Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-02-13

wonderfully mitigated by modern in
ventions. isn't it? Here's an advertise
ment in this mornings paper of a self
rocking cradle, and another OF Il self
cooking range and ~
"And. now" exclaimed h Mere
Man c%ynically. III we could only discov-
err q self-amusing husband"
''There are plenty OF those. Mr.. Por-
teri"
"And a s~elf-raising child"
How perfectly lovely!"
"And a self-paying expense &C
The Bachelor Girl clasped her hands
with delight.
"sit down." she cried. making room
beside her on the studio divan. II like
your mood today. Mr.. Porter"
The Mere Mans cynicism dissolved
beneath her smile as the clouds beneath
the SUI
"Of course" he said alphabetically,
as he sank gratefully into h proffered
seat, Its rather hard on you women
Hard on 1872" The Bachelor Girl
dropped her newspaper with a ttnkle
OF silver bangles.
This taking your job out Of your
hands" explained the Mere Man, tout
of the hands, he added with a sigh.
that once rocked the cradle and ruled
the world!"
"They v did," retorted the Bach
elor Girl promptly. lat least. not the
same hands," and h picked up her
brushes and slipped on her studio apron
with a shrug of the shoulders. That's
a misleading old proverb.' she contin-
ued, leaning over to put the finishing
touch on the halo OF q pink and purple
Madonna, invented in order to de-
ceive us into keeping hands out
OF masculine affairs. The hands that
rule the world. n always have ruled
a. nwn Tho 1noo thot U,oo~ I1opnnn1C
and No. s gloves. and polish their nails
n are put in coldcream overnight n
dipped in roseWater every morning.
You never heard of Queen Elizabeth,
or Madame Pompadour. OF Cleopatra.
or Joa of Arc, or Nell Gwynne. or
Boadicea. or Helen Of Troy. or Luz
cretzia Borgia, or any woman who ever
influenced a country or a king. rock
ing a cradle. did you? If they had
rocked cradles O wouldn't have heard
of them at ALL" n she put a fine line
around the halo with Il confident sweep
of her BRUSH.
"Oh!" The Mere Man cleared his
men are occasionally beguiled by an un-
sexed, unnatural, dangerous creature
of a Kind"
IT mean that they always are" re-
Joined the Bachelor Girl decisively. .If
they weren't" and she laughed softly,
sAdG AAlAOs WOulO1l = US 0uiI8cTOuS.
And" h added. pushing back her
bangles and squirting thoughtfully at
the halo, IF it should come to a choice
between being called a dangerous
creature or dubbed a domestic trump
nine women out Of 10 would break all
h cradles to pieces and fling them into
the fire."
II do believe they would" exclaimed
h Mere Man with conviction.
But they don't have to-" retorted
the Bachelor Girl cheerfully. Thanks
to the incubator. n h self-rocking
cradle, and the French nurse, and the
beauty specialist, q woman nowadays
can be as dangerous as Circe or Medu-
sa and suill manage to be some sort
Of wife and mother"
"Yes," agreed the Mere Man, wryly,
but what sort Of wife and mother?"
The very latest patent" returned
the Bachelor Girl, with a triumphant
wave OF her brush. The readymade
sort-warranted to fit any kind of do
nestle or social situation. The sort
that you find everywhere in society,
and apartment hotels and around bar
gain counters n all women's clubs.
And IL she isn't exactly what your
youthful fancy painted, you must re-
member that it's your W fault that
h is what che is. If h hadn't dis
covered that. while the hand that rock
ed the cradle was getting %calloused on
the inside and knotty on the knuckles,
you were off kissing the hand that wore
diamonds and had time to keep itself
manicured, h would still be blissfully
chair was the throne seat. It took a
long time and many shocks to wake us
Out of that peaceful dream"
"Shocks!" The Mere Man looked as
IL he had at that received one.
The Bachelor Girl turned and re-
garded him loftily.
Don't O suppose" she inquired in
q patronizing tone, that 1t was a shock
to the Roman matrons to discover that
a soul of honor like Marc Antony could
see anything in a snake-lfke creature
with an Egyptian nose, and rings on
he: toes and no reputation to speak
of? And don't you suppose that it's
a new shock every time we find out
thai some masculine paragon who has
been writing or preaching about the
~sacredness of the American home or
painting madonnas has gone of and
gotten himself tangled up with a Circe
and overturned all our theories? The
trouble Isl" and she turned back to her
easel once more, that a man always
has wanted a Madonna and Gree
mixed. Delilah and :. Gretchen worked
into one. And at last we've discovered
how to give 1t to him. We've found
out that we can keep h domestic ma
marcel h hair. by rocking the cradle
by proxy, and living in apartment no.
tells and buying the children's clothes
ready made, and pinning our faith to
bachelors buttons and hole-proof
socks. But 1t isn't much fun" and
the Bachelor Girl sighed. there ia
nothing on earth," she continued, sadly,
that the average woman enjoys more
than doing her own housework and
making baby clothes. and embedding
pillows, and curling a baby's hair: but
she has found out that it doesn't pay;
and that while she is cutting out pat
terms n making bibs some other
woman is cutting her out of a husband
and making r0uhlan