South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-23

one Of tine reasons that the two
sexes understand and sympathiZe with
each other $50 little IS because women
are always 80 much older than men
no matter what relative ages they
really are
Women are born grown up. They
are mature even in their cradles but
the majority of men are still boys at
heart even when they are gray and
equity Not without reason did Barrie
make Peter Pan of the masculine per
suasi0n 80 female creature is ever
q Peter Pan at heart however much
she may affect the role in her clothes.
She may rig herself up i'm infanule
white muslin and blue ribbons but un-
derneath her pose OF youth ner soul
has wrinkles and crows feet on it.
Women recognize the fact that
men keep their physical youth much
longer than they do and that man of
90 still looks bOyish while q woman OF
that age is frankly middle-aged and
Heaven alone knows the WORK and
worry and dieting and massa ging and
general martyrdom wives go through
in order TO keep in their husbands
class This is why custom has decreed
that the husband shall be older than
the wife. Experience has shown that
even when he has the lead of her by
% or 20 years she will catch up
with MIN DetDr~ the tin wedding ami
versary rolls around.
But II men keep Young i'm body
longer than women do still more do
they keep young IN spirit. They are
boys 90 the end OF the chapter and
this what their wives never cOmpre-
mend.
When "a woman grows up she is all
grown mp. She is sophisticated and
of the world worldly. The things She
enjoys. the books she reads the plays
she sees are strictly for grown ups.
not for children
ON the other hand no matter how
clever ard intellectual or how big and
powerful the man gets To- be ne still
keeps somewhere in his soul the spirit
of a boy His idea of having q per
feCtly gorgeous time is to get away
form people and go fishing with q
stick for a fishing rod and a tin can
OF worms for bait as ne did when nc
was 10 years old il is men who pre-
fer musical comedy TO the problems
OF Ibsen and Sudermann and it is men
who like TO read detective stories and
10 cent thrillers
Tt IS this boy spirit that makes men
collectors and that raises Wifely wrath
because husbands-untfl they are
taught better by their spOuses-clut-
ter up the house and spend perfectly
good money on postage stamps or
butterflies or something else that the
mature ladies TO whom they are mar
ried consider childish and foolish.
Most of the -arriages that go to
smash founder on the rock of age.
The wife lacks the fine vision to see
that in the shadow OF her big strong
competent husband there lurgs the
little shy boy TO be played with and
coddled and petted and mothered
And ii is this little boy who finding
no welcome nor recognition at home
SO often runs away to some other
woman in his desperate hunt for a
play fellow. You can see ample proof
of this in the letters that are pathetic
~ well as ludricOus that form the
main exhibit I'm almost every divorce
suit and in which the writer's. often
men who have amassed millions by
their own shrewdness or men who
have achieved fame i'm some profes-
siOn sign themselves Your Little
Boy Blue" or Your Little Billy Boy