The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-25

grandmother to read or see the
pay In which no well-brought-up
daughter would take her mother.
We of this generation discuss
matters openly with both men
and women of our own age that
would make us very uncomfort-
able II we had to talk about them
to our blushing female relatives
of former generations.
Our grsndfathers kept their
women innocent, and even today
| occasionally run across a man
who says: MY wife is so inno-
cent. She knows nothing of the
nature of man nor of the evil that
is In the world but that of which
tell her"
He Is very apt to boast of this.
but | notice he is usually the man
who stays longest beside the
cleverest and most sophisticated
woman In the room whenever he
and his drab little wife are in
vited out.
| said something of this kind to
lin Edie the other night and he
answered: That is perfectly
natural. A man likes to talk to
clever woman. lie likes to have
his brain stimulated by her bril-
liancy once In while, but, Lord
love you, my dear. cant you see
that after a man has been all day
with his mind working at 100 per
cent pressure he doesn't want to
spend the rest of his waking
hours discussing either household
finances or PHILOSOPHERS of living.
mo, Margie, whatever a man
may fall in love with girl for,
he wants his wife Just for one
thing-his own special comfort.
like his dressing gown or his old
slippers. Oh, l know men don't
usually admit this, even to them
selves. especially while they are
getting into evening clothes to
take the other woman to dine at
some Bohemian cafe. They like
the cafe, the light, the music, the
noise OF the popping corks and
the general atmosphere which In
siduously whispers that they are
still youn.y, still In the game, but
in the lony run 1t is the dressing
gown and slippers that appeals to
them longest, If not most.
THE reason | don't get mar
ried Is because the dressing gown
and slippers kind of woman is
Ia 10. In n ntfC LUnEU
once I'm a while | think | have
found one, and then all at once
she breaks out into TRADE on
the rights of women, the latest
problem novel or some other sub
ject that tells me that she would
bore me to death IL should
marry her."
"Jim, you are not only an In
corrigible old misogamist, but
you are selfishness personified, |
said to him. 'By good rights, l
should cut your acquaintance, for
the honor of my sex.
"By the way, what are you lin
gering around here for? Surely
you do not think | am one Of
those comfortable wives that
may be likened to old shoes and
warm smoking jackets?"
mot on your life. I'll bet you
have given Dick many an uncom-
Portable half-hour when you have
demanded explanations, but al
most thou persuadest me that,
after all, there might be a woman
who would make me forget my
comfortable ideal"
Don't jolly, JIM" I said,
rather impatiently. 1T always
riles me to have man think he
must flatter me-
1 wonder II / have made Dick
weary at times, and is 1t my duty
to always save his feelings at the
expense of my own? I, too, get
tired of always being the mentor
and the moralist. I'd like to let
myself go and just live for the
present-'take the good the gods
provide" but IL | did!
If any wife did that always
what would become of the home,
the family and most of the hus-
bands and fathers?
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