The Cairo bulletin., 1911-11-04

the domestic establishment, made it's
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 We're 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 little shopping it was GUS
tomary for the husband to go along
and of course carry the wallet. She
would timidly buy Is cents worth OF
needles and thread, and he, with d
flourish, would slowly unwind the
strap from the pocketbook and count
out the change, take the package and
hand Ii to her, Sand she in turn would
sigh her thanks for this evidence OF
generosity and love.
ut is true picture that have I'M
dertaken to draw-true every word of
it. No wonder that women went
around with granulated eyelids and
fiuttered sigh with every tenth
breath.
Old Order of Things Changed
"Of course, 1t was inevitable that
women would get away from this con-
dition of o(tentimes self-imposed de-
preston. They Just had to wake up.
The old order of things had to pass.
The great sisterhood of American
women has stepped out of the
shadows into the sunlight and 1t is
getting something real and good out
Of life now.
ut would be inaccurate to say that
women have given up crying alto
gether. but they have progressed to q
point where they no longer have
nerves forever on edge and tears for
ever on tap.
Now will tell you how think 1t
came about Mental stimulus has
done it, Just so soon as woman
ceases to imagine that she Is the most
utterly forlorn and unhappy person
In the world she Is bound to get a
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-stenogra
ers, typewriters, clerks, Office assist
ants and all the others--do you i'm
agine will 60 to business this morn
ing wondering whether they will find
time for a good cry during the day?
Not one, unless she Is Ill. How many
Of the shopgirs on the east side and
In Brooklyn do you suppose will go
smiling to their 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 a slam.
There" she said, ARE seven anti
dotes for tears. IL you want others,
there are the newspapers. I'm a
great believer In novels. read lot
Of them. They give me Just the kind
OF mental thrill that Is good for me.
A good, clean story without prob
lem Is tonic.
III could put chauffeur novel In
the hands of some of our women who
still think there Is something to weep
over in everyday life believe could
shut off the flow of pals of tears. All
of our young women read nowadays.
Take the girl Just out of the Office.
She jumps into the novel yacht or
the novel automobile or climbs onto
the novel load OF hay and away she
goes. III she Is In the novel yacht
she goes dancing over the waves OF
the Sound and feels the cool spray In
her face When night comes the
yacht puts In at Stamford or New
Haven and she goes to sleep and is
lulled to pleasant dreGsns by the swish
OF the wafer. She slips on her cog.
giles and gops sDinninp ovar fho rnad