El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-16
The Wise Woman Who
Is In Love With Husband
By wINIFRED BLACK.

~ EAR Winifred Blak:
What do you think of a woman
- 40 years old who is so dead in
love with her husband that she can't
wait for the mail to be distributed, but
stands in front of the postoffice win
dow like some love-sick girl Of sweet
Is?
There's a woman like that here at
this summer resort She's the joke OF
the whole place and I feel sorry Tor
her for she is a nice woman in every
other way, and a sensible one, too. DO
you think 1 ought to tell her not to
let everybody see what goose she Is
about her huSband2-We Meaning
What do I think Of a woman 40 years
old who is dead in love with her hus-
band? I think she's a woman Of sense
and a woman of brains and woman
who knows how to get the good out Of
life, and if were you I'd stop feeling
sorry for her and feel sorry for myself
and for every other woman who IS
foolish enough to let the girls OF 10
and the fascinatOrs Of 80 or so have
all the fun of things.
Do you know the sort Of world that
woman you laugh at lives in, you poor,
blind, stupid, well meaning soul, you
She lives in a world of sweet sur
prises, glorious discoveries, splendid
faiths, and joys that are as far beyond
anything the nice little girl (who thinks
she's dead in love with Claud because
Claud wears such perfectly lovely ten
mis- clothes) knows that there's no
comparison between them al all.
Ten o'clock in the mOrningl What
does that hour mean to you-there at
the resort where you are spending the
summer, tatting or crochetlng? And
you gossip there on the front piazza,
Lovely, uplifting, inspiring. thrill
ingly exciting, that sort of thing, ism
it? The woman you laugh at doesn't
hear one word of it. she's waiting for
the mail.
fooI-that woman? She's the only
sensible one among you all.
There's that friend of yours, the
wise WOman'-oh, how wise she IS 50
wise that her tired eyes look all the
time as if she were in the most terrible
torment, and she can't smile a natural
smile to save her live.
That husband Of the wise woman
she's always making fun of him, Ism
she? and taking the greatest pains to
show every one that she doesn't care
the snap of her finger about him.
He'd like to be in love with his wife,
and he'd like to believe that she is IN
love with him. if he is 40 years old
and not particularly handsome.
He'd like to remember the Wise
Woman as she was when he first met
her, when they were both young and
happy. He'd like to put little halo
little head, but the wise woman can
never be fooled by any such CANNON
as that, not she
Oh, she knows him, she knows all
men, they are all frauds, every one Of
them, all gay deceivers.
She lets her own particular gay de-
ceiyer see quite plainly that she doesn't
care a rap for him, but does care for
his check book, and he is gradually
growing to be the very thing she ex-
poets him to be-just because she does
expect it.
She's the one who leads the laugh at
the woman who is in love with her
husband isn't she2-pOor, silly, dull
witted thing. she's missed all that is
best in life and is Dragging about it
"Hurrahi" cried the blind man. Il m
stone blind, don't have to be bothered
seeing sunsets and mOonrises. A rose
looks just the same to me as black
eyed susan. never care whether it's
dawn or dusk, it's all the same to me.
I'm wise, really wise; l am blind stone
blind, and I'm proud of it."
That's what the wise women" are
Uke-poor. blind things-and they dare