The Washington times., 1916-01-25

| ooTsy daughter. the pretty girl with the
| iussN mamma. the daughtcr-in-law with
| the critical mothCr-in-law. and the two
| slstcrs-we called them Beauty and the
Beast" The poor Beast" was ali right
| IN her way. but she was so proud of her
sisters beauty that she talked about it
ana limited till somebody else said some
| thing of it. She brought wells for the
| beautNs ewes and sunshades for the
| BehutN,s complexion and scarfs for the
BeaGtY shoulders till the Door Beauty
nha thar no mere r,t life and volition Of her own
in a bug collector $ enuscum.
me pretty girls fussy mamma was
pretty bad. She didn't want her daughter
TO drink coffee or tea or cocoa. Coffee
made her sluggish. tea made her ner-
| so the fussy mamma said and she
Nouid interrupt any converse ton on
any topic any time to burst into the
breakfast atmosphere and forbid the
bans whenever daughter thought she
was going to SIN by and get some
thing she really wanted for breakfast.
Of course, it became the end and aim
of the whole company to get daughter
out somewhere and buy chocolates for
her or coffee or tea-anythine so that
1t was something that the fussy NAM
ma had forbidden.
The middle-aScd woman didn't get a
minute of peace. Daughter boosed her
in the morning ard bosed her at noon
and bossed her at night.
Mother had to walk, eat sleep. wake
up, dress, lie down, 20 in bathing, and
do fancy work-not when she wanted to
do any of these things herself but
when the bossy daughter made her do
it.
And every single woman in that hotel
was either bossed or bossina
Like the Poor Rabbit.
What in the world is the matter
with us women? Why cant We let
people alone? Why must we insist on
fdssing and fretting and botherinS.
and bossinE every minute Of our
lives?
Now the man who said he felt free
I, as bird when he went downtown
without Kissing his wife is a good
man and good husband. He'd love
l.ut she WOn't-Sho just won't.
she winds hiMl all around in n sillIcn
@keir OF "'nusts" and "ouGhts" and
Nhall5' md shall nots.' till the pocr
man must feel like Gullivcr when he
aWoke and found himself tied hand
and foot by the silk threads of the
Lilliputians.
Why can't she let him alone? Why
won't she allow him to brcatha'
Once | went to a laboratory to see
some scientific experiments. and they
Had a rabbit under an air-tight glohc
and va ed to see how long he could
live there in glass cage without a
particle of fresh air l didn't wait to
Sc" tho end OF the experiment.
couldn't Eut somehow NJ glad |
saw the first OF it. / never sec a MAJ
ricd man Struggling and lighting TO
Keep his own mdividualitV and his
tWn personality without thinking OF
that rabbit in that retort
If ] had lived another day at that
summer resort. I'd have snatChed NV
boss hat from her head and torn it
into ribbons. ld have CaLcht the
book "ut OF her hand and thrown 1t
into the Lake. id have done some
thinC so outrageous and impossible
that no human being would ever have
spoken to me again.
AS it was, | just got telegram"
and had to GO-b"fore my boss was
up 10 see to my packing and advise
m" a1out my ticket and tell me how
to get INV trunk checked.
wonder what poor wretch shes
"bossnE now. ! do hope it isn't her
husband. Poor man, no wonder lie
sends her AVA on lCne vacations.
tCopy't 1876, by Newspaper Feature Scrvicel