The Cairo bulletin., 1910-06-13
ENDING A
QUARREL

Inere was not a Dill or DOUBT tnat
the young woman was angry. The
more she thought 1t over the angrier
she grew 1t was uncomfortable that
a grownup man could have been so
foolish as to get up quarrel with her
over nothing at alll=for that was what
had happened the evening before.
She didn't in the least know what It
was about, though she had vivid
recollection of his saying 1t was all
her fault and of her insisting that 1t
was his fault. He had had some
weird idea that she had picked the
quarrel herself out Of curiosity as to
what he would do. AT this accusation
she had passed from surprise through
injury to anger. Now In broad day.
light she felt certain that nothing on
earth would tempt her to take one
step toward reconciliation. She would
stand on her dignity, fnasmuch as. she
wasn't to blame.
OF course she felt rather sad about
It, because she was aware that the
man never would give In first and say
he was sorry II he died for 1t and net
Their would she and naturally that
meant the end OF their friendship. Men
did nothing but make one miserable
anyway and she was tired of them.
She was hunting out pamphlet on
social settlement work and was re.
solving to devote her time In future
to clevating the poor and worthy and
appreciative when the postman rang
the bell
The man had written, In very black
ink with pen strokes that shrieked
emphasis, long screed and had had
the effrontery to send 1t to her. He
had headed 1t. IAN Essay on Woman,
by a Cynic." She sat down and un.
folded the sheets Of paper with the
tips Of her disaainful fingers and start
ed to read.
Being cynic," ran the document,
Il can say anything want to about a
woman, and as already have the rep
utation OF being morose and churlish
can sink no deeper In the oblivion Of
feminine disapproval Anyhow. what
care /?
I'm starting a scientific and search
Ing essay such as this we should first
get 1t firmly fixed In our minds what
a woman really Is and the most de.
scriptive words of her which | can
think Of at the present moment are
'doggone peculiar
Nov, having conveyed to my read
ers a mental picture OF woman, SO
that II the reader should chance to be
an inexperienced youth he will imme'
diately cast his eyes elsewhere when
In the presence Of one and thus avoid
large amount of this worlds troubles
| will proceed with my discussion.
'Tn speaking of woman 1t does not
pay to go too much into detail about
her, for most of them are SO different
that 1t makes detailed description
impossible. In fact, have known
them to be different AGO times an hour.
You may rest assured that In the mat.
ter of being different they are all alike
Nov, what effect has this on man
I will tell you 1t maEes cynics of us!
hurl this fact back at the feet OF
femininity, which when 1t wishes to
cast asperslon on man cans him
CYNICAL Cynical! II women care.
fully thought over this word they
would not use It SO gayly, for in real
ity 1t simply means wise-worldly
wise! Yes, friends, we are wise to
the women and this is what makes US
cynical Far be 1t from their intent
to call us wise. though they might ad-
NIT that we are worldly.
81 do not like to talk about woman
this way behind her back, but we all
know that we never would get q
chance to talk If we didn't do 1t be-
hind her back! Cynical! How that
word describes my feelings this dark
gloomy dayl My head Is full of recol'
lections Of how woman fed me com.
pliments last evening until | swelled
up and strutted around like a pigeR~-
and 30 minutes later was nothing
but a shifty-eyed angleworm waiting
to be stepped on!
"All for why2 Because foolish
girl got tired of the plain sailing she
had had for weeks and wanted to stir
UP tempest! She wanted nice lit
tie tempest, one that she could stor
when she chose by waving finger al
II and murmuring: Stop, tempest!
SO she began to rock the boat and
whistle for rough weather. Az last
accounts the tempest YVES still on
though a good brand Of oil tudiciously
applied sometimes has been known Il
calm raging waters. But 1t has to bt
a good quality and applied with
soothing touch"
She folded up the sheets OF paper
and then she laughed in spite of her
self. When she stopped laughing she
said something that sounded like Per
feet idiot" Then she took down the
telephone receiver,
"Hello!" she said when he answered
Come out tonight and bring the
tempest along--I'm going to stop It'll"
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Nature.
TO speak truly, few adult persons
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