Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-22
THE NEW SONG OF SOLOMON

and man she keeps in state of strange
seryitude
Man was the first, saith the singer;
he came fresh and uncouth from heaven;
but woman was the finished product.
She knoweth all the lodges; the birds
the beasts, the fishes yield her valuable
hints, whereby she proiteth to mans
discontinue. said in my haste, all
women are to be avoided, not knowing
the difficulty
Woman declareth an eternal warfare
She will not let man rest; all his peace
is gone when she casteth upon HIM.
Woe unto him that stitch in the quiet
places with his pipe! He has no wish
to be married; his life is complete
Yet suddenly a woman espies him
yea, looks GENEROUSLY at him; at first he
may not tremble, but verify his number
is up.
She waiteth for him in the unexpected
corners of the earth; though he avoid
her, yet she waylayeth him.
In the country lanes where he would
wander, there she is-yea, dark country
lanes, leafy and tempting, especially
after dusk
He is tempted, he loseth his head; she
looleth at him verify from laughing
eyes, and his balance has gone.
He holdeth fer hand and thinketh it
heaven; he looks into her eyes, and sees
therein what he thinketh none other
man hath ever beheld. He kisseth her
lips-at first nervously, after the man
ner of men.
In his heart he believeth he loveth
her; to his bosom companions he boast
eth of it. Peradyenture, saith he, have
subdued her
Thou fool, knowing not woman!
Some day he viii take her to a dance,
that he may astonish his friends He
waltzeth with her lovingly; he stitch
out until seventy times seven.
He fetcheth her ices from the hpr;
and, yea, when other men who oppose
him, like stricken and blinded, he useth
the words that leadeth not to salvation.
Chastisement inficteth he blindly, for
he thinketh himself the only man in
love, not knowing woman.
And the woman she sitteth demlrely !;
maiden blush bespreadeth her face.
She meellly and humbly acknowledged
his mastership; but the While she laugh
eth in her sleeve.
In her heart doth She exceedingly re-
joice, and her demeanor to other WON
en- is overbearing.
For, saith she in gestures, | am the
salt of the earth; We virgins, that are
but amateurs at the business, look at
me and be We consciously envious. / am
a superior person, for 10, l have caught
a man.
| have humbled man to his discom
future; | have beguiled another of our
primal enemies. My slightest whim is a
command; my gentlest hint an order. !
| twist him round my little finger-yea,
with the pinky nails; lead him by the
nose.
Yet withal he does not know it, for he
is ignorant, as with men,
He loveth her TO his home he BRING
eth her and showeth her to his people
! In his introduction there is much
Wanting and some pride; he wisheth to
| impress his mother and his sisters with
his love, not knowing that his mother
and his sisters are, too, women.
| And that one generation of women is
! like unto the next and the next.
Towards his sisters he is gentle where
| formerly he was rough; he Iisteneth ia
their songs-yea, the songs OF violets and
SO forth, with the air OF a connoisseur
for he believeth that he has mastered
one woman
Therefore doth he understand and toll
crate the rest.
Thou fool; Are not thy sisters
women? And do they not too despise
thee in their hearts?
| He goeth to her house on Sabbaths in
his best clothes; his frocll coat donnetl
| he then-the which he never weareth
on his head he shoveth a pot hat, and
! the perspiration runneth down his fore.
head and his back
| His collar choketh him.
/ Peradventure he is presentable; he
meeteth her mother and her sisters, and
4 they too despise him, though outwardly
/ they are charming.
| For her mother and her sisters. are
! they not women also. that delighteth in
mans humiliation?
And he meeteth her father, giving him
| cigars. Him doth her father like, sing.
/ ing the praises of his dear beloved daugh.
| ter, for her must her father get from OFF
| his hands, but iuwardly doth her father
! sympathize with the young man, for he
too hath been through the mill.
And the lover taketh her to theaters
and the upper parts of the river. spend
ing his wage ahead-yea, months ahead
She dresseth in strange confections, her
! bosom heaveth under lace
Presently cometh the quarrel. inevita-
bic in its painfulness; for a week all is
over, the light is gone from his eyes.
Every morn weigheth he himself, for
his frame thinneth; cigars lose their
flavor and pipes their deleetabIeness. He
tetcheth signs of ineffable sadness; his
! life is over.
With his lips he curseth her, but in
| his heart. who can tell?
She ehuckleth all the time. Behold
it Is but ruse a part of her triekery,
for well knoweth she to strengthen his
bond. She trieth him by fire, knowing