Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

thought | might venture on some sort of answer to
that Il believe in independence, anyway said.
And you don't think much about the theory
I'm afraid not" confessed You see, I'm too
busy defending my independence"
He gave one of those smiles that are like the
sun coming out of the thick of black cloud. Il
see you a very practical person, he said Now
l have theory that women really the practical
half of humanity Their prompt attention to the
matter in hand is of the causes that have kept
them from attaining to distinguished positions. 1t
takes dreams to make personality. And the men
the ones who have the time to do the dreaming.
The Russian Count agreed with him; but no one
else did-except me.
When George Bernard Shaw wrote Man and
Superman,'" he went on, he set the teeth of the
women on edge considerably. When he made it out
that it was really the women who to it that the
world kept marrying and giving in marriage, and
that men got away from responsibility II they
were given chance, but that the women held on to
them, and married them, and made them work for
them and supply them with bread and bonnets,
why, the women were terribly sulky: They thought
he considered them immodest. But, really he
looked them as being important,-ne
Perhaps he even considered them inspired. They
do their duty, and they make of the men do it.
Dear me- yes" said our hostess. We make the
do their duty in more ways than one. Some
times they do it harder than we wish they would
Now, Mr.. Wilkinson and have no children. So. in
order to do part in the world, we adopted two.
They very nice young things,-a boy and girl
/ have done everything for them that could think
of, and now they are both off at college So go to
clubs, and give teas, ana DelOnS 10 reneI aSSOC1d-
TONS and come up here for the opera, and read all
the best novels. But Mr.. Wilkinson doesn't
do any of these things; he supports me. He sup
ports fifty times over; but he thinks he is just
barely doing it. l wanted him to succeed, and he
wanted me to have everything there was to be had
We have what wanted. He has succeeded.
have everything | want-except my husband. He
never can stop. He is supporting me noon and night
Sundays and holidays. Meantime I'm busy doing
nothing. All my business is mere pretense. There's
nothing to it. l could stop tomorrow and not dis
y, fha nch1 of ~
LAS the modern philosophers put it" Mr.. Mace
said "you have connection with reality.
Precisely" Mrs. Wilkinson said
She is big and handsome and kind looking, just
little too sad perhaps, and she was splendid in
her green velvet and diamonds. l liked her lot
just then; and SO l think did everybody There
was nice friendly little silence and then she went
again.
Now, our friend Miss Crotchett,' she said
Though she hasn't idea of it, is really repre-
sentative of the kind of woman She has to
have finger in the pie She cannot get along with
the pretend things. She must actually earn her
bread; must go down with all the other men and
women; must make, buy, SELL The kind of women
that poets write about and that men usually think
they approve Of have nothing to sell but themselves
They may sell to love to money to convenience
but after all, that's what it comes to. But this
little girl here-though as say. she doesn't know it