The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-07


wOmcn's magazines tell how to take
IN cid barrel a little cretonnc, a few
Lrass tacks and some braid. all found
in the top machine drawer. and make
4 chair for Father for Christmas that
will look better than those that cost
$50 In the stores.
When a woman tolls how much her
hat cost. there is always this Scream,
But there is nothing on IT," And
how the women are screaming II this
fall. Usually, the mon alone are in
dignant over the prices of women's
hats, but this fall the women are just
as indignant.
You occasionally hear man abused
Tor a lac.. of gallansry: a single man.
And married man is accused of be-
ing ilirt because he possesses the
quality. a man has a hard time Civ
ing satisfaction.
The friends of every married cou-
pic are divided in two lots. Those
who wonder how HE ever happened
to marry HER, and those who can
understsuc why SHE ever married
HIM.
We wonder If it pleases woman
TO have omen so triumphantly sue
cessful IN the stories she reads, or
does 1t irritate her? There is a story
J, the current number of the Atlantic
Monthly called Mrs. Dixons Culture
Course, IN which a woman past mid
1le age, bent and wrinkled with hard
work, and who says "wouldnthase C.
went" etc, has a big good looking
husband who becomes suddenly rich.
and is elected to congress. The poor
little old lady finds that her husband
is striding ahead of her and that AN.
OTHER " OMAN is keeping up with
linn. SO she asks him for S5,GC0.
ard goes ~ big cty. where size
hires manicures, hairdressers. man
tiilors, FGris milliners. teachers I'm
grammar and real society woman
10 teach Ter manners. Al the end
0t seven months she blooms out as a
beautiful Young, anG cultured wo-
man. Dt.ing the time she is being
r anicuc.d, learning no, to eat with
her knifr, and becoming generally
cultured. her husband Is not allowed
~ oNN AiA anu Nltiis al Alit Nnu Va
the seven months, she bursts upon
polished manners her husband falls
at her feet in alteration We imagine
that the woman who reads about Mrs
Dixon will throw the magazine or the
floor, and say, Il would like to see the
man who would give his wife S5,0Cl
to spend on massage and school teach
ers, and even If he G'd give her the
money and she floated into the room
looking like golden haired. pink
checked fsiry he would not look al
her long enough to know the differ
ence."
The other day. on a railroad train
saw drunken man who acted in 4
! ridiculous way He had a bottle ol
whisky. and was inviting sober mer
TO drink. The man was TOOL of tire
nendOus size and / thought 20 myself
Why does that man act in dhat fool
ish way? Dosen't he know better?
Then It occurred to me that we al
have fool streak ! have, and
confess It with shame. Plenty Of peo
pie will act sensible all week and
tnen kick everything oyer with one
! fool break. People seem to enjoy act
ing the fool, but believe / never
knew anyone who enjoyed being sen
slble."
Complaint was made recently b,
an emDloye Of a foreman. "Ht
watches the boss's interests too close
ly." was the complain, that he Il
hard on US And what saf oreman
for II 10, 10 watch me bosss inter
tsts? some Of these days Justice may
be done that generally disliked per
son the foreman but all he gets nov
Is the abuse Of the employees under
him who make every meeting a wall
ing place, and wall. and wall
After married woman has re.
turned frcm visit. she devotes a
good deal more time TO telling the
horrible condition in wn.ch she found
rhe house than she does 20 expressing
JOY at seeing her husband
There is an old-fashioned flower
called "Eouncing Betsey.H which
everyone should love tor one trait; Ve
have notlced that II grows on all neg
lected graves, as If trying TO cover up
the fact that someone who once lived
Is forgotten IL may also be found in
corners OF old-fashioned gardens,
where IL grows. and blooms, and pro
tests against being pushed out entire
". There are some dear old-fashioned
people whose lives suggest "Bounching
Betsey."
Kindness is perhaps the only hu-
nan sentiment which exacts no pay