The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-15

woman to worship and adore him, to
eliminate her ego in behalf of his, not
as some one I was reading the other
day said one, who makes a man catch
his breath as she frou-frous by and
who expects him to keep up the same
Open-mOuthed admiration every mo-
ment he is permitted to be near her
Few men care to do this long and so
they marry nice, average girls who are
willing to burn the incense themselves.
They make the best WiVes-the happieSt
homes-the unselfish women who adore
their husbands and have no ambition
no desires apart from theirs, who live
only to glorify and exalt them.
The other sort of man-usually a
plain plug man whom the glorious crea-
ture in the scOrnful triumph Of her first
youth and beauty thinks never to stoop
tbs condemned to dutter and strain
forever like a poor, misguided moth
toward the brilliant stars that light his
social skies.
He has, in a way,a high ideal of fem
mime loneliness, modelled after the prin-
cess in the fairy tale. She must be
beautiful. rich, brilliant, popular and
imperiOus. But if she is all these things
what does she want Of hint Ordinarily,
nothing, as he finds out after he has
sprained his wings good many times
He quite goes to my heart, that poor
unfortunate with the soul of an idealist
and the appearance and manners of a
BuAllJhlt NNuyr why can ne learn 10
love one of the simple passabIe average
girls in his own class. Chances are
she'd be too good for him, his superior
in everything, but she'd never know it,
because she'd love him.
You know there are women like that,
tOO-dreamers, chasing the phantom of
the Impossible He-sticking, until thir-
ty. to the ideals of fourteen. All the
other girls Of their set have found out
that their idols are only clay, have
made uD their minds to put up with
half-gods instead Of gods. have married
mere men and are living happily ever
afterWard. But these pitiable ones cling
to hope turn up their noses. although
they are past the age when the express
sion IS piQuant. at the men they might
have and who would make good, aver
age husbands, and cry for the moon I
know I've told you about Clorinda who
was that sort. She had rather a thick
skin, her hair was nothing to rave
about and her mouth was buddjsh but
she wanted a prince and, though she
didn't have much hope of meeting and
winning one, she wouldn't take any
/ thing less. But time went on and now
ClOrinda is tWenty-seVen-you know it's
I the fatal age-and they do say she is
going to marry Allen Adare. What is
Allen like2 o. Just human good sort.
one leg trifle bowed, his forehead rap
/ idly expanding; ears perhaps too large;
/ can't sit horse; a sight at a dance:
makes an occasional grammatical error;
earns hve thousand a year is good.
/ honest, anectionate, trustworthy and
/ very prudent financially The Joke is
/ that Allen, with all these disqualified
/ tons has always wanted a princess. and
Clorinda with all her drawbacks has al
/ ways wanted prince. But they also
/ wanted sympathy and companionship
4 SO. after seeking long and devoutly for
Ihe Heart s Desire, in unsatisfied and inn
/ possible ideals they decided to find
a substitute in one another. Not thai
Iney are blinded to one another's short
/ comlngs. Allen doesn't Imagine thai
Siiorinda is the princess At Last, and
Clorlnda knows very well that princes