Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-03
MANAGING A WOMAN.
A Few Hints to the So-caIled Lords of
Creation.

NredtfOns
I wonder if a man ever really fiatters
himself that he knows how to manage
pretty woman. asks a correspond
ent of the Pittsburg Dispatch. OF
oourse,N. he may think he does, but
there are times when she will shy Oft |
and it will need an extremely clever
whip to guide her into the beaten
track again, and the man who is wise
should remember always as an initial,
Welcomed lessen:
Never allow a pretty woman to score
the first victory, or she will tyranniZe
over him until he relapses into state
of abject helplessness, from which
there will be no awakening.
Don't mind her tears. Tears make
woman's eyes more beautiful. Let
them splish- plash all over you both.
The most violent shower often benefits
the flowers, and to change the meta
phor the man who does not come out
of the first clash of arms, in arms
with the arms at rest, or around the
rest-nlight as well give up the battle
and retreat with as much dignity and
courage as he can gather after the
| fray.
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very few of them will stand being
managed" and the man who thinks
he can command "'tention," right
'front.' or 'left front" or forward,
march," will find that the woman will
not march, no matter how loud the
band begins to play.
Now, 1 do not pretend to give any
sure-cure prescriptions, guaranteed
against failure, from the fact that not
being q pretty woman, l have never
been managed" and not being a man,
have never been called upon to do the
managing" besides, every man
knows that a pretty woman can give
an old-fashioned mule cards and
spades in the kicking art, and win out
in every trick of the game.
There are pretty wonderland pretty
women. A pretty woman is often
J juggled or hypnotized into constant
sub consciousness of her own comeli-
ness. She imagines that her senses
should be stepped in the delicious in
toxcaton of abject Difference to her
every whim, until she becomes like a
heavy pack that one attempts to carry
up hill.
Now, the masculine temperament
signs for a large and copious share of
this same Difference itself, and when it
becomes q question of giving all, ir-
respective of returns, the masculine
creature is prone to wander to other
pastures, where a more liberal prov
= ender of smiles and adulation caters
to his cravings.
When it comes to the actual ques-
ton of managing a woman, a man is
often the veriest coward on earth. and
is sometimes managed most beautiful
ly while puzzled over the mystery of
his own inability as a manager.
A man may be a living epitome of
nerve and courage under ordinary
conditions, but when confronted by a
woman arrayed in all the terrors of
her war paint, he simply quakes until
he could not face a circus lemonade.
= The masculine quality that most sure
ly and quickly vanquishes a woman is
| his strength, in which she always
glories, whether it be physical or men
| tai.
The fact is, the woman absolutely
bankers to be managed, and if the man
has common sense he has only to dis
play his strength in the beginning. a
man Of splendid physique, emphasized
by 4 certain self-assertive manner, can
weight down his belt with feminine
scalpS enough to decorate a hairdreSs-
| ers window. His glance challenges adj
miration, a prolonged stare hypnotizes,
and the pretty woman-queen though
tshe be-becomes an abject liege when
the rowing giant chances to throw
tender glances her way. He need not
| display his superior strength by any
pugilstic attitudinizing-the very force
of his personality wins for him an easy
victory.
But the strength of handsome, mas
sive masculinity is not the only sort
that appeals to the pretty woman.
Mental strength animating dwarfed
body is often endowed with the same
potential influence.
A man who is a woman's physical
superior should be able to overawe
her by simply looking down at her in a
manner that means business, and the
| manly man who is strong of purpose
and firm of character need fear no re-
bellion. The man who, through his
- fear of woman's whims, vacillates in
his desire to please her might as well
throw up the sponge and quit the game
first as last.
Some pretty women whom I have
known ought to be managed by GOOD
old fashioned spanking, and while not
exactly approving this method, there
have been times when | fairly ached tc
administer a little strenuosity on my
own account. being convinced that this
lsame old-fashioned spanking, judic-
iously administered, should be le-
igalized
Generally speaking, a pretty woman
is the most selfish specimen in Nature
museum. She never considers any
thing or anybody but herself and this
inordinate selfishness is the evil genius
that stimulates Cor vitalizes) her ca
prices. There are several ways OF
managing her, provided she has not
scored so many victories as to feel en-
couraged to defy all masculine re-
sources.
A man is often too concilliatory for
| the sake of peace abandoning the
| +ropchae, nn1 beat ting n retreat. In