The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-30
For the -
- Women.

Now when Fred comes in said the
young matron who has been married
long enough to find out that a man is
only human. don't you girls begin to
jolly and fiatter him and tell him how
Ewagger he is looking If I'd known
he would be home for luncheon I'd
never have asked you to stay because
! wanted you all to myself but he came
IN little while ago. and as soon as he
learned that you were here he sneaked
up to his room to primp and rig himself
out with view to making an impress
sion. I know you want to make YOUR
selves agreeable, and your first impulse
would be to toss him a bouquet or so
about his new waistcoat or cravat or
something. but please deny yourselves
on my account. Rememb Der it's 1 who
have to live with him after you've
spoiled him"
Well. never saw before such an
open exhibition of jealousy" declared
the girl with the red hair Now did
you?" and she turned to the other
young madame and the Oracle.
II isn't jealOusy-you quite misun-
oerstand me-" replied the hostess.
Every one knows I'm not Jealous of
Ered-even he isn't so vain as to think
that.
I'm not afraid ofthe impressiony you'll
make upon him. I dread the effects of
the impression he'll think he has made
upon you. OF course he'd assume
deprecatory air and even appear en-
oarrassed by your compliments but af-
ter you We're gone, o, the lordly air,
the vanity, the parading before the
mirror! Really for a woman who earn
estly tries to keep on loving her hus-
band, I don't know of any greater
drawback than the attentions her
friends pay Unexpectedly innocent as
they are, too, and offered in the su-
blime confidence that nothing you say
to a married man matters. But no
z an understands that. He takes it all
IN. no matter what kind of a jolly you
give him and his wife has to suffer
afterwards the sickening spectacle of
his egregious vanity"
Yes" said the other young madame,
and no unmarried woman seems to
understand what an annoyance it is
when a woman has managed to take a
man down enough so that she can live
with him to have another woman undo
the work of weeks or perhaps months
with one silly compliment"
Il suppose it's because the married
men are so generally neglected that an
occasional jolly goes to their heads"
unused the Oracle who had been listen
ing to the dialogue in silence.
THE bachelors don't seem to be so
upset by a little attention"
Don't you think it," retorted the
hostess. They're Just as vain as the
married men only no one knows it on
them. Until a man marries you, you
always have an idea that he abhors
compliments. I often hear engaged girls
say that they can always tease their
lovers by complimenting them. Let
them keep on-they'n find out how
much a man hates that sort of thingl
Talk about a woman's vanity I tell you
a. man is the vainest creature that roves
the earth"
81 insist, though" said the Oracle,
that marriage has something to do
with it. I'll not deny that the bachelors
think pretty well of themselves-bu
then who's fault is It? Don't all the
women they know, from their mothers
and sisters down-or up, whichever you
like-unite in hattering and spelling
them and worshipping at their feet?
Aren't they always given to understand