The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-29
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON

=! never knew but one girl I liked to
take on a real long walk, loftily an
nounced the boy who takes all-day
| rambles. 1.-THE rest of them expect YOU
to be paying them compliments and
| jollying them all the time. If you don't
talk, they think you're cross, and act
hurt. Now when 1 go with this girl
sometimes we walk two or three miles
without saying single word
The man who marries that girl is the
man who will never have any use for
divorce courts.
For she is undoubtedly one of that
still comparatively small class of wo-
men who know how to be comrades to
men.
If the art of companionship were
such thing that it could be taught
girls and boys in the public schools, /
believe that a big blow would be struck
at one of the roots of the divorce evil
AS rural philosopher puts it:
When men can and will say to their
wives, Come on. old pal O. mine, lets
go to the hillsides where the scarlet
berries hang like drops of blood from
the crimson heart of the wildwood, >
and she will pack up q lunch and put
in the old cob pipe for her chum. you
can bet that couple is not going out to
find a divorce court"
There is sentence in the Bible that
it seems to me has bearing on this
subject.
It is a part of the beautiful tribute of
David to his dead friend Jonathan:
'Thy love to me was wonderful,
passing the love of women"
That meant that David had found
comrade love even more beautiful and
precious than sex love-
In David's day. of course. it was more
or less impossible that the two should
be combined.
But is it now?
In Benson's whimsical little book,
Upton Letters" the bachelor says 10
his married friend in regard to the first
few years of his married life:
'fYou had to learn camaraderie with
your wife, for want of which one secs
dryness creep into married lives, when
the first divine ardors of passion have
died away, and when life has to be
lived in the common light Of day."
Isn't that a beautiful IDEAL for all
young wives and husbands to set them
selves-to learn that camaraderie that
shall keep married life from becoming
boresome. even when the first supreme
excitement of belonging to each other
has passed.
for your future happiness, my newly
married friends?
Have you your living to earn?
Are you earning it in the most con-
genial and lucrative way possible bic
L
question and mo to the second, you
will find it worth your while to con-
tinue reading tonight
otherwise perhaps not.
For this is my night to tell you of
some of the less usual ways in which
women are earning their bread and
butter and, in some cases, cake and
preserves to go with it.
I have several times asked those
among my readers who are earning
their livelihoods in some unusual way
to write and tell me about it, that l
might pass the interesting word along
to their sisters; but 1 have received
surprisingly few responses.
What's the matter?
Are you too busy doing to tell me
about it? If you are: please don't be:
Your sisters need the stimulus and
suggestion of your experience. And
don't you think in gratitude for your
success you are indebted to tell them
about it?
Don't write maybe will write to
her some time
Do II now.
Raising canaries is a way in which
a good many women are either sup
porting themselves or adding pin
money to their husbands incomes
A pair of birds will give from two to
seven nests year with from one to
five birds, and the birds sell from 81
to SO to $40. For pre- winning birds
in England, where there is much more
interest taken in them, $50 is a com
mon price for a bird, and as high as
$3.50 is sometimes given for exception
al birds, but in America such prices
are practically unheard of.
Great care in preparing the food and
cleaning the cage and especial care at
moulting time with, of course, a
knowledge of the birds habits and
needs are required for success.
A woman who learned the bird-rais-
ing business in England came to this
country three years ago with six pairs
of birds.
st now have four times that num-
Der. besides having sold enough to pay