The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-31
BRUTE OF A MAN TALKS.
OBJECTS TO THE IDEA OF A TAX
ON BACHELORS
Says co-Education Has Taken Away
the AHurine Charm of Woman-They
Are Shown to Be Cross When Tired,
and With Tempers Just Like Other
Human Beings.


Recently, a man of experience and
excellent judgment objected, in print,
to Prof. Halls advocacy of a tax on
bachelors.
This man gave some indisputable
reasons why bachelors should not be
taxed on account of their freedom from
nuptial obligations, saying in answer to
Prof. Halls admission that co-educa-
tion is largely responsible for 'tmatri-
.monys decline" in popularity:
why, then should bachelors be pc
nalized because co-education has rub
bed little of the bloom off the ideal
girl by 'incessant contact"
He then continued
But the professor is on the track.
The trouble is that the women are too
prevalent.
I'm the good old days you could not
get close enough to girl to find out
what she made of, so to speak. She
yelled herself in alluring mystery, and
never came out of 1t until she was
carefully made up Intellectually as
well as physically
Lie III those udyS was like d sum
mer hotel, where the girls are not Wis
ible until they are dressed for dinner
In the daytime they keep to their
rooms, lying around Gas we have dis
covered since we were married) in ugly
negligees with their hair in curl pa
pers, their faces covered with creams
their hands in kid gloves soaked in
lglycerine and swearing and quarreling-
ali
secluSion.
when they make their appearance
on the veranda where we men are, they
are distractingly attired in faultless
muslin and ravishing ribbons, their hair
is fresh and full of love curls, they
wear dainty little patent leather shoes
instead of bath slippers, their faces are
blooming and soft with velvet powder.
and you would never dream they had
temper the size of a mans head among
them. No wonder they landed us, in
the good old days!
But nowadays, when they are with
us from our earliest hours in the school
room as our competitors and we see
them cross and tired and with shining
noses and soiled shirt waists, and
learn that they are merely human,
fleet that these are our angels for
whose smiles we ought to be glad to
contract to keep them in food, lodging
and clothes their whole lives long.
Woman, in a word, is life's greatest
blessing, when we don't see too much
of her. And are the bachelors respon-
sible for the fact that she let's us see
too much of her? No. Then why
cho ho
Women are too prevalent" nova
days, where men are naturally preva-
lent.
There was a time when woman be-
neved man was what he seemed.
She met him on the veranda spick-,
and-span, his clothes sedulously ad-
justed and his hair delicately fragrant
from BARRIERS recent manipulations,
his face clean and his eyes sparkling
with vanity his voice sweetly 1nodu-
lated, and his words chosen with the
nicely of taste and made fairly redo
lent with lovely sentiment.
Those were good, old days when the
woman didn't see so much of men that
she'knew them as they were-when she
didn't see too much of them.
NOWJ dSSOCldl6u Will men III 6QuCd-'
ton, in business, everywhere she goes
she sees them disheveled in offices,
tousled of tresses, with smudges on
their faces, suspenders dragging from
their shoulders and sleeves rolled up
just ordinary human creatures, with all
the illusion of appearance rubbed off!
She sees man just as he sees her
with all the illusion rubbed off by the
common happenings of workshops and
offices.
Admitting that the bachelor is less
inclined to marry as a consequence of
''incessant contact"-also be sure he
doesn't find it as easy to become the
husband of a woman with sterling in
tellect and a heart that throbs loyal
response to genuine fidelity.
The wife that's worth having is hard
er to get than she was a few years
ago. The sterling woman is just as
numerous as ever-but she encourages
the bachelor to remain bachelor be-
cause she sees too much of him.
Miss Paine on Winona Normal Faculty.