The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-01-21
MANS COLUMN.
[coNDuorED BY COG AND MAeoG.


Yes, yes, gentlemen, California, the
Golden state. was emphstically mans
new paradise. 1t was first settled, as
you can easily recall, by men-priests,
not by pilgrims and puritans, composed
of men and petticoats like the barren
east coast. All, ali Idyllic times those,
30 different from these times. Then
our sex ruled not only supreme, but
alone, as did Adam in Eden before God
made the woman. What mistake was
there. my countrymenl And what an
other was made when into the new
Eden the woman was allowed to enter,
even with her petticoat. Here we might
have continued to live out our day in
peace, lord of all we surveyed, smoking
ad libitum, and eating and sleeping
when we could no longer smoke, but for
the woman. Alack that that woman,
which God made out of poor Adams rib,
and her descendants, are also credulous,
30 easily betrayed, so fallible. And the
bother of it all is that when we try to
keep her down. relegate her to her right
full place, she will raise cain.
But there was one mistake which
Adam himself, though as rule infal-
lible, made, and that was, he would
stick to Eve in spite of the fact that she
WAS silly goose led sstray by some
quack; would cling to her like fellow
We read about in our press:
~ would not be my lsdy's glove
Thus lightly TO b cast aside:
Her bonnet or her gown, fol- love
Like mine wou a nearer her abide.
And yet would not clio Ter p esi
so cloie.y that she mus demur;
But, oh, I'd be her bathing dress,
And cling,
And cling,
We no longer think it wise to stick to
any one wonan-ior any length of
time-unless it pays good round divil
dend in come shape. Just what worthy
man, or men, set that example has not
yet been properly investigated. Right
here pardon a moment OF looking back
ward" of personal "reminiscences. Sad
to relate, gentlemen, have not the
honor 10 be California born. Yet like
your ways 80 well that am catching on
TO your customs and already consider
myself true.blue Californian. Only |
lately have been considering the FEAST
biity OF obtaining a divorce so az to be |
able to catch on to brand new petticoat.
On the whole that mode OF procedure
seems the fittest, more so than deser-
ton, where draggletail is PIT TO the ex-
pense and inconvenience of obtaining
separation papers from her fleeing lord. |
10 60 on with my story OF a dozen
years agone, when l first reached Los
Angeles and had been thinking ss |
looked over the country, another grand
opportunity Ter man." just how it
came to pass | cannot tell. but brought
with me the old English love of home,
and no sooner had | recuperated bit
than began looking about and consid-
erng how | might purchase something
81 that nature in this ideal, home LOOK
ing country. As my means were small
1 fell to pricing inexpensive houses and
lots. | think it was the very first house
1t which knocked that | was hidden to
snter in tones that might have come
rom the neither regions, SO pitiiul, bo
orlorn, almost a wall were they. AT
1rst forgot my errand in my surprise
It the thin, gaunt figure standing totter-
ngly before me. Why" burst out.
4 have seat--don't stand q moment
OF me call your attention-youf hus-
land. You look so very ill., /" This
iurriedly said because il ia my nature
p take great interest In oiner mons
Tiyesi and VIII q } myseii the justcs