The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-01-03

~"The-what?"
''The you Observation-Disclosures
attitude" explained the Bachelor Girl.
that men assume toward women from
the time they are old enough to leave
their sisters sitting on the front door
step while they go out and fight make
believe Indians until they are old
enough to leave their wives sitting i'm
the parlor while they go out and do
Make-believe work at theo office. 1T Was
Antony's attitude toward Cleopatra II
Antonio's attitude toward Portia and
Hatnlet's attitude coward Ophelin and
and weren't they all surprised" and
the Bachelor Girl gurgled with malic-
lous delight.
"If you are going to .revel in h fail
'tngs of your sex'- began he Mere
Man ~reproachfully.
"Failings!" exclaimed Ii Bachelor
Girl in scornful establishment.
And their d~isconcerting habit of all
ways turning up where they're least ex-
ipected and engaging in battle, trouble
and sudden death when II chap falcies
them safely at nome mending the fam
lily stockings or feeding the kitten'-
YES" Interrupted the Bachelor Girl
with a sage nod of hen cul'ls. failing
TO be there when "a man happens to
think lie wants her is the greatest sin Il
woman can commit-eNcept being there
when he doesn't want her. The mascu-
line idea of love is a hitching post
"ItI d IGI SaII bS-ti MolllAi III
leave her with perfect security, as he
would the family horse. But she isn't to
blame if her human instincts of curios-
fly and impatience get the better Of
her. IF Adam left Eve standing by the
forbidden tree while he went off to dig
roots for breakfast or to take his morn
Eng bath he shouldn't have been sur
prised because she got hungry and
curious and plucked the fatal apple.
And IF n man leaves his wife at nome
while he goes out to clubs or stag par
ties he shouldn't get eXcited"-
But I'm not leaving a%nybody's wife
at home" protested the Mere Mar
p~Iaintively. and l don't see why 4
can't stop to think, before ! choose my
own wife,
And leave her waiting on the door
step of mairimony While you are
thinking and going about amusing
yourself with other women. to max
sure that you can't do n better!!" I'm
terrupted the Bachelor Girl sarcastic
ally. And yet" she added musingly.
Tive no doubt you'll expect to marry
n girl who's never been kisscd-while
She waited-or had a thought or a SEN
timen for anybody but you"
ct course" retOrted the Mere Man.
NH make. sure that I am getting a
NICE. sweet girl"
The incest things" remarked the
Bachelor Girl acridly, as she put a knot
in her thread. can become shopworn,
IL they are left on the shelf too long
even for instance"
II beg your pardon" The Mere Man
dropped his cigaret.
Even YOU" repeated the Bachelor
Girl. quite unperturbed, ARE getting a
little worn about the edges of your
hair and frayed as to your morals. and
wrinkled in your disposition, and faded
IN your e~nthusiasms. Girls aren't i'm
mortelles, which will keep forever I'M
der a glass case. They are just nat
ural lowers. that need the sun of love
and the breeze of life and the good gar
dening of matrimony to keep them
fresh II young and unwithered. Yet
nowadays the average a expects to
spend th%ree-quartcrs of his life as a
jolly bachelor and ten years more con-
templating m%atrimony, before he takes
the plunge"
And then" put in the Mere Man