The Green Forest tribune., 1909-10-15

tain jobs of the men who were sup porting families, have come to the con clusion that they are ambitious to at tain economic independence.
 Another thing frequently insisted on by women writers and women think CTS alike is that modern man is tickle beyond all understanding. They claim that the deathless love, sung by the poets and dilated upon by the TO- mancer, simply does not exist. That most marriages, after all, are founded upon convenience and habit Women are generally lauded as being far the more faithful and long suffering of the two sexes. The correspondents col umns of the metropolitan dailies are full of letters from wives who write tearfully that their husbands are wearying of them, although they have been married only year or two. The burden of the pleas that come up from among these worried wives seems to be the old poetical phrase slightly changed, Love is of mans life but part, 'tis woman's whole ex- istence." But if these women talk to their husbands as freely as they write 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 a 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 fife of 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 it, 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 so- cial life has been giving these social evils it's attention But the scientists admit the impulses of mans character run so deep in raw human nature that remedy is well-nigh impossible. 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 or tho 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 feshings were just as strong drawing card as the comic artist of all these years has been telling us. The shows that con- tained 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 wifey was away. q love, 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 Classes.
 And the staid bankers, brokers and dry-goods men would stand on the seats and beat one another over the