The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-11-04

the domestic establishment, maQe us
laws, interpreted them like high
court and administered them. Being
the silent member the wife found no
other way to relieve herself than to
a camphor bottle and boo-hoo until
she had pain In the stomach and
her eyes frightfully red. Then she
would draw one final sigh. broken up
into half a dozen sections, and hurry
to the kitchen to resume her inter-
rupted duties.
"She sniveled through the long win
tiers, sobbed when the birds were
singing in the spring, wept from
| planting time until after harvest In
the fall, and were it not for her gen
orally good constitution she would
have been under the weeping willows
| before she was thirty.
when woman of that period went
| out to do a little shopping it was GUS
| tomary for the husband to go along
and of course carry the wallet. She
would timidly buy l6 cents worth OF
| needles and thread, and he, with a
flourish would slowly unwind the
| strap from the pocketbook and count
1 out the change, take the package and
hand It to her, and she in turn would
sigh her thanks forfthis evidence OF
| generosity and love.
"lt is a trae picture that have UNI
| dertaken to draw--true every word OF
| It. No wonder that women went
around with graduated eyelids and
f1uttered sigh with every tenth
breath
Old Order Of Things Changed.
"Of course, 1t was inevitable that
women would get away from this con-
dktion of ortentimes self-imposed de-
preston. They JUST hadto wake up.
The old order of things had to pass.
The great sisterhood of American
women has stepped out OF 1.-the
shadows into the sunlight and 1t is
getting something real and good out
of life now, N<H''
| 1T would he inaccurate to say that
women have given up crying alto
gether, but they have progressed to a
point where they no longer have
nerves forever on edge and tears for
yer on tap.
Now | will tell you how think It
came about. Mental stimulus has
done it. Just so soon as a woman
ceases to imagine that she is the most
utterly forlorn and unhappy person
in the world she is bound to get q
new angle on herself Women today
have minds for other things than
themselves They are not worrying
over what they used to call their sad
fate. They are thinking about others.
about matters Of some moment, about
books and plays and gardens and
happiness, .and when they give to
these things all the time they deserve
there are no spare moments for lone
ly moaning. accompanied by shifts.
Exit the Day of the Tear
There are in round numbers $4,000
clubwomen In New York. @Do you
suppose any of them will spot lace
handkerchief with tear today? Not
one How many of the bright-eyed
young business women-stenograph
ers, typewriters, clerks, Office assist
ants and all the others4-do you inn
agine will go to business this morn
ing wondering whether, they will find
time for good cry during the day
Not one, unless she Is III. How many
of the shopgirls Oh the east side and
in Brooklyn do you suppose will &C
shifting to theip work today? Not
one. They are too busy"
| DR.. McNutt took number OF books
from the top OF her desk and dropped
one upon another with slam.
There" she said, ARE seven anti
dotes for tears. II you want others
there are the newspapers. I'm
great believer in novels read q lo
of them. They give me Just the kline
Of mental thrill that Is good for me
A good, clean story without a prob
lem is tonic.
III could put chauffeur novel II
the hands OF some or our women wht
still think there Is something to weeI
over In everyday life believe | couls
shut of the flow OF pals Of tears. AL
Of our young women read nowadays
Take the girl Just out OF the office
She jumps into the novel yacht Of
the novel automobile or climbs ontt
the novel load OF hay and away sh,
goes. II she Is In the novel zach
she goes dancing over the waves o
the Sound and feels the cool spray II
her face. When night comes tn,
yacht puts in at Stamford or New
Haven and she gees to sleep and i
lulled to pleasant dreams by the swisl
of the wa.er. She slips on her cog
! giles and goes spinning over the roa,