The Washington times., 1909-01-30
DiSingenuOuS Women Often
Charge Their Liege Lords
Unfairly.
MILLINERS KNOW
DECEPTIVE TRICK
When Complaints Come In About
Dresses and Things,
They're On.

women are disingenuous creatures. I
was Ein a house the other day when a
wife came home from the hairdressers
and asked her husband how he liked
her couture.
lie was reading the stock quotations,
and withdrew AS attention from them
reluctantly. It's arranged the same
Old way, isn't it?" he asked vaguely.
Certainly not. las quite a new way.
Usually. you know. 1 wear It on top my
head. toda it's arranged i'm a Psyche
knot az the back"
Plainly her husbands thoughts were
still with Common Steel or whatever
the creatures are called, but, seeing
mai he must say something, lac finally
murmured that he didn't think she
looked quite SO welI' thus c0i1ed, and
then buried his nose in the newspaper
asasn.
The next day 1 happened to be with a
eroup OF women when this wife came in
ana joined in conversation concern
ing hair-dTessing.
The Psyche knot is intensely becom-
ing TO me-" she said when her turn
came TO speak, but Arthur simply viii
not let me wear it, he says ne does
not like il at all on me, but that he pre-
1erS my present method Of halr-dTeSS-
ing, and, like the Obedient wife that I
am. ], OF course, bow 10 his Will"
And all her hearers murmuTed that
one must please one husband at what
ever inconvenience 10 OneSelI, and i
wondered how much OF the story she
had told this lady believed herself
Blames II on Husband.
Dressmakers and miuiners both know
how prominently husbands figure in the
conversation of their clients. When
gowns are brought back and elaborate
alterations are demanded. when hats
must be changed and bOas returned.
then not even the most advanced wO-
man scOrns 10 drag her husband into
the conversation, by the ears as il were.
Il am perfectly satisfied, but john
does not like il, and, OF course, I couldn't
keep il if it doesn't suit him when he
pays the bin so cheeriUIly, the dear"
\ young woman who was trying to
raise funds for a charitable purpose
says that she didn't know there were
so many. husbands IN the world as were
pOked at her In the course Of round
OF visits one afternoon.
Husbands i haven't heard mentioned
for years were resurTected for this Oc-
caslon only. she says cynically, ans
were quoted as being opposed to charity
in any form. even that sort which covers
a multitude Of sins
II forms a pleasing contrast then 10
hear the other side OF the question, for
when one iunOcently speaks TO a hus-
band OF one of his opinions oft quoted
BY his other half, his surprise IS a. reve- /
lation to witness and painful in regard.
W0man's Suffrage.
Did Susan say ] believed ia 'wOmau's
suffrage he asks. Now. I wonder
now I'm the world she received that inn
preston, when l have told her so often
that a domestic life was woman's
sphere"
Or. she said I refused TO allow her 10
have a wistaTia gown. What is vista
Fiay When did / ever see a gown made
o. wistarlat ] suppose she came iu here
BJme time when l was busy and both
cred me about it, and ] just said what 1
thought she wanted me To say TO get
rid OF her. She knew l did not mean H.
Could duplicity go farther
But after all. with whose opinions
may one take liberties II not with those
OF one. life partner one must be very
careful in quoting a friend 90 quote him
with absolute accuracy. 1t Is the same
IN quoting a distant relative, for If one
says be declared against a high tariff
or for Gregorlan music he may turn and
But with ones e~Vn husband. who adj
mlts when he's iu q good hUmOr shat
ne IS part of one, one should be al /
lowed a few fsmiliariJes In the matter
or saying he said things which perhaps I
Ae ulu not say II is q part OF the COM /
peusatiOns Of that holy institution F.
known as m8trimOuy, which so often /
L.rns our 10 De an unhOiE and wretched /
Affair.
When SpOuses Criticise.
OF course. there arc men who have
decided opinions ou the subject of the /
costuming of their wives. and express /
them with the utmost fraukuess. usual /
iy when the ladies are an ready TO 20 /
10 some important function. but they
are the exception and not the rule.
Thus one woman. gowned for very
smart affair the other night was re-
Earded 10y the man who had sworn sf .
The altar 20 cherish and protect her with .
a gaze under which sIe became very
FESTIVE
"Is that the gown YOU are going to
wear or Is il a tea Thing for your own
ROOM he asked presently.
1t Is my perfectly new empire gown
Indignantly.
II thought it was wrapper said
the husband, and helped her on with
her coat
isn't your hair coming down.. baI
asked. auxiousiy while he performed /
Ills operation.
eft is not" returned the wife Of his
Agart. cOldly.
ut looks as III 30 were gleeTfuiig re-
piled the husband.
do you feel comfortable AN tied up
around the neck2' he inquired later.
Perfectly, but If YOU say another
word J viii not co." cried the tortured
one, and received her escorts surprised
apologies with such chilly hauteur that
ne soon gave mp the idea OF recOnciIia-
tous and felt the remainder OF the
evening that hs was being silently suub-
bed by the one who was dearest TO him
OF all.
And certainly he deserved this heroic
treatment. LEyNORE CALVERT.
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