The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-08-11
MEN NOT WANTED.
BACHELOR GIRL. PROTESTS
AGAINST ENTERTAINING:
Chance Visitors Are Bores-The Woman
Who Works All Day Refuses to Be
Conventionally Feminine without Good
Reasons for 1t. a

Devote my evenings to entertaining
tnen?" frowned the bachelor, a woman,
according to the New York Press.
''Never again! Our mothers did that.
It was q matter OF getting a man or
remaining an old maid; which was
equivalent to being 6stracized: The
poor dears had no choice. Everything
was as the. men said then" Inc
bachelor, a woman, yawned. But
the idea that a woman has to
marry, anyway, Ia passe. II she works
she can do as she pleases. | suppose
evefy W5mah 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 a man-just
any MANN the evening"" further ex-
~postulateA the bachelor, a m "Of
course, everybody keeps One night a
week when she sees persons, and for
that she changes her frock and tries
to be agreeable. And that evening is
enjoyable. Your woman friends help
you, and it cannot be so slow, no mat
ter how dull the men are. But to put
on ones pretties every evening, to hold
herself In readiness to play the piano,
sing the latest songs or some classic,
according to the refinement of the
chance visitor; to bother to think up
topics to consider in t~ete-a-tete with a
man whom there is no advantage in
pleasing, Is something l hope never to
co again. Why should /? Men say
the women must entertain men be-
u they have been working hard
all day. So have the women, many
Of us. When my daily task is accom-
plished 1 myself want to be pleased.
Either | wish to go to a theater or take
off my frock, tumble into a 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-preserva-
ti6I; | see no more use in throwing
away an evening than a a does.
With women friends you car discuss
any subject that interests you. You
nave not to consider the conventional
tiles. You can be yourself and talk in
an animated way, and it is good for
you. Let a man come into the room
and the entire atmosphere changes in
a moment. The subject of converse
ton probably will have to be reversed
in a twinkling. 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 a shocked fashion you
thought women are no longer rivals.
Among themselves, socially, maybe
they are not. And they have thought
it all out why they should not be ri
walls when there is a man around. But
we act automatically, the way a snake
, or some other such, thing does with its
head off. The presence of an insignifi-
cant snip of a man can change the en-
tire good feeling of a company Of 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 | invited one of my
women lTleHuS TO come TO my house
on a certain evening. She looked un
happy as a result. Going to have any
mem she inquired?' No l said. AnC
then she frightened, saying she would
come. L am too tired to talk with
men after dinner she explained. Then
the bachelor, a woman, said she die
not think it a'commendable. state. thi.
after-dinner Indifference Of ONE tt
men in general. 1t is precisely thu
4 s%elfshness for which we have blamed
the men, since we began to think about
it. On the whole, l am afraid womer
are getting very manly" continued thu
woman, a bachelor, putting on hel
gloves for her daily exercise at thu
striking-bag. After half a dozen round.
she smiled sweetly and said that wo.
mems unwillingness to entertain mas.
culine callers must not be taken toe
seriously. II suppose we're only deat
tired
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