The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-04-10

| when he finally makes the decision to
take the final leap for life Tor any
| thing less strenuous with which you
| may possibly wish to soften it, YOU
| remember we took the type of very
! prosperous man, who instead of liV-
| ing around at very cheap, very I'M
satisfactory boarding houses, hangs
| out at the good hotels
| We took the man who really might
| have to he called upon to actually
make sacritices-the worth while man
/ who really means something truly
| landed when the glad female finally
lows him triumphantly TO the altar
not the average thirdrate boarding
house product, who generally Jumps
at the chance of most anything, oh
Lord, in the way of a change!
1t isn't much of feather in girls
cap, do you think, in playing the
| guardian angel or conquering hero
act in a case like that?
| We're going to take, too, the fairly
prosperous little business lady, she of
| independence, and consider. for in
| stance, the sacrifices which SHE may
| just possibly have to make when she
| assumes the festive yoke which puts
here on the down and out list some
| times-and great many times, so it's
| written.
| If she isn't living in a we'll appoint
| ed home, the home of her parents, or
a home by adoption, she. too, lives at
the hotels according to the latter day
regime.
From the instant she arises in the
! morning until she snaps off the
switch of the electric lights at
| night, she moves in an ideal atmos-
| phere of ease and satisfaction.
| She doesn't have to consider the
why nor the where nor how nor any
| thing about it.
| Even the water which steams from
| the bath fixtures, kept bright and tidy
| by somebody else, has been heated to
| her liking in the remote regions of
somewhere downstairs.
| The room itself is in a shining
state of perfection-and she takes
this, too, as matter of course-a
mere minor detail.
| If she has wish to transfer or
thought to-. express to the outside
world-if. perchance, she wishes to
breakfast in her room, there is the
| telephone at her elbow-her's to COM
! mand.
/ When she leaves for the downtown
business scrimmage, and her room
presents the appearance of small
that it will be magically spick and
span when she sees it again.
/. An elevator takes her to the first
floor. where, in turn, doors fly open
for her approach.
If SHE, too, wishes sometimes to
throw up HER hands and escape from
the world in a perplexing moment,
she, too. may wrap the folds of her
kimona about her and lie down
to pleasant-or unp1easant-dreams,
her retreat being complete except for
the. telephone, and that, you know,
may be easily throttled.
III 1t doesn't matter very much what
she wants. il she's really successful
because there is only herself to con-
suit. and she gets it.
She has a great many more invita-
tons out than she really cares about,
because being a business woman les
sens her appetite somewhat for still
more and more of the world, and she
prefers congenial one or two or
three, with Bohemian atmosphere,
perhaps. of comradeship.
This is the way this particular type
of woman goes on and on, pretty
much at her own sweet will, and with
lofty independence which is good to
feel.
II
thusiastic over the project of taking q
chance shot at periodic and possibly
heeting love in cottage with an
occasional thunderous query concern
| ing a certain five-cent piece that he
gave her three weeks ago?
Do you think that she is much con-
cerned at the prospect of continuing
to let other people do for her what
would fall in line with her house
hold duties?
Do you. truly, blame her for being
trifie "leary," trifie speculative, a
wee bit calculating in this particular
game which the world and its people
will somehow keep on playing?
Do you?
Once the right sort of little woman,
the true little sport makes the
change, however. if she's made of the
right stuff, of course, she most gen.
orally stick to her bargain-some-
times much longer than she ought to
such are a woman's ideas of honor,
generally, regarding the contract into
which she has entered,
True, and sad. too, she can't (witn-
out hearing about it from the mascu-
line side of the situation) hang her
false hair over the chairs or the bed
!
yore-she can't very well bristle pro-
miscuously with belligerent looking
curl papers around her personal sane
forum any more without damaging
the general effect somewhat; and she
assumes duties and duties, OF course,
along with the man.
. But she gains some, too.
Before her marriage, when attract,
ed by an especially energetic, espec-
tally congenial, say masculine, mind,
il she mildly INDUCED her special
squirt OF enthusiasm and cultivated
him for the pleasure of something I'M
usual and out of the beaten track,
. people said warily and suspiciously,
she means to marry that young
man." which kept her under sort OF
public surveillance, you see, ridicul-
Gus sort of public embarrassment.
Once married, people don't general
~ attribute Norman Or bigamous pro-