Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-03-18
The Tyranny of Tears.

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The Tyranny of Tears.
If you want to trample on the rights
of others: if you are incarnate selfshness
and desire to monopolze the best Of ev-
erythng; if you are determined TO have
Your way whether 1t is right or wrong;
| II you are bound to graUITy your every
whim no matter what Il costs others, nil
you have to do Is just TO sit down and
cry, Tor II, and If It Is within the bounds
Of human possibilities you win get il.
y knowledge of the potency Of tears
seems to be born in us. 1t is the very
first thing that baby finds out in this
foolish old world. By the time he opens
his eyes he begins to shrek for what he
wants and he Shreks and shrieks until
I'll within earshot break their neckS To
fetch it TO him and appease him.
As he grows older he still continues to
cry for what he wants, and he continues
| TO get it. Those about him may know
| that he shouldn't have it, and that it is
bad for him, but to stop his cries they
/ thrust the desired article into his hand.
n let him do as he please. lie con
Quers and rules his little kingdom by the
! tyranny of tears.
As he grows up, as Il general thing
the boy quits weeping because somebody.
for The salvation of society invented the
| theory that it is unmanly for a man to
weep. Here and there. however, we fiud
a mar who still has the ability to shed
! tears that make us his umreSStlhg vie
! Tins.
In our hearts we despiSe him for
Weakling. We know that his hard luck
tale of the world being against him is
buncombe, and that the reason he has al
| ways failed is because he is too lazy and
trltllng to have ever done an honest days
work or made genuine struggle for sue
cess.
Nevertheless, when he weeps our hand
goes down into our pockets, our doors
open to him and we take upon ourselves
the miserable burden of his worthless
ness. Why Simply because we do not
| have the nerve to resist his tears 1t is
! so horrible TO us to see Il man cry that
we hasten to end the sight, as soon ms
! possible, by doing what he wants us
| to do
Beggars always understand the value
! of Gears and although we are perfectly
| aware that the pathetic story of the sick
| wife and nine children under / years of
! age is, i'll many cases, pure fiction, vet
we hand out our dole as . tribute to the
narrators tears, and the best winner who
weeps most realistically, gets the most
money.
| 1t is women, however, in whose hands
| tears are the most effective weapon, and
the one Of which men stand in most alb
DI1ptlce 4
! tyranny of tears that makes the auto
cratic rule of the Gar look mild and be-
| nevolent beside it,
| For, for some ineXplcable reason. men
! simply dissolve and go to pieces in the
hriny drops that fall from women's ewes.
! They may know that she is weeping ONLY
for effect, and that her tears are as nypo-
critical as those of the crocodile. but the
assault on the masculine character is
just the same The man succumbs and
the woman truimphs over him.
| 1t is literally true that if n woman
wishes to manage ner husband and get
the best of everything. there is no other
talent one-hundredth part SO valuable as
| to be born Il natural free WeepGr-oue of
the gifted females whose tear ducts are
hung on Il hair trigger, so to speak. and
that will set off 4 copious shower at the
slightest notice.
a man will stand up and fight Il woman
all day in 4 case where he knows that
he is right and she is wrong; he will
argue with her until he is blue in the
face if she takes an illogical position;
lie win refuse her with adamantine firm
ness if she demands the unreasonable
but only so long as she keeps dry-eyed
Once let her turn on the domestic by
draulics and he is done Tor. He runs M
the white flag at once. He may have
been a thousand times in the right. but
HE is willing to perjure himself and swear
he was wrong, and call himself Il brute:
he may know that her demands are pre-
posterous and unreasonable and are
bound to bring disaster, but he yields
Anything to dam the tears.
Women are perfectly aware that the
water way is ever the easiest way ont
Of a man and they work it for all it is
worth-the more shame to them.
There is nothing really more curious
than the effect OF woman's tears upon
men, and they are not less powerful as
a solvent of masculine good sense and
justice when applied en- masse than upon
the individual
1t is an axiom in a court of law that
any gOOd-loOking female criminal can
float herself out of prison on her tears
when she weeps before jury. The news
papers are daily full of stories of hard
headed businessmen who are swindled
by beauty in distress and who find that
it was an expensive job to wipe away
the tears of widows and female orphans,
and it is the woman who cries for the
diamond crescent ard stars, and the
fool man who tries To get them for
her by stealing from his employer, that
adds another frequent entry into the
police blOtter.
In domestic life it is the woman who
cries who has her foot upon her hus-
bands neck. How many times do we
see her adorned :s c'GtheS far beyond
her means, or breaking up housekeeping
and dragging her poor husband to live
in hotel that he hates or forcing him
to give up some great opportunity in
life because she didn't want to leave
Squeedunk to go to live in the city?
And she cried for what she wanted,
and cried. and cried about what she
didn't want to do. until the husband,
sodden and wet. with all his backbone
melted down under her continuous flow
of tears, gave in and yielded to the
tyranny of tears.
It's great graft-knowing how to
weep-Exchange
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Pity the Children of
Needless and Divorced Parents.
A rather melancholy commentary