Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11

should be like the glance of White Sister through
grated window than the wink Of a Held.
This is wisdom There reasons for these things.
both psychic and physiological into which cannot
60 would without colored charts and lantern slides
The Twentieth Century Girl, even in her gentlemanest
FAM shading her face and hiding the laugh that may tre
BILE her lips Her eyes. dim with thousand dreams.
may look sdewse the edge at the always guessing
man. This is Art
Human Nature in the Dining Room
THOSE who make a study of human nature in dining
sacred to the broiled chop and other shelsh
cannot fail to note at times the of couples who
in the grasp of temperamental upheava that
keeps them at odds with their surroundings.
The is pale and stern above his purple necktie
the girl agitated under her aureoled pompadour In
such the trained waiter brings raw oysters the
only known food that be eaten safely with sobs
accompaniment. No sooner are the condiments ad-
usted than the young woman begins to weep into the
shells she empties the and in another instant the
changes before your very eyes from Gibson pic
ture to a marine view.
And the girl wins! When she powders her nose shifts
and looks into the Mirror she passes under the wire and
the flag falls The still pale and stern and purple but
cowed by moral force which he does not comprehend
looks noby at the label of the catsup bottle. AS they
60 out invisible choir chants the Haleluiah chorus
Now this life done into miniature and it illustrates
the mistake woman makes when she takes anything
emotional in light way, even pretends to do So Had
this pompadoured victress possessed comprehension
of humor she would have been obsessed by sense of
the ridiculous She would not choose restaurant for
quarrel She could not associate oysters and tears She
the lambs home gambling gaiy to be made into
broled chops; but she would win the game. In
plays and books you may see the other situation PIC
tured; but in life weeps for what she gets. This
is what sends SO many suffragettng who want
little extra pocket money far more than they do vote
This is Truth
and and the world of who claim that
they regard husbands merely side line. Those with
abnormal of humor assert that they do not take
men seriously at ALL
This is only another form of the fascinating Sphinx
pose before alluded to- which may be called the Yelled
SOUL for it must not be forgotten that the humorous
woman laughs at herself in her mannsh sleeve.
Rational. Unfunny Girls
THE unfunny girl who looks at life practically
knows that to have all the things she wants. the
frocks and frs the easts and flowers, and to have
nexed trained pay the bills, is lasting joy
than cackng some fantastic phase in the human
vaudeville.
These rational women may know nothing of Bernard
Shaws theories concerning the feminine pursuit OF man.
and may actually have heard of sex Conflicts but
they engaged in actually living out the plan to the
best advantage. They do not rate laughter as an i'm
portant factor in the scheme. They are very busy
They gain the inestimable privilege of being loved.
The woman with humor does not Her own does not
understand her. and the other misunderstands her.
And there is good reason for this. Feminine humor
has way OF degeneratng as 1T becomes pronounced.
The jest easily breaks into the eer and the sally into
without being meant that way The qup is likely
to hurt often than it heals. Feminine humor is
rarely kind, that of man is often. Sometimes with
infinite mystery it grows side by side with decacy and
pathos The late H. c. Bunner and Jerome Jerome give
ample proof in their pages of this enhancing mystery
Mans reasoning power possibly controls his sense OF
fun. Womans runs amuck. woman bank director,
struck with the likeness of the unmatched officers to
vaudeville quartet would gigge out at an important
meeting around portentous conference table with
heavy legs man dons the motley he does his din
ner coat, when the time for it. He is methodic.
almost automatic, in both his joys and his grief
Whoever walks furlong without sympathy, walks
to his own funeral drest in his shroud Whitman
in one of his CHEEKY moods. The who gets the
funny viewpoint of existence may derive certain
thing of the span that her sisters miss; but there
is thing she does get If is sYnlnathY.