The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-20


business that completes with it. There
is none other that resembles it. 1t is
great game-second not even to
being a woman. To be any sort Of
man is to be something that nobody
else nor anything else can be. The
style of the tribe is inimitable; but
one cast in the mold.
Though the weaker sex appear to
envy us and our lot, and while we
can't much blame them, yet this scribe
/ would say, after mature elaboration,
that being a man isn't what it's
cracked I'D to be. The other fellow
| always has the most desirable name,
| the best luck and the easiest job, from
our point of viewl
| The longer I think about 1t the more
firmly convinced am I that a mans lot
in many instances is more to be wept
over than winked at. He catches it ON
the tender side of the head from the
| cradle to the grave. He is sneered at
for his shortcomings and seldom ap-
plauded for his long ones.
When a kid it's willie, bring in
some kindling. Willie fan the flies off
the baby's face while he sleeps. Willie
get up and make fire-it's o'clock
Willie run over to Mrs. Longshorts
and borrow some beef for breakfast
Willie why in the world don't you
keep your clothes tidy, your face clean
and your hair combed? My goodness
son, you are becoming the worst boy
in the community
And thousands of others of which
the above orders are but fair sample
He gets a licking if he fails to execute
a single order. He is knocked off the
back door steps by father if he makes
faces at "suster" or tickles the feet Of
the fat infant crawling around over
the kitchen floor.
Later both legs grow out Iong
enough to reach the ground and as {
consequence he must be tortured witt
wearing his first pair of long trousers
1t is there that he begins to make
eyes at the 16-year-old pullets who are
now curling their abbreviated tresses
and it is then that his real troubles be
gin, though he hasn't yet been en-
dowed with sense enough to know it.
He grows older-as is natural-ant
he becomes mannish. He secures ;
job that pays probably $40 or $50 pc
I month. He begins to puff death tack
4 imported fresh from Turkey. The hal
begins to lie close to either side of th'
head, lodging the ditch to the cente
Of his bean. He buys some prett.
j clothes-a $14 hand-me-down if yol
4 please-followed with a red neckti
I and the relics Of what was a man
4 sized hat, in time. He takes the it'll
4 female to the show and sinks SO 70
! tickets-then a dinner after the pei
q Torrance and by the time he i
through with the evenings ordeal h
is out the $4.65 he borrowed from
4 friend and which he cannot return 70
y two months. o no! the girl neve
pays for anything, except in smile
. and giggles. And nothing has beel
said yet of the box of candy he carrie
up once a week, nor the $3.50 b
9 spends Sunday afternoon with tn
liveryman. All these are regarded a
; actual expenses''-other out-goes /be
!. ing looked upon as "incidentals''. don
you know-and the incidentaIs amour
to snug little sum by the end of tn
year.
They stroll down the street-thi
couple. She spies a pretty neckTac
on display in the jewelers. window an
she remarks about it's being Just pc
fectly loyely"-and as a consequence
another heavy dent is made on hi
Then some wise old fox drops a blu
in the ear of this young man, the flu
ter of whose wings seems to say
Two can live as cheap as one" an
"a man amt no good and is only
r half man until he becomes the part
of the second part to a marriage col
tract He marries-yes, he marries
He starts out in double harness wit
vi
( hanging over his head, but his week
stipend has been augmented and no
he is making SIS or $40 a week. f
n. must pay off those debts, buy a stow
three straight chairs, two rockers, an
ar dozens of other Similar household n
is cessities, besides the weekly supply
groceries. He endures all this with
stiff upper lip all in fond anticipate
of the early death of wifes rich uncl
Is But this individual who is his k
l. folks, goes to European resort ar
N takes out new ten-vear lease on lif
in and time proves the lease valid! III
II is followed with a visit from Hone
re bunch's ma who has decided opinion
III On politics, business and domestic
Being bold, she hesitates not to e
press said opinions. Being tuckson
and forty, she will not die. It beir
- the house of her daughter she will n
leave. She will stay a while i0nger
= be sure that Willie sticks to hfls-pleds
= not to indulge the expensive luxury
J pipe. Willie's torture is at high til
here. Such is part OF the rev ard f
being a mana married man, if W
say.
Early Stages.
When a child he had to lie to h
"a parents to protect his back. When
- youth and a fiirt he had to telf-tl
ze blonde that she was his ideal, and tt
w only blondes were attractive to hi
le subsequently repeating the same to t
I'd brunette. 1t is there that ma,
e- hypocrisy and sham first takes roo
e- and sticks to him to help him {
ir when he hath become a Benedict a
Ks a business man.
e. This is ore phase of the sort of
st man nature used in the makeup