Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-08
SEVEN WISE WOMEN.
lBY DOROTHY DIX J


Once upon time there were Seven
Wise Women, all of whom were mar
ried, who forgathered in the boudoir of
one of these, where they took down
their back hair together, and told each
other their secrets because it was
twilight. For no woman can keep any,
thing that she knows to herself in the
dusk.
"How is it," inquired one of the
Wise Women, THAT we are happy.
though not divorced?"
81 do not think much of divorces. -
replied another Wise Woman, "they
are generally messy, and it is my OBJ
servation that it is much easier to get
money out of the husband you have
than it is to collect alimony from the
husband you had"
Without doubt" observed q third
Wise Women, ''there are many conso-
lations in being Sod Widow, but Grass
Widow gets all of the bereavement
without any of the perquisities of
widowhood."
ITO lose your husband by death is
often regretable accident" put in a
fourth Wise Women, "but to have
somebody take him away from you is
public admission that you couldn't
hold your own"
"1t is so much trouble to break in a
husband, opined the fifth Wise Woman.
that l would rather put up with the
one / have than to tackle the JOB of
domesticating a new one"
Managing a husband is SO much
like taking pennies from baby that /
am surprised that any wife should not
be mortified TO death to admit that she
has failed" said the sixth Wise
Woman.
'Inasmuch," suggested the seventh
Wise Woman, cas- we are all felici-
tiously married for keeps to men who
think that they have each drawn a
matrimonial prize that they consider
themselves honored to toll like slaves
to support, let us tell how we pulled it
off,"
To this proposition all of the other
ladies agreed, and the first Wise
Woman thereupon removed the hair
pins from her mouth, and spoke as
follows:
81 was a very romantic GIRL" she
said, land full of ideals, and figured
it out that the only kind of person who
would capture my maiden fancy would
be real, genuine ali hero-a sort of
combination Solomon, Sir Launcelot.
Jim Jeffries and Booth Harrington.
He was to be wise, chivalrous, strong,
and converse in beautiful language. I
got this-nit, but l didn't know it
until afterward.
Somehow got married without get
ting this dope dream of man as he
ought to be and isn't seriously smashed,
for l was always handy with my i'm
agination and dressed up the good,
plain, every day sort of man who es-
corted me to the altar in the ruffled
panties of my fancy, so that he looked
good to me as noble and heroic being.
'You are all married and will there
fore spare you the details of telling the
shock my sensitive feeling got when /
discovered that my idol was not only
made of clay, but it was mostly mud.
When found out that was tied up
with one of the also rams of matrimonv.
and that there was not going to be
any star gazing or palpitating thrills in
matrimony for me, turned on the
water works, but because l had not
drawn the capital prize in the matri-
monial lottery that / thought / was
getting / was not fool enough to
throw away the consolation prize that
had fallen to my lot.
''It is true that to my pillowI murmur.
ed in the silence of the night, "stung, ''
and then / turned my optics upon my
friends, and / could not see that many
of them got anything that they needed
to brag about.
$50 l went apart and communec
with myself, and said: Because have
gotten bad deal is no reason to throw
up my hand and let myself go into the
discard of those women who have
wrecked their lives because they didn't
get all the trumps. The poorer the
cards you hold, the more skill yor
must put into playing the game, so il
|sis up to me to make winning in spite
of my luck. So here goes for me anc
matrimony.