South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-12
Some Queer Little
w ays of w omen
Mere Man Seeks Explana-
ton of Certain Phenomena
which Characterize Won
ans Letters.

I'D like to know" said the Man.
joining the group around the tea-table.
why it is a woman never dates her
letters?"
Women hate anything that has to
do with figures" replied one.
They never know the date" sug-
gested another.
They dislike to think there is such
a thing as time" volunteered a third.
Sometimes, though il is quite rare.
my wife Will head her letters Monday.
or Tuesday, or something like that"
went on the Man. But as she usually
forgets TO mail them for several DAYS
or else gives them TO somebody else
who fOrgets to mail them. | never
know just which Monday or Tuesday
she means. But most of the time she
appears to be Serenely unconscious
that there Is such a thing in existence
as a calendar or a date, and then she
says, I'll be back in a couple of days.
Meet me at the station at TO- You
never can make out a pOstmark or a
letter The only thing about it that is
clear is the year. which Of course is
highly important. And so l chase TO
the station several mornings TO try to
find out which morning she really will
be there, and then probably she
doesn't come anyway"
Il never have the faintest idea what
OdAG Il H. SdlQ a WulllGln UleeklN.
4, either chOruSed the other.
The only date / know" said one
meditauvely, lis the first of the month,
when the bills begin TO come in. You
always know the first of the month
around our house"
Then again" said the Man, why
can't q woman either number her
pages when writing a letter, or else
write straight ahead? Luckily you
can tell the first page. But you
wouldn't be able to pick that out if
she didn't have to begin with some
form of salutatiOn But after that
you're gone. You turn the letter over
and backward and forward, and up
side down, and slantwise; but where
to continue after the first page is as
predetermined as are the canals on
Mars. If there is any connection in
the thOught-which usually there
isn't-yOu can make a stab at it, and
maybe get only two pages off. But
usually you must read it straight
ahead and then piece it together af-
terward in your mind.
"Once upon a time you read the first
page. then the third. then the second
and lastly the fourth. Just as l about
got on to that order of procedure the
wind changed; and. after beating
about for quite awhile. | discovered
the course ought to be the first page,
then the inside page across. I don't
know what's brewing now. But l feel
a change is coming. Whenever I see
a man hunting around a letter. turn
ing it over, and reading first here. and
then there, / know what he is up
against. Now. why do women do it?"
The tea-table was silent.
at seems so terribly prim," at last
ventured one. "to write on the first
page and then on the second, and so
on. / think women hate to be really
methOdical. In some things they have
to be; so when they get a chance, even
in a little thing, to be absolutely free,
they delight in being as whimsical as
possible
q think il is more convenient" said
another, ito write on the first page
and then on the last and then across
inside. than to be turning pages all
the time"
of they would only stick to that
plan," said the Man, lit wouldn't mat
ter"
but it is so monotonous TO do
thing always one way" suggested
third. Women like a change"
"You bet they do" said a man join
ing the group, change of air, change
of scenery, change of husbands"
"And change in their purse" inter
jected the woman who had spoken
about the bills and the first of the
month.
"I suppose, then" said the Man with
a sigh, there's no hope for an un-
varying method of writing a letter"
None, whatever" chOrused the
group about the ea-table.-Grand
Rapids Herald.