Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16
By WINIFRED BLACK.

week. Why? Wen. she's apt to
be more interesting for one thing;
and then, sisters. men are really
not all such blIthering idiots as
some would have us believe
really they are not. / know men
who love their wives because their
wives are good women, and true
friends and jolly comrades and
good fellows and gentle sweet
hearts-honestly I do-and I've
been acquainted with several
men who stayed in love with their
wives after they had seen said
wives with their hair twisted
around a comb and mouth full
of hair pins-such was the in
credible folly Of the creatures.
Tut tut, Miss CoreIH! What an
odd lot of men you must know,
really!
Are they all such absolute
ounces as you try to make US
think?
I don't believe i'll can't be-
lieve it. How on earth have they
ever accomplished all they have
in the world if they are such alb
solutelv blind unreasoning
creatures as you say they are?
Look pretty every minute or
you'll lose him" Good gracious!
Whatever would become Of the
world if all the married women
i'm it agreed with you? What
would happen to the babies
Who'd run downstairs in a heavy
dressing gown and make hus-
band a mustard plaster when
something he'd eaten had gone
wrong with him? And then there's
husbsnd-what would he think Of
us if we should turn around and
say the same sort of thing to him.
a woman did say it in Chicago
the other day-a very clever and
well-kuown woman she was, too.
She declared that she left her
perfectly good young husband be
cause she hated the way he looked
with his collar off, shaving.
And the world re-echoed with
gusty laughter OF the gods!
wonder why?
I Wonder.
Just as I was finishing Miss
CorelI's article the prettiest girl
was saying:
q wonder If it never strikes
these people who are so busy tell
ing US how to keep a husband
that nine out Of ten Of the d.
vorce suits are brought by women
and not by men at all. To judge
by statistics, It is the men who
need the advice on how to keep
a wife"
And l kept wondering what
she'd say when she fell IN love
really and truly in love-and
whether she wouldn't pity every
one who wasn't in the same state,
and whether she wouldn't be right
10 pity them.
And the cleverest girl-why
she's the very one who'll be crazy
about some one some day, and
not such very clever some one.
either and perhaps not such a
very good some one. Poor, earnest,
honest deep-hearted, cIeverest
girl-and she'll never really live
till she is. Still all the way hack
to the cottage I kept humming.
And. do you know, the words that
! hummed were those odious ones
the cleverest girl had chanred so
def1antly-"What are you going 10
do to make me love your"
l wonder if they do mean some
thing, just now. those words9
And I wonder If what they mean
Is something sane and wholesome
and well balanced and just as
reasonable and good for the fu-
ture Of the whole race Of human
fly in some great, noble, far
reaching way, or If. they are Just
a sudden outbreak Of silly vanity
an d overweening self-esteem.
brought about by the sudden
change in the mysterious tide thu
has for so many centuries con-
troned the destiny of the mothers
of menu
Rise up, Mr.. Plain, Every Day.
Ordinary Man, with the plain.
every day, ordinary wife. and tell
US what you think about it
honestly and truly.