The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-01
FOR The WOMEN.
A General Discussion Of the
Tyrant Man.
Why Wives Are so Often Dis
appointed.
NEGLIGENT HUSBANDS.
The "Oracle" Gives Her Opinion
on the Subject.
Thinks That the Men Are Not
All to Blame.
NEGLIGENT HUSBANDS

It probably began with clothes, ana II
certainly switched to gossip. but the
conversation finally got around to what,
whenever two or three Of the FEMININE
sex are gathered together, IS the para
mount issue And the youngest matron
who has not been married long enough
TO become quite accustomed TO the Va
carries of the Tyrant Nm, was the hrsl
to register her complaint; Men nave
no sentiment" she declared positively
''They think things are mere foolish
ness that make all the difference IN th7
world to a woman For example, IueS-
day was our wedding day, and now 40
you suppose Tom celebrated III! VITA
a reproachful glance toward the dlVan
where her husband smoked calmly on as
II oblivious of her criticisms.
BY forgetting it?" asked one Of the
others with the 'I-thOught-so air OIL
i've years of married life.
Not that, exactly" answered the
youngest matron, but how could he,
when I had been talking of nothing TOT
q week but the new pin 1 wanted. Make
another guess"
by bringing you the pin?" suggested
the Oracle.
Yes, he brought me the PIN" admit
ed the Youngest MatrOn, but what do
you suppose he said as he threw II IN
my laD?"
The face Of the wise one expressed d
readiness to believe anything of man,
and the others looked politely expectant
WINE TIE L. M DIOtGtAlCus
He came home for dinner. threw the
pin in my lap and said. Sis, 1 made a
date to sit in a little game at Martin )
rooms tonight. 1 hope you don't
mind "
She stopped and looked about her with
a cOuntenance that demanded whether
the world over and in all past history
any of them had ever heard anything to
equal that. while the culprit and the
Bachelor exchanged grins and the Wise
One said 20, 1 haven't a doubt of it.
That's lust like a man"
land he couldn't understand" the Y
NJ. went on with an increasing sense of
injury, why I should care. He didn
see, he said, why he should stay home on
his wedding anniversary any more than
any other time unless there was some
thing especial to stay for We hadn't
planned to go any place and weren't eX-
pecting visitors and as long as there
wasn't anything to do but just sit at
home, as he does almost every night in
the week, why, when Martin invited him
he shouldn't accept: but if I insisted and
was going to be very unhappy about it.
he would call Martin up and excuse
himself"
Did he do it ?" asked the Oracle.
do you think I'd let him2" demanded
the Y. M in high scOrn. IF he thought
80 little of the sentiment of stIch. IN
occasion, he could go to his old poker
game-I wouldn't have him stay a home
unless he wanted to be there He pre-
felt badly about it, but I made him, and
1t wasn't much trouble. He was whist
ling before he got out of the house
That man cares more for a game OF
cards than he does for his wife or his
home or anything else in the world"
Well said the Oracle. If he Offered
to STAY at home, and you wouldn't Let
him, why don't you be game and abide
by your own decisiOn?"
I'm not complaining" explained the
Y. M. earnestly. because he didn't stay
at home with me, but because he didn't
want to stay. That's what I told him.
IT'S Just as well you let him 60
said the Wise One. Il know what
they're like when you keep them against
their will. They get down behind a book
or a newspaper and you don't get q
word from them all evening. Oh.
know them. Talk about cards. I wish
my husband would play cards. I might
play with him and have his company
for little while, in that case All h.
does is to read. I get so sick of seei ne
him buried in a book that 1 wish tht
art Of printing had never been discov.
cred. He came home yesterday for the
first time in three weeks and do yor
suppose he's had time to say hal
dozen words to me? The minute he go
in he grabbed a newspaper and ht
hasn't looked up from one since excep
to clutch another. I told Dick yester
day that if I were dying and a news
boy should go along outside calling tn,