The Saint Paul globe., 1904-07-22
MOST SINGULAR STORY
MAN OBJECTS BECAUSE HIS WIFE
DOES NOT TALK
Usually Husbands Complain Because
Women Have Too Much to Say
Men Like to Talk Themselves and
Listen to Their Wives Chatter at
Times

A most singular phenomenon has
been recorded recently and the story
involved certainly gives the lie to some
masculine theories. 1t concerns man
who desired to part from his wife be-
cause she did not talk enough. This
may be regarded as a laughing matter
by some misguided men who think that
the continual talking of women is
foregone conclusion. 1t is always pleas
ant to speak well of the coafSer sex on
this page when it can conseientiously
be done, but there are times when 1t Is
necessary to expose their inconsistent
cies. This is one of the occasions. AL
most every married man in his heart
thinks he is talked to death and gets
so that in the course of time he does
not listen to everything his wife says,
but Just punctuateS her sentences with
yes or no" at intervals so that she
may not think him rude. But that she
ia ks too much he is certain, and when
he sees stories in the funny papers
about the conversational tendencies Of
women, he laughs long and loud. slaps
his knee and is sure those jokes were
written by suffering brother.
Now just to show how hard it is to
suit the masculine contingent, here is
man who says that for days at a time
his wife will not speak and he feels
distinctly aggFieved. He would like to
when he is in the mood to hear her. He
also at times, would like to know what
she. means by talking SO much. The
truth is he wants what he wants when
he wants it. That sentence looks funny,
but if you read it with the proper ac-
cent you can get a good deal out of it.
When a man is blue, and does not
feel like conversing himself. he likes to
hear a woman chatter-he talks. She
chatterS-and it does not so much mat
ter what she says. But when he wants
to talk himself, he cannot understand
why in the world he cannot have her
complete attention. Nothing anneys
man so much as to have a woman in
terrupt while he is talking. or keep on
talking in an undertone when he has
the floor This, in his wife, is unpar-
donabIe. But il she is talking and he
wants to interrupt he would like her
to remember that he is the head of the
house, owns the earth and the fullneSs
thereof.
doubt about that. When woman has
not seen her husband all day, she likes
TO tell him what has happened, the
gossip she has heard-he never inter-
rupts then-and sometimes she goes
on and on and the properly regulated
husband should like the sound of her
voice. Instead of that he complains
makes jokes about it and laughs with
other men over this feminine weak
ness, as he ngards it.
Now this woman in the story spoken
of above had evidently made up her
mind to give her husband no cause of
complaint on this score. Sc she did not
talk at all. The ungrateful husband,
instead of going to the club and telling
what lovely. peaceful kind OF woman
his wife was, What does he do but fly
off TO some court and complain TO a
judge that he can't live with a woman
who does not talk. Well, girls, they al e
pretty hard to- suit, and you have to
take them as they come. If men only
knew it, one of the greatest blessings
in life is woman who talks straight
ahead even if she does not say much
She keeps her friends and her husband
from thinking of their troubles, she
never allows the conversation to lag,
and she makes an admirable filler,
which is a printers term and means
something that is used when you run
out of copy" Anything but the wom-
an who sits up like craven image and
looks out upon the world with cold
disapproval. AS proof that she is not
to be borne, witness the story with
which 1 began this dissertation. The
woman who talks all the time is bound
to say something worth hearing in the
course OF time.
We will the story stand, however
as a monument to mans inconsistency