The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-28
COLONEL JOHN sNEEDs CONVERSATIONS ON
DOMESTIC PROBLEMS
BY CASPER S. YosT.
BY CASPER S. YoST.

I bringing men and women together. Ev-
/ cry girl wants to look her best when her
/ beau's comm around, and that's right;
that's nature. Didn't you rig up in the
! incest clothes your pas money could
/ buy for you wheI. Bill was doin' his
courtin'? Didn't ycu prance around be-
| fore a looking glass for an hour at a
| time tryin' to get everything just so,
and look your pre- tiest for him. OF
course you did. And he 5 still carryin'
some O. those pictures around in his
head; and once in while he gets them
out, and wonders why there's such a
difference.
There isn't any real difference,
honey. It's just appearances. You
haven't lost any good looks since you
married, You're just as pretty and as
sweet and as good as you were then:
maybe little more so. When you're
all fixed up in the evening | have to
admit that Mrs. William Jackson Roll
Inns don't play second fiddle to Miss
Sallie Sneed. You're all right then. lit
tie girl; you're all right now. But APP
pearances have Just as much to do with
keepin' man as they with gettin' him.
and the mOrnin' appearance has more
influence than the evenin'. for 1t stays
longer: If goes downtown and spends
the day with him.
Now I'm not sayin', my dear. that
woman ought TO rig up in her best
clothes before breakfast and go through
all the funny business of a reception
toilet. l don't mean that. Not by a
whole heap. That would be no more
right than for Bill to go down to work
in a full dress suit. There's a time for
all things, as Shakespeare or Solomon
remarked some time back, but l don't
know of any proper time, honey, for
dissoiute kimonos, united shoes and I'M
kempt hair. These wrapper things the
women have got to weaTin' nowadays
ought to be prohibited by law, if that
would do any good. They were de-
signed, ] reckon. for the hours of lux
urious ease and for loungin' around in
a boudOiT. Maybe they amt so bad.
But they wasn't cut out for workin'
garbs. They're as much out o. place in
the kitchen as a velvet gown. Yet it's
20 so that half the women in this coun-
try fall out O. bed every moTnin' into
more or less soiled and bedrdg glcd XII
monos. I think I'd be willin' TO see a
war with Japan just to get even with
her for this kimOnO habit. It's a lazy
dress, and I tell you. honey, it's down
right demoralizin'. That's what it is
It's 50 easy to set on il makes woman
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stead o bein' neat and trim as she
ought to be in the mornin'. whether she
is doin' her work or overseein' it. she
gets to lookin' dowdy and slouchy. You
can't help it, little girl; it's the influence
of the garb And I'd be willin' to bet
d horse against a secondhand burro."
and here the colonel pounded on the
arm of his chair with his fist, that XII
monos have had good deal to do with
what they call the matrimonial unrest.
A man goes off downtown leavin' his
wife lookin' like she'd just escaped from
a fire sale. an the first thing ne puts
his eyes on at his office is d stenogra-
pher in a clean shirt waist If YOU think
he don't notice tie difference you're
badly mistaken. my dear Maybe he
don't make eyes at the typewriter girl
Maybe his love is so strong il doesn't
affect his feelings the least bit. but all
the same he notices it. And 1 wouldn't
take the risk honey. But-my. my
the colonel was looking at his watch
Il can't stay here all day preaching TO
you. I've got to get down to the Office.
SO goodbye, little girl, and-say. I'll be
over this evening to see how you look. "
Copyright, 1909 by c. S. Yost1