Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-05-26
MEN NOT WANTED.
BACHELOR GIRL PROTESTS
AGAINST ENTERTAINING.
Chance Visitors Arc Borcs- The Woman
Who Works All Day Refuses TO BE
COnventionaily Feminine without Good
Reasons for 1t.

Devote my evenings to entertaining
Hen?" frowned the bachelor. q woman,
according to the New York Press.
Never again! Our mothers did that.
1t was matter OF getting man or
remaining an old maid, which was
equivalent to being ostracized. The
poor dears had no choice. Everything
was as the men said then" The
bachelor, a woman, yawned. But
the idea that woman has to
marry, anyway. is passe. II she works
she can do as she pleases. suppose
every woman would rather marry than
not. but most Of us who have dared to
think about 1t would rather not marry
than engage ourselves for life to the
wrong man. Entertain man-just
any man-in the evening"" further ex-
postulated the bachelor, a woman. "Of
course. everybody keeps one night a
week when she sees persons. and for
that she changes her frock and datries
. 10 be agreeable And that evening Is
enjoyable. Your woman friends help
you. and 1t cannot, lie SO slow. no mat
Ier how dull the men are. But to put
on ones pretties every evening. to hold
herself in readiness to play the plano.
sing the latest songs or some classic.
according to the refinement OF the
chance visitor, to bother to think up
topics to consider in tete-a-tete with n
man whom there is no advantage in
pleasing. is something l hope never to
do again. Why should i? Men say
the women must entertain men be-
cause they have been working hard
all day. So have the women, many
Of us. When my daily task is accom-
plished l myself want to be pleased.
Either I wish to go to theater or take
on my frock, tumble into loose gown
and read or dream In the freight, or
chat with mother or any OF the girls
who come in. Oh. 1t is selfish. I know.
but 1t Is In line with self-prescrva-
tion. / see no more use In throwing
away an evening than a man does.
With women friends you can discuss
any subject that interests you. You
have not to consider the conventional
tiles. You can be yourself and talk in
an animated way, and, II Is good for
you. Let man come into the room
and the entire atmosphere chshres In
moment. The subject OF conversa-
tion probably will have to be reversed
In twinkiing. Then, too. from the
habit Of ages. perhaps every woman i'm
mediately becomes the enemy OF every
other and sets out to make the caller
think she is the prettiest and most
vivacious girl in the room. oh, you
need not say in n shocked fashion you
thought women are no longer rivals.
Among themselves. socially, maybe
they are not. And they have thought
1t all out why they should not be RI
walls when there is man around. Blu.
We act automatically. the way a snake
or some other such thing does with its
head on. The presence OF an insignifi-
cant snip of man can change the en-
tire good feeling OF company O; wo-
men. We do not think about them
when they are not around. but you
know the hold the habit has on you.
The other day I invited one OF my
women friends to come to my house
on certain evening. She looked un-
happy us result. Going to have any
'h'"' ohN i'iuh'u. NO, SAID. And
then she frightened. saying she would
come. I am too tired to talk with
men after dinner she explained. Then.
the bachelor. woman. said she did
not think 1t commendablc state. this
nfter-dinner indifference of women to
men In general. 1t is precisely the
seliishness for which we have blamed
the men. since we began to think about
1t. On the whole. am afraid women
are getting very manly" continued the
woman. bachelor. putting on her
gloves for her daily exercise at the
striking-bag. After half dozen rounds
she smiled sweetly and said that wo-
mems unwillingness to entertain mas.
culine callers must not be taken too
seriously. Il suppose we're only dead