Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1911-01-13
ENDING A
QUARREL


more she thought it over the angrler
she grew It was inconceivabIe that
a grown-up man could have been so
foolish as to get up quarrel with her
over nothing at all-for that was what
had happened the evening before.
She 'idn'i in the least know what it
was about. though she had a vivid
recollec ION of his saying it was all
her fault and of her insisting that 1t
was his fault He had had some
weird idea that she had picked the
quarrel herself out of curiosity as to
what he would do At this accusation
she had passed from surprise through
injury to anger Now in broad day
light she felt certain that nothing on
earth would tempt her to take one
step toward reconciliation. She would
stand on her dignity. inasmuch as she
wasn't to blame
OF course she felt rather sad about
IT, because she was aware that the
man var would give in first and say
he was sorry If he died for II and uei-
Their would she and naturally that
meant the end Of their friendship Men
did nothing but make one miserable
anyway and she was tired of them
She was hunting out a pamphlet on
social settlement work and was re-
solving to devote her time in future
to elevating the poor and worthy and
appreciative when the postman rang
the bell
The man had written, in very black
ink with pen strokes that shrieked
emphasis. long screed and had had
the effrontery to send it to her He
had headed it. IAN Essay on Woman,
by Cynic" She sat down and un-
folded the sheets of paper with the
tips of her disdanful fingers and start
ed to read
Being cynic." ran the document,
81 can say anything I want to about
woman, and as | already have the rep
utation of being morose and churlish
| can sink no deeper in the oblivion of
feminine disapproval Anyhow. what
care I?
"In starting scientific and search
ing essay such as this we should first
get it firmly fixed in our minds what
a woman really is and the most de-
scriptive words of her which | can
think of at the present moment are
'doggone peculiar.
Nov, having conveyed to my read
ers a mental picture of a woman. so
that if the reader should chance to be
an inexperienced youth he will imme-
diately cast his eyes elsewhere when
in the presence of one and thus avoid
a large amount of this worlds troubles,
will proceed with my discussion.
"In speaking of woman it does not
pay to go too much into detail about
ler. for most of them are so different
hat it makes a detailed description
impossible In fact. | have known
hem to be different 400 times an hour.
You may rest assured that in the mat
er of being different they are all alike.
Now, what effect has this on man?
will tell you it makes cynics Of usl
hurl this fact back at the feet of
which when it wishes to
asst aspersion on man calls him
ynical, Cynical, If women care
ully thought over this word they
,ould not use it so gayly. for in real
" it simply means wise-worldly
Use! Yes. friends, we are wise to
he women and this is what makes us
ynical, Far be it from their intent
, call us wise, though they might ad-
lit that we are worldly.
Il do not like to talk about woman
lis way behind her back, but we all
now that we never would get
nance to talk if we didn't do it be-
ind her back Cynical, How that
ord describes my feelings this dark,
oomy day. My head is full of recol-
ctions of how a woman fed me com
iments last evening until l swelled
D and strutted around like a pigeon
Id 80 minutes later | was nothing
1t shifty-eyed angleworm waiting
be stepped on
IAN for why? Because a foolish
ri got tired of the plain sailing she
Id had for weeks and wanted to stir
a tempest, She wanted a nice lit
: tempest one that she could stop
hen she chose by waving a finger at
and murmuring; Stop. tempestr
she began to rock the boat and
listle for rough weather At last
counts the tempest was still on,
ough a good brand of oil judiciously
piled sometimes has been known to
I'm raging waters. But it has to be
good quality and applied with
othing touch"
She folded up the sheets of paper
d then she laughed in spite of her.
L.. L..
d something that sounded like Per
t idiot" Then she took down the
ephone receiver
'Hello," she said when he answered
ome out tonight and bring the
npest along-I'm going to stop it,"