Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-22

VToU'vE sat behind 'em, or alongside OF
'em, at The theater when they've talked
Il this way, maybe. SO you'll understand
says writer in the washington Evening
Star
This was at a matinee, the performance
being chaste vaudeville.
T.iere were two of them. The dumpy one
didn't say much. But the angular, hatchet-
faced was there.
Look over there in the box-huhl-in a boxl
there's that pasty-faced. watery-eyed, shin
gle-shsse- Toechalk creaturep' was the way
she opened up not more than three seconds
after she'd pumped herself into her seat and
taken peep around the house. Made up, as
usual, within an inch of her life. Dye know
what heard about her the other day? Why
that she makes her poor little, pitiful, spine
less husband do his home smoking on the rear
fire escape of their fiat! Just as true as l live
and breathe I heard thati
Friend of mine who lives in the same fiat
with the Toechalks told Said she'd often
noticed that wretched little Toechalk man
really, can't pity him much, allowing his
wife to buldoze him that way-standing out
on his rear fire escape after dinner. smoking
away for dear life on a cigar almost big
as himself. But she said she never dreamed,
naturally that he had to take to the fire es-
cape to get after-dinner smoke for himself.
She imagined that maybe he was hair
crank or that he didn't enjoy his smoking
less he was in the open air, or that, perhaps.
he was merely trying to get away from the
sound Of his wifes voice for little while-or
that. perhaps, he wanted to spy around from
his position on the fire escape and see what
he could see.
but she never entertained the idea, she
told me, that the backboneless poor little man
was being actually chased out to the fire es-
cape to take his atfer-dinner smoke. Why,
the idea Of such thing! I'd just as lief be
tied for life to a Hotbentot or Fill islander
ldaff have nf1o1xcr t,,,lr 20
insist upon smoking anywhere around the
house tnat ne wanted 70. simply can't un-
derstand man allowing his wife to dictate to
him in such matters. Now, my husband does
all OF his smoking at home in the kitchen of
our fiat taught him to prefer the kitchen to
smoke in, and now he never says a word about
II. but Just goes out there and does his smok-
Ing after meals.
Training the Animal
when we were first married he'd smoke all
over the place, but when pointed out to him
how much nicer 1t would be for him 40 smoke
in the kitchen, and nowhere else, why he en-
tered into my idea perfectly, like sensible
man. Just carried easier chair out into
placed his evening paper over the arm Of the
chair, and, then. when he was ready to smoke
and reached Into his pocket for a cigar l
merely pointed out there, not saying word.
and he went out there, not saying a word, |
either and then closed the door leading from |
the kitchen to the dining room. that none |
of the smoke could get in there. and told him |
to open the kitchen windows wide. and he did |
1t all Just that way, and 1 haven't had a par |
tice of trouble over his smoking since. He |
knows perfectly well. of course. that he has |
the privilege of smoking anywhere in the |
apartment that he wants to- but he is not the |
man to take advantage of the privileges I
grant minded not. He consuts my likes
and dislikes. He's Just Independent
hog on ice, Of course but that doesn't prevent
him from doirg the things that please me. 1
am positive that he'd rather smoke in the
kitchen than anywhere else in the apart
ment.
And it's the same way about drinking.