The Alaska citizen., 1911-10-09

a woman should do 10 keep her hus- bands affection. how she should bring up her children. how order her house. how conduct her club. how she should gown herself and q hundred more advices are sent forth over the land. to every one of a similar character aimed at man
 That the complaint has some viewing hastily his slender store of recolleCtions of advice to hus- bands. fathers or business men. J There really does not seem to pre- vail much concern for the good of the masculine member of the human | family. But an open-minded man may indeed set forth an opposite arraignment of current literature i for not showing enough interest in | him. His clothes have to be jus1 as curiously sought as a womans- why may he not have other guid- | i dasher and tailor? He often finds | himself failure in keeping a pre- dominating share of his wife's at i tentions-why may he not be en- l frightened as to the fault in his be- l havior that has allowed her even i ing thoughts to stray toward club papers and more frivolous employ when he would spend a quiet hour of Companionship at home? Why | to which office management so often i drifts be straightened out for him l by an Illuminating word from one who has never had an office to run? In short. why this overwhelming | interest in the feminine experience?
 Pondering these things one real izes that the press usually turns out the things that will be read If | the advices to woman continue to hold that stage it must be that she | is more alert to learn, more dCcile under rebuke. more eager for self i improvement than man Other ob- servations seem to confirm this con 1 clnsion. When men folk show | themselves really glad to get ad- vice as 10 the conduct Of life be sure it is forthcoming. And perhaps womankind's present ferment and stir toward better things may have 1 the double effect of rousing man. also. to a need to be and do better.
 The most unkind and cruel woman il has been my misfortune to encoun- i ter told me she was absolutely in different to the opinion of her fel i low creatures. She had certain ideals | she WOrshipS - she loved art for arts sake, and humanity was no more to her than the dirt of the streets She cared neither for praise nor blame; she cared only for her ideals which were far above the heads of the common herd. suppose this was very fine talk. but 1t did not appeal to me somehow. would have respected this ideal-wor- shipping woman more had she been 1 possessed of enough personal vanity even if she had no heart-to wish to please her fellow beings, and to avoid wounding them needlessly. Of course. vanity running riot in a char acter ruins all it's other qualities, just as toO much yeast spells the bread. l am not advocating a ridi- i Slons; the vanity of which I speak Is not selfishness at all. Indeed, it would curb selfishness, since the lat CT quality is one which brings cen sure instead of praise But am quite confident that certain modi. cum of the vanity which springs from love of approbation is worthy of cul- tivating in woman's nature. and properly weeded about and watched | fnl of others. and ambitious to make the most of herself and her brief life on this sphere, and that it's en- tire absence is an absolute hindrance to development and success.
 When Women Are Comfortable.
 When our gowns fit we'll
 When We are making some one happy.
 When our shoes do not hurt our pet toes.
 When our hats do not wobble when the wind blows.
 When we have no bad debts to collect and owe no one.
 When we have an easy chair. a good book, warm fire and outside it rains
 When we have finished some dis agreeable duty and do not have to repeat it-until the next time.
 When everyone around us is in good health and is happy and there are no cross words for each other.
 Two Sides of Matrimony.
 Said an unmarried friend, as we watched the careful attention with which a young lover wrapped a light