The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-25
HER SIDE-AND HIS
MAN TO MAN-TOM TO DAVID
BY ZOE BECKLEY

Dear Dave: Doubly damned is the
man into whose work butts womanl
Shake, Dave, companion in misery!
Not that my case is half as hard as
yours, although 100000 pin pricks get
to be as bad as a knife trust. The
woman in my case, as undoubtedly in
yours, is a dear girl in her right
place-out OF my workshop. But 1
have to hold on to myself when Beth,
my wife, comes into my office in rush
time, stares at my women help to
make sure they re not prospective
correspondents, stares at the poor APP
pie woman even to make sure that she
is poor and not living off me on hush
money!
With the exception, of course, that
your wife is one of the dearest, sanest
women on earth, can feel very intel
ligently with you in your plight, with
dilemma horning into your work and
woman on each horn.
That's rare, hard question you're
asking me to advise on-can YOU
throw your she-boss the flirt sop she
wants and get away with it? And
yet the answer is easy, too Can a
man walk a six-inch plank high off
the ground and not fall off? 1t de-
ponds, of course, on the man and the
plank. And in your case it depends
on the man, the woman and the other
woman-Cora 1 might also add it de-
Ponds on the first woman's husband,
only that as you have said nothing
about him l suppose he doesn't count.
oh, I know, Dave, / am only side
stepping the question with old stuff!
But really what else is there to say?
You know yourself better than I do,
except, perhaps, that you haven't got
the perspective Of yourself as mar
ried man. You know Cora. She's
sterling, but with a woman's limi-
tation of viewing the mans side of
things. But if there is any woman
who can be at all made to see the
mans point of view Cora will be the
girl. "Will be-" L say, for am sure
the last thing woman learns of men
is that man can be more polygamous
than a woman and still love his wife
not bit the less.
Yes, Dave. we men are all lodge.
brothers of the disreputable order of
polygamists! The decentest among us
stay away from lodge meetings be-
cause we value our life mates too
much to lose them for an occasional
stag party at the lodge. But all of
us, to greater or less degree, are
eligible in spirit if not in fact
If you were to treat Cora shabbily
] should feel very badly toward you
But if, with your heart all for Cora,
you should philander with your Diana
Amazon-Venus of boss in order not
to lose the wonderful business oppor-
tunity her good will means, I would
only say, with all good conscience
toward Cora "Of course, old man,
it's all in the game of bread and but
teri"
And I haven't got my tongue in my
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o reside, will spend the winter with Mr.
md Mrs. J. F. Graham.
Mrs. John B. Reid and Mrs John p
Evans left yesterday for Selma, wher,
hey will attend the wedding of thei
lfece, MISS Ann Hundley Agee and Mr.
eugene Elabash this evening.
Mrs. Robert Parker left yesterday for
visit to her sisters in Montgomery.
Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards and son, Johl
). Edwards, accompanied by Mr.. an
Irs. j. F. McChesney of Chicago, spen
! few days in the city with friends, Ell
quite to Miami, Fla. They motore,
through the country.
Miss Lewis Warren of Richmond, Va.
s the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. e. w. Bar.
EFT at their home on Highland avenue
Iiss Warren will leave tomorrow for At.
anita, where she will join her mother
frs. l.. B. Warren, and will go to New
'ork, where they will spend the winter.