Evening star., 1911-08-27

sisters, uninterrupted by any
feelings such as envy, hatred, malice
and all uncharitableneSs, comes now
lady who claims in print that we. on
the other hand. do not in many cases
so love each other. and that the reason
of this unfriendlineSS is man.
She declares that some of us are so
evilly instructed and brought up in so
ill-judged a manner that we look upon
a mere nice man something holy,
sacred and more to be priced than much
fine gold, and that many times, although
having no individ dual man in hand, as 1T
were, at the time, yet, nevertheless, the
very thought that there might be such
a man, and that some other woman
might take him away from us, causes
us to become rabid and run amuck
among the characters and regulations OF
our intimate friends, biting, as 1T were.
right and left, and thus, so far as we
can see. ridding ourselves Of all pos
sible rivals.
1t has always seemed to me that
nothing in life could be worth biting
another woman and injuring her feel
ings like that. And yet there Is scarce
ly one Of us who has passed the con-
fines of the earliest youth who has not
had occasion to note two or more
sisters who have heretofore used the
same curling iron in amity and divided
up the available lace handkerchiefs
in the friendliest spirit suddenly fore
gather in a state of mind that might
be mildly described as dangerous,
simply because one Of them has met a
mere young man whom the otherS
haven't had chance at yet, or some
young man whom they nave all had a
chance at concludes all at once that he
dearly loves one of them. while regard
ing the others simply as sisters.
This set of sisters has, right before
our very eyes. suddenly dfslntegrated
and become single and imperative en-
titles. each demanding of the other why
she should be thus wronged and con-
tinuing the demand until the season, ike
as not, when some other young man or
young men appears or appear. upon the
horizon headed their way, and they nave
one more chance at bliss
In considering this important question
one is led to ask what there is among the
man folks which gives rise to such or
similar feelings and emotions ana re-
sultant conduct.
The answer is not far to seek. There IS
among the man folks but one set or
circumstances which clearly and unmis-
takably corresponds with this. And TINS
may be briefly and clearly described as
interrupting the profitable passage of the
pay envelope, or. in still palmer terms,
taking from man his meal ticket.
Eliminate this motif from the various
and sundry motifs that actuate the man
folks and you at one and the same stroke
eliminate the bitterness of conflict. which
is, one might say without undue ex-
aggeration, q bitterness as of death.
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Destroy or calm into quietude In
mans mind the thought that some 9TH
er man is going to get in the way fatally.
or at least half fatally. of any of his
financial plans or intentions, and you
have taken from him his severest woe
and robbed his natural suspicion of his
fellow-man of half its poignancy.
Let US then, applying the method of
comparison so much in vogue among the
capable kindergartners of this broad
land, inquire "Of what do we find that
one woman can deprive another that
brings about q situation in any way
akin to this commercial or business an
tagonism among the man folks?"
The answer is clear-her meal ticket.
You once take from man his proud pre-