Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-17
THE TRAVELLING MANS WIFE.
Half the Time She's Widow With
out a Widows Privileges.

From the American tagszin"
Whenever I hear a travelling man howl
ing about his lonesome evenings and
what a dogs life it is and no way for a
man to live. always wonder what kind o.
summer picnic he thinks it is for his wife.
Shes really widow seven months in the
year, without any OF widows privileges.
Did you ever stop TO think what She =
doing evenings? No. you didn't We'll.
I'll tell you. She's sitting home night
after night probably embroidering mono
grams on your shirt sleeves by way II
diversion
And Saturday night. which is the night
when every married woman has the i'll
alienable right to be taken out 10y her
husband she can listen 10 the woman ia
the fiat upstairs getting ready to 20 TO
the theater.
The fact that there's 4 ceiling bctw
EN- doesn't prevent her FROM knowing
just where they're going and why Zee has
worked himself into rage over his white
lawn tie, and whether they're taking a
taxi or the car. and who they're going 10
meet afterward at supper.
After they've gone she can go to bed or
she can sit up, pretending To read. bat
really wondering if that squeaky sound
coming from the direction of The Kitchen
is a loose screw in the storm door or some
one trying to break into the fat. And
she'd rather sit there scared green than
go back through that long han to ind
out
And when TiIlie comes home with her
young man at IL a clock. though she
promised not Ia stay ont later than ~
she rushes back to the kitchen aud falls
on her neck she's SO happy TO see her.
Oh, it's gay life. You talk about ~,
heroism of the early Pilgrim mothers To
like TO know what they had on the aver
age travelling mans wife.
OF course. she can ouench her thirst
for the theater by going to the matiue.
DO you think any woman goes TO matt
nees 10y preference? MatneeS, Say.
would YOU ever hesitate To choose TO-
tween an all day train and sleeper IT.
the same idea. What u woman calls go
ing 10 the theater is something very dif-
ferent
1t means taking a nap I'm the afternoon.
SO her eyes will be bright at night. and
and lay her husbands clean things out ON
the bed. She loves il. She even enjoys
getting his bath towels ready. and putting
his shaving things where he can lay his
hands on 'enl, and telling the girl to have
Inner ready promptly a. $50.
1t means getting oGt her good dress
hat hangs in the closet with "A cretonue
Dag covering il. and her black satin coat.
and her hat with the paradise aigretteS
that she bought with what she saved our
Of the housekeeping money. II means
her best silk stockings. and her diamond
'unbursI that he's going 10 have mad"
over into a La Valliere just IA soon as
business is better.
She loves it all. ana her cheeks 81
)inker and pinker. SO that she really
doesn't need the little dash OF rouge yhat
she puts on because everybody does
t. don't you know? She gets ready,
LII but her dress. and then she puts on
/ kimono and slips out TO the Kitchen
o make the gravy for the chicken be
,ause the girl never can get il as smooth
is he likes it,
But the theater? Oh. no. He wants
lis comfort when he gets home. He says
he wants little rest and peace. and he's
larned il he's going TO run around eve
,ines Not much, he isn't, But he
DOESN'T object to her making special ef-
ort to cook all those little things that
les been longing for on the road Oh.
here'I be seat in heaven for every
raveling mans wife-though at that I'll
,et most of 'em will find themselves
tuck behind a post.