The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-18

''fier hueba nd the rclator she preferred
Before the angel; he. she knew would
Grateful depression. and solve high dis
putc
With conjussl caresses,"
Did she? Well. if that isp I The love
Iiesf idea Think cf preferring mere
husbund TO a black-eyed angel Of the
early Hebraic administration who was,
according 10 John Milton, in position
to tell the most interesting stories!
/ wonder. honestly. If John Milton
knew what he was talking about Did
he understand women? Or did he Just
take his early Puritan ideal OF what
woman ought TO be nut clean. white
dress on it, do its hair up into halo,
extract all human intelligence from its
head and carefully replace il with q
preference for reading about how to
make home happy, and making angel
food cake. ard put the product on a
pedestal and lei it go al that7
That 3 what lots and lots of men do
today. and we re ever so many genera
tiops advanced over what the men of
.Ie an Milton s time ever. dared TO be
What are YOU laughing at? | didn I
say improved did j? | said cad
vanced. -
Do YOU really fancy Eve preferred to
stay out in the kitcbenette cooking the
extracted the first proofs of that inter
cstiug story from the ange7 Honestly,
would you think such a thing about
Eyci
Why, inst remember for minute
what happened a little later. on when
the serpent tossed a pebble up at her
window and begged her to come out for
aehat. She came, didn t she? She Just
came.
But, maybe, by that time the honey"
moon had worn off tho silver bit, 80
the poor thing would have been willing
to chat with almost anyone, even a
Shiny thing like the serpent. because If
she didn t open her mouth TO somebody
pretty soon. she ID lose the power Of
speech entirely.
You can I tell Sometimes it is that
way. I think that s how intimate an
gels and pet snakes get to coming
around in the first place.
And listen, my dears! ] am talking
about what John Milton said in g Para:
disc Lost He didn write the Old
Testament Though some seem to fancy
that he had hand in it,
When ] read that melifluous bit of
melody from Milton the other day it
was as dessert TO an excessively cay
enneified divorce story in the daily
press. in which the poor young defend
ant, aged about 50 years, declared be.
fore high heaven and many interested
spectators that she would never have
looked at the pet snake she was accused
of cherishing il Adam had ever seemed
to know her from a hand embroidered
sofa cushion, or brocaded lambrequin.
or a carved early English taboret, and
had spoken to her kindly once in blue
moon, instead of grunting at her when
he came in-maintaining. while in. a
solid silence you could not cut with a
knife, bnt must take an AK to shatter-
and removing himself from his happy
home as rapidly as possible with n
yearninr look in his eve as of one fly
ing to his only loye-though she knew
perfectly well he was only going to his
Office. there to make plenty more money
for his family, his family consisting of
her.
Queer. wasn't il. that the lady in
rharticlcr red and John Milton in mis-
blark velvet suit with the snowy ruffles
ut his wrists should have arrived at the
same idea of woman S heart!
And yet. at first glance, | was going
to denounce the idea as altogether false
and baseess and founded upon the no.
tion that many men are afflicted with
the notion that we are not humans. just
women.
He saws Eve would rather talk to