The Ordway new era., 1909-10-15

to the editors there Is small wonder
that the man in the case falls easy
prey to the "other woman"
Woman But an Incident.
One of the bluegrass school" Of
authors in his last piece OF fiction
shows still another reason for the
gradual growing away OF the husband
from the earlier devotional attitude
that Is the heritage OF the honeymoon.
The hero Is a professor In one OF the
little inland schools down in the blue
grass country. He has been there for
years. but now the time has come
when he has received call to go
east into wider field of usefulness
that his ripened powers seem to merit.
Woman-like. his wife Is still wrapped
up In her devotion to him and their
children. He. on the other hand, is
becoming more absorbed in his work
than In her and his home. She slowly
realizes that woman is only an Incl.
dent In the life OF a man.
The churches and civic societies for
decades have been Illuminating against
the rottenness OF human nature: the
moral sense Of the community always
condemns II. but whatever It's causes
may be. they are always strong
enough enough to sweep down the
puny barriers OF convention and law.
The new school OF ethnology and 30
cial life has been giving these social
evils Its attention. But the scientists
admit tho I'm ntt1cno nj ms ~ IN n far
run so deep in raw human nature that
n remedy Is well.nigh impossible.
Prof Starr. whose vicious attacks on
womankind and her nature have been
SO widely noted. has recently taken
up the study OF the civilized male as
social animal.
Professor Starr's first verdict on the
ordinary man and his habits and de.
sires was delivered with characteristic
venom. He had made his earliest
studies OF this character during the
summer season Just passed. and had
found that the pretty girl In the chorus
and the lure OF pink-tinted fleshings
were Just as strong a drawing card as
the comic artist OF all these years has
been telling us. The shows that con.
tanned the most coarse infidelity and
the most blatant sneers at married
life were the ones the husbands whose
wives were away for the summer
seemed most anxious to see. Every
joke with the married man as the VIC
tim was applauded uproariously. The
most popular songs were those that
told OF the joys of the married man
while wiley was away. Il love. I love
my wife. but o you kid" was always
one of the hits OF the evening with
these summer bachelors. according
to Prof. Starr.
Affects All Glasses.
And the staid bankers. brokers and
dry.goods men would stand on the
seats and beat one another over the
shoulders with their Panamas when
trip lightly to the footlights. throw
kiss to the nearest box and warble.
MY Wife Is Gone to the Country"
The whole bunch that came under the
professors observation acted as II
they were having the best time that
had come their way since they left
the altar on the day of their marriage.
There is no sign that seems to show
such instances as that Of the preacher
and the choir girl who were arrested
in an Illinois town recently are on the
decrease. You can hardly pick up
paper metropolitan or rural, without
coming across a headline telling the
story Of recreant husband There
seems to be germ in the air that
makes for loose living no matter what
the consequences. It Is a far cry from
this love-pirate. soul.mate, afinity
craze back to the simple living, Low.
ing and lying of our pioneer grand.
parents.
In the "oood Old Days"
They say that In the good old days,
before marriage had come to be dis.
cussed in the light of a failure" no
one ever dreamed of suggesting that
the husband got all the ha'pence.
whilst the wife. metaphorically. had
nothing save the kicks and pinpricks
OF matrimony. ~
The varied trials and crosses that
come Into every married life were &C.
cepted az matters OF coirse. and to
have suggested to some swset young
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