The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-06-15
THE COURIER.

lect your beau. Penelope. ct your age
when / know We are apt to be moro
gracious to suitors than when our cheeks
were June roses and our eyes were lures.
(Old ladies always say they we're hours
in their youth. Then il We dismissed
| beau there were several more just be-
hind him only waiting for him to get out
of the way. Then, Penelope, then we
were never without beau or the i'm.
mediate prospect Of one or more. But
realize now, dear. that when l advise
you to run the risk Of losing your pres
emit aide-de- camp I am practically con-
demning you to cursed life OF single.
ness. For celibacy is not blessed and l
will not call it 90 even in fun. 1t is bet.
ter to be married to just an ordinary man
like Jack, than not to be married at all.
Because although men have their faults.
as we'll az women, they are not the same
10 kind or degree that women are sea.
soned with. A woman cut of from all
but the most formal association with
man grows more and more feminine.
She grows fussy and things get on her
nerves that il che were married would
not trouble her. My development Of
Christian graces since my marriage is
due to the discipline of living with Jack
and learning not to be disguised with
the sight and smell Of cuspidors. news
papers on the floor and trsnsposed pipes
in homogeneous places. ! have observed
that even neat men have no sense Of the
homogeneous. irrelevant and irregular,
when the thing objected to is q pipe.
Even uxorious husbands reproach wife
with business when that little black
thing that looks like musical note, but
is oftener the leit-motif in very ur-
musical discord, is the subject Of discus
sion. Nevertheless, Penelope, would
rather be stupid me. ridiculed of Jack,
me, with the odor of stale tobacco ever
in my nostrils and clinging to my lace
curtains like persistent kitten. than
spinster. however brilliant, cultured,
and CONNIE ellie faut. This is decidedly
not CONNIE il faut: exulting in the pub
lie prints over my own counubial dis
cipline and evoluted character and con.
doing with you for not having even as
much Of prize az Jack to dust. mend,
and keep the flies and moths off of. l
have wandered as all married women do
from any given point back to their hus-
bands. That lie one thing an old maid
should be thankful for: she can still de.
vote her attention to oae subject long
enough to get fairly comprehensive
view Of it. Whereas married woman's
mind is 30 full Of the faults and virtues
of "Him" that lucid discussion OF any.
thing else lie out of the question. l
started to say that whatever and who
ever you neglect. do not neglect me and
The Courier.
A friend informs me that at a late
meeting OF The Round Table the new
woman was discussed. Nobody knows
exactly what the pew woman lie. Prob
ably no two men present could have
agreed upon definition Of her. But
most men who do not approve Of the N.
w. have a mental image Of a disputa-
tious, noisy, clamorous woman there
cannot be too many noisy words to ade-
quately express their abomination) wo-
man who dislikes children and prefers
the vocation of an suctioneer or of a
prosecuting attorney to any other. II
there are no vacancies the abominstion
would accept position as depot-pss-
senper director or failing that, any sort