South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-22
Tea Table Talks
BY May De Witt Talmage
| MASCULINE AND FEMININE
POINT OF VIEW.

Who can say that men and wom-
en- look at life from the same point
or view.
The snow and sleet were patter-
ing on the small panes of glass that
half covered the roof and side walls
of the class room on the top Of the
University building. The grey light
of the stormy afternoon made the
adjoining high buildings and the
tall Metropolitan tower with their
lights seem mystical and fantasticaL
Seated at a desk piled with books
and newspapers and shaded by a
green lamp sat the professor. His
young. smooth face looked free from
care. He was trying TO teach us how
to write He was the architect of
| our thoughts. Form. plot, cOnstruc-
tor. was what interested him.
/ Heart stuff" as he called it had its
commercial value but did not inter-
est him. Around him sat a class
OF men and women with pencils and
| pads resting on the arms of the
| chairs. All eyes were focused on
| the girl who sat next TO the pro-
fessor reading her story from man
uscript.
You knew from her dark pensive
! face, her big pathetic brown eyes
and sensitive mouth what kind Of
story she would write. II was a
| pathetic story full OF dreams and
imagination. Opening with a scene
where a business woman receives
/ the announcement of a raise TO
! big salaried position and goes home
| TO her lonely apartment and tells
/ an imaginary man about il. The
wOuld-be authOTess had just reached
| the part where the heroine is tell
| ing of her empty life when the prac-
teal materialistic voice of the pro-
lessor broke in with, "Is this sup
| posed 10 be a pathetic story? If so
your copy is all wrong, you cannot
| get any sympathy for a woman who
has just had a big raise in her sal
airy and a better business position"
"Oh, l don't know about that. ."
said a protesting female voice.
yours is a mans point of view. 1
can imagine a woman having reach
ed a position she had been working
for for years. and going home to a
lonely apartment and feeling what
does it all amount to. if she has
missed love and companionship out
OF her life"
We'll, this is evidently not going
to be a mans story" said the pro-
fessor. but go on with it,"
Again the girl took up her read
ing The practical side of her hero
inc was dwelt on. her success as a
business woman. Again she was in
terrupted
THAT combination of the practi-
cal, clever-headed woman and the
iGealistic dreamer could never go to-
gether," said a protesting masculine
voice.
You don't know what you are
talking about" said another woman
we women are not at all like you
men. We can have our ambitions.
We may suddenly find we have some
Sreat talent. some wonderful execu-
tive ability. but don't you forget if
the completeness of all the triumph
can ne spoiled by the loneliness Of
not being able to share it with some
who loves you, and sympathizss
| with you"
We'll, Of course. ii is very fatter-
ing 10 us men. to think how much
we add TO the scene, by sitting in
the easy chair" began a mans voice.
But the trouble is they are sell
dom there when you want them, -
interrupted a woman who looked as
l. she knew a thing or two.
There seems to be so much con-
troversy about this story" said the
professor, Il think il would be well
for you to take it home and revise
it a little"
There was a bit Of a skeptical
smile around the corners of her
mouth as she left her place for the
! next conner. A looked that seemed
TO say, oh you materialist"'