The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
MANS SELF SHNESS
WARMING TO WOMEN
Observant Wife Takes Tren-
chant Thrust at Content
ed Bachelor.

To the Editor of The Washington Tines
In the bout between the Lady ct Ro-
nance and the Contended Bachelor.
who will have none of her. I think the
married woman has been treated rather
unjustly.
She has been made the buffer, a posi-
ton which she religiously fills in life,
but vigorously denies in this connec-
ton. If there is to be a last word in
this controversy L presume it will be
womans, and I would like to say it,
and II I may, L will follow the prescrib-
ed method OF procedure and begin by
describing myself.
I am the mother Of three small boys
(who viii probably grow large enough
in time to deride my housekeeping,
and the wife of an itinerant and inter-
mittent husband, who does not do much
In the way OF fur coats and violet
toQues.
She Is Observant.
Though necessarily a busy woman I
still find time to be an observant one,
and the almost invariable result of my
observations has been Nifey's face at
the window watching Tor hub5y's un-
scheduled return.
And it is right here that I want to
point the pen of scorn at the Bachelor
who affirms it TO be otherwise.
j may not know this one in person.
but / have a certain and adequate
knowledge of his kind, and / accuse him
of two heinOus, but not hopeless, Of
lenses, of being caIIow and hOmebDund
He is certainly callow, for ne would
speak so confidently of irrevocable deci-
sions to look and then not leap, had be
ever been ia love.
Had he ever experienced that state
fTNgT T<t,
Faith, and Charity he would not have
so much hope for himself, so little
faith in the Lady of Romance, and such
an utter lack of charity for the darried
Woman.
He may shut himself up in his Office
and send forth unfiedged cynicisms
about the female Sex, single, married
and divorced. but II he is all that he
says he Is, let him beware, for his dav
will surely come.
Woman Who Loves
But / am not writing in behalf " the
lady who has not been loved; she can
amply defend herf.elf. and. besides. he
revenge will CONT. L have taken up the.
cudgels In defense of the one who has
been lOved-the Married Woman who,
coupled with the divorce court ara ALI
mony, is held UP az a Justification for.
bacherlorhood by a callow, home5ound
bachelor.
/ feel sure that cut Of inexperience
grew these little Trombone thrusts at
my poor poor, long-suffering kind feci
sure that Few sisters. or more DOS
sibly, few sisters-in-Iaw. have fur
nished the point Of view Of our young
reViler, and that his observation has
been neither varied nor for long
Let him look moe closely at the
young wives and mothers of TO-DAY
studying all the arts OF beauty and
health, better TO please that eternal
Turk, the husband: studyisE al of the
sporting sheets and society columns,
better TO companion that exacting brute
the man; reading ell of the books on
baby-feedinG and nursery training. bet-
ter TO rear that little migrate. the child
Let him look at the young wives and
mothers IN the suburbs. sans heat. sans
lght, sans coSh, sans everything rails
ing a fFesh-air brood and buying a
home The bargain counters do not
claim her; indeed, she does not see them
except in the day-oid aiItrremeut of the
advertising page.
Her Life Is Busy.
She is busy, her life is a really stren,1-
Gus one, and her pleasures few and far
between. Let him look for her even in
the despised pages Of the Woman's
Home Journal. the Ladies' Companion.
where her achievements are exclusively
chronicled-
There ne Will find hsr, keeping her
babies well, making her aouse beautiful
and her table tempting. Let him look
Tor her where he will fiLd her most
not Just in his own cowardly beat from
home 10 office and back again.
All. Mr.. Bachelor, had ycI seen very
much or very far, you woUid not have
used the married woman as a resSon
for avoiding matrimony, FOR she can
give you out or her own experience the
real true reasonable unmltigated sell
fishness of man.
MARRIED WOMAN