm not going to stop to discuss
it here. I'm to read a paper on the subject
before our lyceum tomorrow night, and /
invite you all to hear it. It's one of the
questions of the day"
We'll, If 1t is,' whispered Mrs. de Steele
to the tailor-made woman, I'm not going
to run about nights to hear it answered"
Did you ever hear of anybody whose
views were changed by a discussion" ask
ed the woman with past. IF a woman
thinks a thing, she thinks it, and that's all
there is to it,"
Yes, but it's just the same with men,"
began Miss Pension Bureau, but the meet
ing had already adjourned.