The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31
or the Women.


"A man is nothing but brute.,' said
The Young Matron. apropos, apparently
Sf nothing as men hadn't been mention
ed.
You are in luck not having hus-
band"
still you were just as fortunate once
and 1 notice you didn't choose to remain
So" replied the Oracle. But what's the
matter now? What has Tom been do
ing?"
Don't you think" said the Young
hatron plaintively. that a man is a
brute who will smoke a pipe on his
wedding anniversary
We'll" the Oracle began tentatively,
you know L don't mind pipes-in fact
rather like them"
We'll don't snapped the Y. NJ.
and 1 think Tom might keep his old
pipe out OF sight on our anniversary
anyway. don't object to tobacco-1t
keeps a man good natured-but want
him to smoke cigar. l hate nasty,
Vile, ul-smelling pipe and he knows
do. Why will he persist in smoking oneZ
He says it's just a foolish notion of mine
but it isn't. Not that I object to the
pipe so much. What l care about is his
not wanting to please me- It's the idea
of the thing. I'd do anything Tor MN
and before we were married.
There now! That will be about all
from you" interrupted the Oracle
There's nothing get so tired of IN my
Side Talks With Injured Wives as that
comparison of before and after taking
Woman, what did you expect? Hadn't
YOU heard the difference between court
ship and marriage harped upon ever
since your infancy? have. l know
very little about men'-the Oracle'S ad-
mission that she knew very little about
any subject was enough to make the Y.
NJ gasp-"but I've always known that
one couldn't expect the love-making to
keep up forever If should ever marry
don't look so skeptical; it's not polite
1 shouldn't have any illusions on that
score They were knocked out of me
long ago by the confessions and COM
plants of my married friends. l near
the same thing from all of them: their
husbands no longer kiss them goodbye
when they go to work in the morning;
they don't pay them compliments: they
want to go to the club IN the evenings:
they are willing to take trips without
them and when they go home they sit
around and read the papers and never
speak a word 1t is every married wom-
ans private grievance against Things as
They Are that marriage spolls an ideal
lover to make an Indifferent husband
but why is it," exclaimed the =. NJ.
in tears.
"A woman doesn't change"
Doesn't she?" returned the Oracle.
ST don't know about that. She seems
to feel the change more than man
L
ent herself. Isn't the average married
woman more animated. amusing and
agreeable with the people she doesn't
see every day than she is with her
huSband2 They sit at home together
moody. Indifferent bored and silent, but
if a chance caller drops in how she
changes. 1t acts like an elixir uDon
her. If the caller Is a man she likes
she is as radiant and brilliant as she
was when she was bud. Now EEL
me, you talk so much about the differ
ence between the lover and the hus-
band: when you buy new gown. now
is it to please Tom or to please other
people2 Oh. of course, I know you
consult his taste and respect his dis
like for black, but if there were no one
but your husband to think of 1 doubt
if you WOULD get new gown once
year-you would SO much rather buy
things for your house. You don't dress
to please him as you once did, but
merely to satisfy the demands of your
friends
We'll, if it's true that I don't pay
as much attention to dress as I did"
rejoined the Y M, Its because Tom
doesn't care how look. He never no.
tees what have on. He's always
praising other women's clothes in a
buy anything decent with all the money
1 spend. That's a husband for vou''
L guess you're right" asserted the
Oracle. You ought to know, and that
among those who've caught 'em. sup
peSe we haven't so much to regret after
alive unclaimed blessings.
Il used to know an old maid who was
said to have been disappointed in love
when young. Popular tradition attrib-
uted to this circumstance the fact that
she had never married and was of some
acidity of temperament But 1 always
rather fancied her. personally. 1 used
70 so there a good deal and saw with
out especially noticing it an old-fash-
Toned photograph of a rather pretty
girl which hung just above her writing
desk. One day l asked her who it
might be.
" That?' she said, pausing with her
hair brush poised in air. Why that's
my substitute-not that I appointed her
OF was especially pleased to have her
take my place. But that was long ago
and time changes our point of view
sometimes. To tell you the truth she
was my successful rival and once L hid
her picture away and wished never to
set eyes upon it again. But wien years
later came across it accidentally
among some forgotten BELONGINGS
2 whimsical fancy possessed me. had
II framed and it has hung there ever
since. When the fancy was new and I
was young enough to enjoy private the
atricals I burned incense before it and
returned daily thanks for all the pain