The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-23
scheme Of hanging around this dreary

scheme OF hanging around this dreary
dismal plant all the time.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS seem TO wake
up to it that they're making mistakes
until it's too late. and then. whea they've
lost out and all Of their world has come
crashing about their ears. why, they 60
moaning around seeking sympathy and
wailing about how they've been abused
and outraged aud all that sort Of moon
shine. when the whole Internal mess Is
all their own fault. only they haven't
got the logic or the sense OF common
justice to admit 1t.
or course / don't expect to have a Mime.
de Stiel as a wife-oh. you wouldn't
know who she was II l told you-but
sure would like to experience the Salts
faction Of feeling that my wife knew ome
thing more than face powder.
How's that? I've always said that
despised pufy-wufy women that thought
they had brains. and I've said that I'd
as soon be married to a green ~grasshopper
as to a intellectual woman Of any species.
and every time 1 come into contact with
a oma like that I try to bully her aud
refuse to treat her civilly and
Oh, go ahead. Go right ahead, Put
things in my mouth. Put the whole
Koran and Talmud in my mouth. I'm
used to it. I'm used to everything.
When you get through. perhaps
you'll be good enough 10 permit me
to stick in the statement that ] never
In my life said any such a thing as that
l didn't like intellectual ONE What
I may have said was that / didn't like
women Of the b~luestocking variety.
There's a heap OF difference between
the two. but l haven't got the time or the
inclination to draw up diagrams showing
you those differences.
Why do you have to bark back at
me in that way when open my lace
and say a few little needed things to
you. anyhow? Why do you persist in
following that comeback SYSTEM
l haven't said n word that's UNFAIR
or unreasonable. have |? | haven't
uttered one syllable that isn't absolutely
true. have !?
Well. then. Is II necessary. when l
talk wholly for your own good nj en-
tirely with the view to getting you 10 see
the desirability OF improving yourself,
for you to turn on me with that enraged
expression and begin to quote things
that | never said in my life or even
thought of saying?
How's that? l Used to say that l
wouldn't give a snap for a IN who
had nothing to say for herself in an
argument?
There you 90 again! may have been
pulpnut to say something like that, but
it must have been a whole passed. Of years
ago. it sure must We. Heaven knows I've
had enough argufying with you since l
got that idiotic remark out Of my system,
IL I really did say it.
I've learned my little lesson since then.
I've had to sing pretty small around here
for 80 long that sometimes don't recog-
nize the sound OF my own voice e
I speak in a natural tone downtown. and
il I should ever
Oh, pshaw! The whole business. es
I've said time and again. and az [ repeat,
is my own fault. and it all serves me
perfectly right. Here, for example. after
swearing OF on that fool business a
million times. I'm engaged again in an
argument with a woman.
Well. maybe I'll learn some time. Maybe
by the time they're ready to carry me out
feet foremost I'll have learned just aban
enough to last me over night. and that's
n hout all