The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-18

opatra He wooed her, but it was Octa-
via he married.
Men may amuse themselves with crea-
| lures of the Phryne type. but where IS
he who would ackno gIedge that he
would select her for the mother of his
children? Love and animal attraction art
distinct. So are playthings and realities.
II seems to me that civilization has
taught us among other excellent things
that mans ideal, his wife, of course,
should be companionable If he is de-
generate he viii probably go where he
finds himself most at home. Such man
viii seek his own Ievel-the lowest. 1
| am told this stratum has been pictured
latterly in 'Sappho' and The Degener-
ates. The man who went to see 'Sappho'
was not family man He did not take
his wife or his daughter"
Mrs Dore lyon: The world, alas! is
made up of many men Of many minds.
There are some. indeed, who admire an
gels only theoretically. The devils they
love terribly. This would seem to give
all sorts of women a chance. Even the
average man, however, must realize that
moral woman. He never goes out delib-
erately to WOO her. If he falls a slave
TO her destinations, he mas been uncon-
sciously ensnared. Immoral women may
have variety of charms and an assort-
ment Of accomplishments. Every man is
not proof against them There are those.
indeed who believe that scars may be eff
faced by reformation. Nine times out of
ten they may find, in the words of a pes
simistfc novelist, that this reformation
has spoiled a fine devil and makes poor
poor saint.
"A saint is popularity supposed to i'm
agine she need not have no interest in
the world but that most absorbing one
of being good. She is then not a saint,
for by making herself a bore she engend-
ers the i'll feeling of her family, who may
probably be normal beings. 1t seems to
me she may be a saint and have happy
combination of wisdom and virtue
Mrs Elizabeth Grannis "Humbug!
Mans ideal woman commands above all
his respect. If she does not, she cannot
be his ideal A good man adnires an alb
solutely chaste woman only. The other
sort fascinates him, but in a wife, unless
he is fool, he demands absolute purity.
Even the so-called fast man. the man
about town, is most jealous in praise of
the absolutely sinless woman. He has
had his good time with the other, but
when he decides TO settle down he goes
to seek a companion among pure women.
The most perfect marriages are founded
upon love. And trust is the basis of true
love. Imagine the discomfort, the agony
Of a man who may not trust the woman
who guards his hearthstone. She would
be a thorne in his side instead of a jewel
in his crown. All the accomplishments
in the world will not make I'D for the
faint of one backward step.
An immoral woman may amuse, but
when man seeks a>wife he seeks some
thing more than a mere toy
Mrs Albert Bage: 1.-THE ideal woman
today, mans ideal woman, is intensely
alive, alert, up to date, both mentally and
physically. There was a time when she
was a rarity. Today, by association and
cultivation, she has become an ordinary
type.
1T has been said that a man that's
married is a man that's married. In nine
cases out of ten it's the woman. She
seems to think that, once having saught
her hare, she may be as unattractive as
she pleases. 1t never seems to occur to
her that he may jump out of the bag.
But this is a matter aside and belongs
more properly to an essay on How to
Keep a Husband
"A man who wooes his ideal woman
fancies in her perhaps some special at
tribute or accomplishment. It is that that
makes her his ideal and his wife. If she
discards it Immediately after the mar
rage 1t should not surprise her to find
her husband lowering the steps of the
pedestal upon which he has seen fit to
place her.
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