Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-09-25

steal and moral well-being, her pros
perity, her very bread and butter, de-
pend, in the great majority of cases,
upon her getting, the right sort of hus
band, but custom does. not allow her to
raise a finger to secure to herself this
desirable adjunct.
On the contrary, If she is a perfect lady
she is supposed to sit around and suck
her thumbs, and pray heaven to be kind
TO her, instead of hustling out after the
best thing in sight.
Nobody denies that marriage means
more to woman than it does TO a man,
and that It is more important for her to
be pleased in her husband than It is for
him 10 be pleased with wife, because
the man who acquires a matrimonial
lemon can get away, from it, while the
woman can't. If he makes an unfortunate
marriage he has hls business or profess
sion, and a thousand outside interests to
distract his attention, while her horizon
is bounded by her wedding ring and she
has nothing to turn her thoughts away
from her misery. '"F o-'
There is no valid argument that can
be advanced against giving woman the
same right to select her life mate that a
sentimental and conventional, and, cur
fously enough, these are put forward by
men who are not wise enough to realize
what delightful and thrilling emotional
experience they are missing in not being
wooed by some charming lady.
In recent letter I have received from
a gentleman violently set against woman
taking the initiative in love-making. he
raises the sympathetic point of the crush
ing rebuff that it would be to a woman
II she proposed to some eligible gentleman
and was refused. =
She would not only risk this, but total
loss as we'll, should she plump the ques-
ton at the wrong time, and by giving pre-
mature notice OF her intentions scare
away some perfectly good, but too wary
provider," opines my correspondent.
Not at all. Far from it. OF course,
there are risks in every venture, espec-
tally so in courtship, and there is no other
gamble that is 20 much a matter of
change IS the game Of hearts. The woman
who pops the question to a man viii be
in the same danger of having him say
p that he'll be a~brother to her that a man
is of having a woman volunteer to be his
sister instead of his wife
But the feminine heart is quite as much
~ut a rubber ball. and as sure to rebound.
as tile masculine heart, and there win be
no alarming lists of casualties. as the
lesutof unrequited love.
Nor win any woman die Of chag{n be-
cause the man she asked, to marry her
said mo- Indeed. it will add enormously
TO the sum of feminine happiness TOR a
woman who is in love with a man to be
able to put the question squarely up 10
him. and haven't definitely decided one
way or theother, instead Of hanging. on.
Year afeer year. on the anxious bench
trying by indirect methods 10 attract his
attention, and hoping against hope that
in some way she will be able to ensnare
him up to the altar.
\ great many women object 10 givins
women the right to propose, because they
seem to think that II women could DOE
the question men would be Obliged to
marry whether they wanted to or not
heoahse no gentleman could summon ur
enough courage to say no to a lady. wha,
nonsense Every day OF the week women