Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-23

W. hANNh hht may
affect the role in
her clothes. She may MX,O
rig herself up In VN W
infantile white mus
lin and blue ribbons, and wear curis,
and affect the baby stare. but under
meath her pose OF youth. her soul has
wrinkles and crows feet on t.
Women recognize the fact that men
keep their physical youth much longer
than they do. and that a man OF 20 stu
looks boyish. while woman of that
age is frankly middle-aged. and heaven
alone knows the work and worry. and
dieting. and massaging, and general
rnartyrdom that wives go through In
order TO keep in their husbands age
class. This IL 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 ten or
twenty years she win eaton up with him
before the tin wedding anniversary rolls
around.
But II men keep young IN body longer
than women do, still more do they keep
young In spirit. They are boys TO the
end OF the chapter. and this is what
their wives never comprehend.
When woman II grown up she Is
all grown up She is sophisticated. and
OF the world, worldly. The things she
enjoys. the books she reads, the plays
she secs are strictly for grown-ups, not
for children.
on the other hand. no matter how
clever and intellectual or how big and
powerful the man gets to be, he stjll
keeps somewhere In his soul the apirit
OF boy. His idea OF having a per-
tectiy gorgeous time is 10 get away from
people and go fishing with a stick for a
Fishing rod, and a tin can OF worTne for
bait as he did when he was 10 years old.
Il Is men who prefer musical comedy
and farces TO the problems OF Ibsen and
sudermann. and II IL men who like 10
read detective stories and io-cent thrill
ers.
II Is this boy spirit that makes men
collectors, and that raises wifely wrath
because husbands-until they are taught
better by their spouses-clutter up the
house and spend perfectly good money on
butterflies. or postage stamps. or old
prints. or something else that the mature
ladies' to whom they are married con-
slider childish and foolish.
Most OF the marriages that 20 20 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 turks the little shy boy 10
De played WITH and coddled. and petted.
and rnothered.
And IT Is this little boy who. finding
40 welcome nor recognition at home, 90
oiten runs away to some other woman in
pis desperate hunt for play fellow. You
can see ample proof Of this In the letters
mat are pathetic. as we'll as iudicrous,
shat FORM the main EXHIBIT I'm almost
every divorce suit. and in which the writ
ers' oiten men who have achieved MIL
mons by their own shrewdness. or men
VINO nave achieved fame I'm some pro-
lession' sign themselves Your Little Boy
siue' or Your Billy Boy" or some
other imoecility that belongs by right
TO the age OF calf love instead OF tbe
love Of maturity.
Also Il IL 10 be noted that the method
OF fascination that appears 10 be used
By these sirens who break on homes
consists In treating their elderly admir-
ers as IL they were indeed Billy Bows in
stead OF respected williams with b,gb
position IN the community.
There Is food for thought in these rsvs.
iations OF the divorce court for they
ne doesn't want to be petted and joliiec
and made much OF. oven when he bs,
only one scant hair to brush across hi,
bald SPOT he desires Just as ardently I,
have some woman curl Il around he
finger as he did when he had anbrosia
locks that were a temptation 70 IN.
hands Of every feminine beholder.
Likewise he desires 20 talk nonsans
and TO listen 20 nonsense. the gay non
sense OF youth. and this Is another sid
Of mans eternal boyisbnesa that his wifi,
can never grasp. she, cannot understan,
how man who has achieved big thing
and who is interested In blr things cal
turn in minute from big things 10 nttl
things. from being % years old TO bein
or l6
The women who make successes q
matrimony are the ones who have On
inspired sight 10 see the boy in the mar
ana whose love has a large element O
the maternal IN Il. They recognize this
many OF the faults OF husbands that !
many wives find unforgivable are simpl
the irresponsibility Of eternal boyhoot
and mean far less than they seem /
mean.
These are the women who sense a grea
truth-that the boy In a man may b
carried away By a pretty face. or IN
temptation OF. moment or the waywarC
ness Of fleeting impulse. and yet leay
The heart and soul Of the man himse
absolutely true and devoted 70 his wifi,
and that he comes back to ffer ali N
more devoted for having wandered ava
a BIT He comes back 20 her inevitabl
as a boy comes back home.
And II Is the wise woman who treat
the boy Ia her husband a. she treats he
own s-year-0id-who KISSES him whe
he's good. and scolds him when he's bas
ard shows him Off before company. bu
makes him feel that the safe harbor q
ihe world u IN the hollow OF her shou
Der where his head can rest