The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-01-25
ONLY PROPER REVENGE
ResUkINc THE PRESUMPTION or
THE MARRIED WOMAN.
Too Many Seek to Probe Into the
Heart Secrets Of Their less For
Is tunsts Sisters, and Deserve
severe Treatment.


A good many differences might BE-
made about her own experiences in
preserving the tender passion with .
live husband. To write so feelingly
Of the preservative qualities OF dead
lover naturally suggests that living
spouse gave her cause 10 do some cob
bling at the rundown heels OF senti-
ment But-that did not excuse her
impertinenee. Nothing gave her the
right in the sight Of God, man or
other women; nothing excused her.
A cowboy with record for. men
ne had killed finally met his match.
His admiring friends were "stumped''
TO find an epitaph to put upon the
monument they builded him.. At last
they had craven there in chaste and
fcrceful simplicity. He done his
durnedest." I, too. faltering before
the utility of language as means Of
expressing just what the married
woman does who asks the impertinent
question. say. She does" It isn't
necessary to repeat the quotation.
Why. the married woman who does
It 10 . social ghoul cavorting heed
lessly, wantonly. cruelty. hideously
on the grave OF dead hopes. gougine
her question into the body Of lost
love! Before she married she wis
like other women thoroughfarers
Afterwsrd, seated In the matrimonial
automobile, she dashes headlong
among the ones who still walk snd
knocks the very breath out OF them
Apparently, she thinks the marriage
machine 10 meant to send single
pedestrians scurrying and dodaing
Anyway, that's the use she makes
Of H.
II married women forget how Il
feels to be unmarried and asked
why, here is telling them! II feel:
painful and lonely and sad. II
takes sweetness and courage and. ar
enormous amount OF the good, gar
den variety OF sease to bear up gra &c
fully. And when idle or thous ht
less curiosity goes digging and snag
Cling and punching About in the sors
and sacred places Of the heart, the
suffering and the rage 1t creates isftoc
awful to mention.
What really ought to happen Il
these inouiring matrons is bis
When one asks maid the question
the maid should scare her into gal
Looping Mysteries by looking meaning
~ at her one and only husband and
observing. con expressione- "Thefnlal
love Is married."
The matron would THINK. Inde ed
she would be thinking even wi II,
she hnrried'y pleaded an engagement
and piloted her husband out OF thu
maids dangerous neishborhood. Eos
slbIy that is all that is needed jus
to set the married interrogators th Ink
ing-to make them realize the enckm
ity of their offense. Surely the utte
I violation OF good taste, the inexcus
able intrusion into personal affairs
the suffering they csrelessly create
must make them pause.
II wife asks the REASON and
maid insinuates that SHE is 1T, sh'
levels the popgun OF her impertimen
inquiry full In the face OF anothe
spinster. And every matron made Il
think-and feel little wholesome
fear. perhaps-will mean one les
maid, at least, to be grilled on thu
hot plate OF the married woman
curiosity.
II every pretty and attractive un
| married woman would follow out thi
suggestion reformation would b
effected that would enable us to pre-
serve the sacredness of our memories
| or our pride or--our regulations! IT.
| worth trying!--New York Press.