The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01


and there's no denying it.
few days ago l CHANGED to be
calling upon a friend of mine who had
just been to the hair dressers and
her husband arriving before my visit
was over, after greeting us politely,
Immediately asked for the morning
paper and proceeded to his den. adj
joining the room we were in, and at
once became absorbed in its contents.
No sooner had he seated himself than
his wife asked him how he liked her
coiffure.
That he was reading the stock quo
tations was very evident to me from
the reluctant manner in which he with
drew his attentions and said husband
like:
It's arranged the same old way,
isn't it?'
Certainly not" she replied. Its
quite new way. You know perfect
ly well I've been wearing a lot of
puffs and today my hair is arranged
with a braid"
Plainly her hubby's thoughts were
with Common Steel or whatever the
creatures are called, but realizing that
it was up to him to say something
Company being presently he finally
murmured- an incoherent opinion about
mot thinking it looked quite as well
as usual thus coiffed" and suffered a
relapse by burying himself knee deep
In the newspaper once more.
1t was the very next day that
bunch of women happened to be to-
gether and as Fate would have it we
were discussing hair dressing just as
the aforesaid lady appeared on the
scene.
You know my hair was a perfect
dream yesterday, braided around my
head, and 1 was so pleased that L
| Immediately invested in a very hand
some braid only to find when / got
home that Augustus didn't like the
| style at all, and he simply would not
allow me to wear 1t and so like an
cbedient wife I have gone pack to
| the old manner of arranging my hair
and l feel like l came out OF Noahs
ark. Aren't husbands strenuous, any
way?" she inquired
| And all the other six ladies like the
"six little wives that some big fat man
| used to sing about with Jimmy Pow
ers in one of his funny musical COM
edies, began to "kotow" and 'salaa,n"
and mummur that it mattered not what
an inconvenience 1t was to ones self
one had to conform to ones husbands
| taste in dress as In everything else
and I wondered how many of the six
dutiful wives really believed the story
| they were telling themselves
Don't you hear women every day ex-
pressing the most remarkable opinions
as emanating from their husbands with
which am sure those delectaple gen.
tlemen could they hear them would be-
| Immensely surprised at being credited?
No people in the world know this
more thoroughly than the dressmsk er
and the milliner who could tell many
| tale about how prominently husbands
| figure in the conversation Of their
clientele. When gowns are unsatisfac.
tory and hats when they have been
taken home don't suit, then under those
circumstances not even the most mil
| itant suHragette in the advanced stages
scorns to drag her husbands name into
the conversation and regale the shop
keeper with his views on the subject.
How could any woman wear a gown
| like that, Madame" says the dutiful wife
10 the courtiere, when John hates the
very sight OF It, Why. he would be so
| unhappy he couldn't live, and 1 don't
want to make him anything but happy
when he pays the bills so cheerfully-
the dearn'
or course. the milliner, who is nothing
II not clever, feels deep down in her heart
| that the aforesaid John has never even
SO much as expressed an opinion on the
subject of the chapeau, but the Eighty
| lady having once gotten the bonnet home
front of her own mirror. decides that it
Is not Just exactly what she wants and
| quietly hides her dissatisfaction behind
her better halfs manly back.
young woman who is one of the
foremost charitable workers in our city
recently told me that when she got ready
| to raise funds for a certain enterprise
that she didn't know there were as many
husbands in the whole wide world as she
| had poked at her In the course of this
campaign.
why, would you believe it?" she said
In discussing the matter, Husbands
whose names hadn't heard mentioned in
years were resurrected for this occasion
and were quoted as opposed to charity
| In any form particularly If their wives
had to sell tickets, even for that sort
that covers a multitude of SINS"
AS there are two sides to every ques-
ton, 1t forms rather a pleasing contrast
to talk with the oft-quoted husbands
upon these self-same subjects and
and see the surprise when these revela-
lions are made known and the painful at
titude they assume.
Surely, my wife couldn't have said that
1 approved of woman suffrage" said one
bealted spouse in discussing this popu-
lar theme. Il have told her repeatedly
that I thought woman's true sphere
was in her home with her husband and
her children. And as for saying that I
refused to let her wear a Wistaria gown
Tut! tut.-she is evidently mistaken.
What is wistaria, any way? 1t might be
new brand of breakfast food or rec
ord for the Victrola, for all know. She
probably asked me the question when
was busy and didn't hear what she said
and only made the reply because /
thought she wanted me to-
Could duplicity go further?
Still, II one can't take liberties with
ones own life partner, with whom can
one?
To quote a friend one must be absolute
ly accurate as it is the same az quoting
distant relative. who II they have de-
clared against a high tariff or that they
dislike Gregorian music and you state
otherwise. they will at once turn again
end rend you.
But with ones husband-he's different!
In his good humors he admits kindly that
he Is part and parcel of one and wife
is excusable for taking few liberties