The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-19

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TIE SALT LAX
not long ago in one of. the monthly
magazines, and which comes just a
| trifIe nearer to an exclamation than
was vouchsafed in the pronouncement
! given by the young lady already men
toned Perhaps, after all, 1t may not
be sufficiently explicit as advice, but
it is pretty good poetry, and so l shall
quote it here for the benefit of the
general public, who may not already
have perused it:
Shepherd, wilt thou take counsel of the
That oft hath hearkn'd. from this leafy
lair,
Sue not so humbly to the naughty fair
Pipe, in her praise, upon thine oaten
And pipe the louder when she says thee
Swear that her lightest wish to thee is
But break the law twice twenty times
a day.
Trust not to argument or thou'rt un-
But calmly. gently, when she doth pro-
Her course is east, impel her to the
west;
Approve her way, but lead her in thine
II.
For learn, fond youth, would'st thou
escape disaster
That woman likes a slave-but loves
master"
AS to the second way recommended
by the lady, that certainly seems much
more feasible than the other, and more
obviously oOen to the inexperienced
person; FOR any one can make slave
of himself to anyone else, and can
study the other persons WhimS, and at
tempt, at any rate, to crafty the other
persons fancies. But there is GER
tain amount of incomOleteneSs about
this theory, also; for if man makes
himself o woman's slave and dances
attendance upon her, and gives up his
will to hers. it would strike the aver
age outsider that, instead of his man.
aging her. she was rather VIGOROUSLY
managing him. So l am inclined to
think that the young woman who i'm
parted this particular piece of infor-
nation was insoir = by something of
the Seroent'S WiSdC.n. No doubt she
knew Just how a woman might be
managed, but no doubt, also, she was
going to keep her secret to herself.
The only other suggestion on this
subject was afforded by very wise
and peESpicaciouS man of 40 who has
spent about half of his life in expert
menting. with various solutions to this
pIODieIu- w men TIE QuCSlIOLl WIS put
to him, he grinned amiably and took
up his parable as follows:
The real way to manage a woman
is by deluding her into the belief that
she is managing you. There is moth
ing that ticllles the vanity of a woman
quite so much as this-to have man
whom she can respect, and in many
ways admire, apparently paying the
greatest Difference to her opinions and
l,ar -icIa 10 1nJ, 10Y G
and makes her feel that she is of great
Importance in his, life; for true wo-
mans life is to find herself reflected in
the life of a man whom she really
loves. But no man who is worth his
salt would really let a woman manage
him, nor if she really managed him
would she have serious respect for
him. The first thing for man to do,
therefore. is TO Undue her with the
notion that he is a tremendously diff
ficult and almost impossible sort of
person who would, if left to himself,
break out in all sorts of violent and
unreasonable ways without any regard
to anybody-the sort of man who or
dinarily could be controlled by scarcely
short of a regiment of SOL
diers and rapid-fire gun. Then the
man, who is in reality perfectly reas-
enable person, and hasn't the slightest j
desire to break out in any way what
ever, must let the woman feel that it is !
only her restraining influence /
that holds him back from smash /
ing everything to pieces, and he must
seem to be rather reluctant to accept !
a single one of her suggestions or to
meet the slightest of her wishes, but !
should make her feel that it is the in !
tensity of her fascination and his Won
derful devotion to her that in the end |!
induce him to comply. In this way he i
will again and again, of course, make {
any number of concessions to her, and I
will, at her request, refrain from doing (
many things; but they will always be |
the things that he never wanted to do /.
anyhow; and she will be so charmed at /
his magnanimity and so fiattered by /
the thought that she has in any way
controlled him, that she will make no /
to all the other things which /
he really desires to do; ard on her :
part and as sort of compensation
for the sacrifices that he makes, she i
will do almost anything for him. Thus,
ne will in reality live his own life pre-
cisely as he wishes to, and she will be |
devoted to him and will /
always have a dear little fluttery feel
ng, as of one who is leading some
ierocious beast by ribbon, delighted r
,or the moment at its tamenesS, and
anxiously intent on keeping it in the
pest of humors."
This is what he said Perhaps, in
Iced, this is a comment and an ex-
1lanation both of what the young lady
meant and Of what the poet had in
mind when he composed his verses;
or this method seems to combine the
'ther two in very judicious and sat
sfactory way However, as I said
tbove, [ know nothing about the thing
myself; and should anybody see fit to /.
make any experiments on the basis of
what I have here written, he must do
at his own risk and must not write
my plaintive letters to me if he finds
hat the result is destructive to his
,eace of mind.
RAFFORD PIXIE.
Two Revenue STAMPS.