The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-27
eY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

There's nothing pays as well as i'm
pudence," said Sal.
why, hello, SAL" cried the cynic.
Where have you been all this long
and weary while
"Oh, bally-whackng round" replied
Sal. II attended a convention" she
added.
"A woman's convention?'
WELT was a--convention," said
Sal. II can't see any difference be-
tween the mems and the women's for
my part"
"Oh, look at the way women go on
wrangling and obstructing and object
ing and calling each other names, and
~"
POOH" said Sal. That's old. Don't
ever say word after the way you
went on the other day over at Indiana
polls.
Talk about children!
You just simply beloved and bawl-
ed and bleated when you couldn't have
your own way.
ton In all history that ever made the
spectacle of itself your old mems con-
yention did"
"Why thought you were for Roose-
yeit," deployed the cynic.
Il am" said Sal. But that's not the
point. You were rejecting On women S
conventions and resent it. I'm merely
showing you that we're no worse than
the men. And good deal better"
There you CO." growled the cynic.
"Hoisting the slogan-'the tyrant
man"
IF didn't like you as well as do, "
said Sal, I'D certainly throw you out
after that. Why do men talk that silly
way just because women want civic
rights"
"Why can't they be content to re-
main as they are?" asked the cynic.
MANS adored one-sustaining the
decorative role-the admiration and
respect of humanity"
"You make me perfectly sick with
such orwell" cried Sal. ,....
Women carries nine-tenths of the
burden of the world. She's not mans
adored ons. Or IL she is it don't last a
month after the honeymoon.
1.-The way to remain mans adored
one" sagely observed SAL SIS not to
marry him"
"Oh, SAL" reproached the cynie,
why will you-why will you!"
Men are all polygamous," she add
ed
did you hear that at the conven-
uon?"
Its what every woman knows "
grinned Sal.
What every woman thinks she
knows" observed the cynic.
Here we are again on the man and
woman discussion wish you
wouldn't always yeer round that way"
said Sal, because l started out to say
something brilliant and you've made
nae forget It,"
We'll you needn't" said Sal. you
take too much interest in"
Don't say IT."
the sex problem
"Oh, thought you meant"
az don't care what you thought I
meant" rudely interrupted Sal. What
you thought / meant only confirms my
previous statement But it's the truth
that nothing pays so well as impu-
dence."
i've noticed myself" said the cynic,
that its the nervy ones that get the
prizes"
Look at Bessie Atwell,' cried Sal.
she hasn't any more brains than a
rabbit and yet she's principal In my
building and runs the whole school
system"
How'd she get in?" inquired the
cynic. ......
lon her magnificent impudence,"
cried Sal And the way she jollies the
men"
"Oh, come. Sal, Bessies not so bad
-"
"She tells you you're a star, don't
she?" smiled Sal sweetly. Pushes the
chair up by the fire, hands you dish
of apples, asks after your rheumatism,
runs to the cupboard and extracts a
recipe for rheumatic cures she had cut
out Of paper, thinking OF you when
she read 1t, of course. comes up back
of your chair, strokes your cheek,
says, bad boy, you haven't shaved to-
day and laughs long and loud at your
old moth-eatsn jokes?"
Were you looking through the win
dow" asked the cynic suspiciously.
mo woman has to look through a
window to know what Bessie's doing
to a man." said Sal.
THAT don't account for her being
principal of your building, however,"
murmured the cynic.
Eyes, it does" said Sal. Because
that's the way she does to the superin-
tendent and the president of the
school board"
"oh, you mistake Bessie-Bessie
wouldn't"
Yes. Bessie would. That's the way
Bessie gets on in the world. Bessie
knows her brains are nil and that she
must get In by the postern-gate
Therefore she works the men,"
II can't be worked" acclaimed the
cynic.
"Oh, Of course not. All men think the
same thing In the meantime the wom-
en- are standing in the wings pulling
the strings.
"Sal. you're uncanny." said the Gym
lie. I'm afraid of YOU