The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-03-25

easily, naturally and comfortably. and her
audience also relaxed. They aid not cease to
look earnest but they fell into more easy stti-
tudes, and the severe set Of their features
| seemed to soften
Mira Armstrong: II shsn't 90 over ny own
life from the beginning because II would be
| very much = repetition Of what Maria has told
ua Only In my case IL was music teacher in-
stead Of an slocution teacher. My poor mother.
she tried to be so CAREFUL Poor old Koopman
| was forty-nve years old and 1--WE feet Ave In his
boots. but It didn't make any difference. MY
maiden fancy was waiting for him. and lived
| from lesson to lesson. since then I've been In
love. or attracted by. or interested in, or what
ever you choose to call It. with dozen differ
ant manly objects: big. little. ugly. beautiful,
0eniuses. dudes. peers. m Mechanics: with what
| ever happen ed to meet that was not person.
ally or mentally distssteful to me- And
agree with Maria; think It's perfect
~ horrid. and I want to get out OF
IL And yet do you know. l have al
ways regarded the situation with sort Of
content tuous philosophy. Ihave said to my
self when was archy putting my best silk
| stockings for the chiropodist, or my most be-
coming dressing gown for the doctor. 1t Isn't
really you that 10 doing these paltry things;
you love your husband and your children. and
practically you are going to keep on doing
your duty like q respectable woman. These
wanton impulses are nothing but imperfect
little survivals Of old conditions. like the ca
nins tse,b ~ IN. horse when a voman's life
ana ber ohildren,s demanded upon pl.oatinR
and pleasing her master. Don't pay too much
attention to them. let them wear themselves
out. But like Maria. confess that didn't
arrive at these Speneerian ideas until after
was thirty"
The beautiful Mrs. Frerton: DO you really
think that We think 40 much more about msn
than they think about us2"
| Roth Mrs Harding and Mr.. Armstrong
burst into hearty. affeotionat. laughter.
Mrs. Armstrone, Eleanor looks so worried
vhen abe saya thati No. in your casa don't
bslieve II would be pbssible for ron to think
more about them than they do about ron. I
think that beauty like yours Neliy. IN iust the
thing to inspire men with a tender interest in
Won ON the m ost casual glance. the same sort OF
vague sentim entslity that W. lazy women are
| ready to feel about most men, whether they
| are beautiful or not haven't any doubt that
ali the clark I'm the shops You 10 to feel about
you aa Maria and feel about the carpenter"
Mrs Egerton: Please don't say that, you
make mi feel so common"
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and srdently interest our minds outside Of
love and m arriage and the rest Of II. to keep
us wholesome know that busy men do not
waste SO much thought and Mandy pamby
| emotion upon OF course whore they are in
love. they are In love. and then IL IL . tremen-
| dous affair with them. and there is Q type OF
men who take women as women take men.
| sensitively. Accordingly: but generally speak
| ing. nice. Interesting men have too many other
| sngrossing things to think about to let their
| brains philander through all the hours OF the
| twenty-four. They are keen about their legal
| cases. or anxious about their patients. or
| stocks. and then they have got politics"
Mira Egsrtop: DO you think politics Is
| going to help us7"
Mrs Armstrong: II am inclined to think II
Ia At least it 10 going to DO one factor. and the
one that will particularly help women Of our
| class the leisure class. I know that study
isn't . cure for I've tried that. not as q means.
but because liked It and had so much time.
Besides. study doesn't conduee to activity. but
rather to neryous i'm pressionabllity. haven't