The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-09
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

A letter has just come to hand
which is so much more interesting
than anything I could hope to write,
that I have presented my correspond
enu with my space today:
I am emboldened,' states the
writer after the usual Introduction
and little soft soap, ito come to you
today with what 1 know is an unusual
subject.
The fact is am bachelor. I am
forty-flve, six feet tall. weight 175
pounds, am a blond, in perfect health,
fine teeth, my only claim to good
looks. I am very well educated, not
extra ordinarily SO, but very well read
and well informed on a good many
subjects. L have profession in which
have for the most part, made a fair
living but having had no family, have
missed the chief incentive to make any
real exertion.
Now, strange to say, do not like
being man nor do like mans work.
In my tastes I believe am more of a
woman. am good cook, like the
domestic life, really love to cook. never
find it a trouble but a pleasure. Oh,
yes I know what 1 am talking about
for [ hove cooked in the only home 1
ever had with a relative, and I do not
understand how woman can dislike
cooking and prefer work in an office or
store. 1 can make beds and sweep
and often make up my own room, sim
ply because I prefer to do so. I do not
know how 1 might make out at sew
ing, but 1 have sewed on buttons and
patched.
NOW, Miss Cameron, the question is
this: Do you suppose in your large ex-
perience with human nature and the
world in general, that it would be pos
Sible for me to find a woman willing to
marry me? I mean a nice woman, an
attractive one and also one who sim
ply detestS housework. one who calls
herself working woman and de-
lights in that appellation and who
would continue that work and bring in
the wherewithal for the maintenance
of the household, while I remained at
home and did the housekeeping and
all that would be necessary for a coy,
well kept home.
You simply can't imagine how 1
long for a home, a real home, cozy and
dom estic. I am tired of bachelors
life. I have led rather a clean and
steady life as men go, nothing out of
the common, neither very good, nor
very bad. 1 could have married sew
eral times. real nice girls-but, well I
admit 1 was coward-afraid not to
succeed in being all in a financial way
that the women of today seem to con-
slider essential Now, if a woman
makes the money she knows where it
comes from and will perhaps not exact
so much, and for my part I will en-
gage to keep my promise to always
have a bright and cozy home with the
meals ready when she returns You
see I have already done that for my
relative so I know what I am prOmis-
ing to do. I do not think this idea a
really unusual one with lots of men I
have heard men express themselves in
nearly this way-but they do not like
their feeling to be known, thinking it
unmanly. I do not think it is more un-
manly than for woman to de9est do
mestic duties and prefer outside work.
If the Maker of all. the Supreme Be
ing has put the soul of woman in
mans body and vice versa, who is to
blame? Certainly not the man or
woman in the case
Il certainly could love some nice
woman very much. and be. oh so good
to her. if she could be satisfied with my
humble self. and how I would serve
her with every fibre of my beingl''
Sometimes I fancy this is a make
believe letter, written just to "bait'
me, and thcn again I believe it is gen
uine- Anyway, I think it is a very in
teresting point of view.
Don't you?