Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-09

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somebody hould
wear petticoats. He even thinks woman
likes 1t, and takes credit to himself for
letting her live at all.
Look where you will. and you see mans
selfishness to woman illustrated at every
turn.
Even in love man is never satisfied
unless he gets back ten times as much
as he gives. His affection for a woman
may be of the most milk-and-water char
acter. but she must hand him out
double distilled essence of deathless de-
votion, a hundred and fifty proof. More
over, she must back it up with a steady
flowing stream of gratitude because he
had the goodness to notice her and ask
her to marry him.
Just watch the next engaged couple
you meet. Isn't the girl doing all the
talking and looking pleased, and making
all the effort to be agreeable? And isn't
the man sitting up with a complacent
and patronizing air that says palmer
than words: II permit this young person
to adore me. and for once in my life
l am aware that have done a perfectly
altruistic and noble thing"
Observe the way a man acts when he
gets into trouble. Doesn't he rush to
some woman with his tale of woe? And
doesn't she have to listen to It day al
day. and night after night, without ever
betraying a symptom of WEAKNESS, or
daring to suggest that he's anything
but a prosecuted martyr? Yea, verify.
But does any woman dare to tell any
man. except her doctor and preacher. who
are paid to listen, about her troubles?
Not one. For experience has taught her
that the minute she hoists the rainy
weather signal every man in sight grabs
his hat and runs for shelter.
II q man has a headache. doesn't he
expect everyb body in the house to be on
the Jump fetching camphor, and ice, and
heaven knows what. and doesn't he make
his wife sit by his side and hold his hand,
and pretend that she believes he's about
to die? But If the wife is sick-dear
me, he wonders what makes women have
so many COMPOUNDED nerves, and he says
he never knows what to do around sick
folks, anyway. And then he goes COM
fortably off to spend the evening at his
club playing poker.
Which of the sexes has to do all of
the adapting of itself to the other? The
feminine. When you listen TO a man and
a woman talking together, isn't the
woman always trying to converse
about something that interests the man?
Don't all the woman you know study
up on the stock reports. the base ball
score and politics, in order to be able
to talk to men intelligently? And did
YOU ever hear OF a single man reading
up on the new style of haIr-dressing, or
the burning topic of the width of skirts.
.
Don't men demand that women must
be perfectly satisfied with nothing live
Tier to do than keeping house. and rails
ing babies, and an uninterrupted contem-
plation Of their husbands charms? But
imagine what would happen II one single
woman demanded that a husband inter
est should be confined within those mar
row boundaries!
Think of the brutal selfishness of good
men who refuse to make their wives an
allowance, and for the pleasure Of show
ing that they are masters, make high
spirited women come TO them for every
penny they spend.
The women give the loving, faithful
services of hearts and heads and hands,
such as no money can hire in the open
market. and yet there are men who arc
never willing to give them anything for
it as their right. 1t is always bestowed
as favor. that women are expected 10
be grateful for. and men neither know.
nor care. that a favor is as bitter on the
feminine pallets as It Is on the masculine.
Consider the selfish point OF view OF
mans adjudgment OF rights and privi-
leges. II a man goes out with the boys
and comes home with the milkman in the
morning in such a state that his wife
has 70 get up and open the door for him,
he thinks himself a poor, henpecked
creature II she says a word.
suppose, however. a wife should do the
same way even once. II would be the
divorce court for hers, for there is
precious little q man will forgive a
woman. but all eternity is not broad
enough to bound what he expects her TO
forgive him.
And what is It but the selfishness OF
man that for so many years kept women
shut out from practically all educational
privileges and gainful occupations. and
that still keeps them shut out OF their
political rightsf
Man had a good thing and he wanted
70 keep It for himself. and this Is at the
bottom of all the hue and cry about
woman getting out OF her sacred sphere.
Man doesn't worry about woman's sphere
until she gets some job that he wants
himself
And the funny part of all OF this is that
men haven't any idea that they are being
selfish 10 women. Ssrhaps because they
have been that way 30 long they don't
know any bette