The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-15
BY NlxoLA GREELEY SMITH.

Young man, shuddering on the brink
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. with reluctant
feet where the girl and license meet
stop, look and listen to Mrs. Mary
Austin. who declares that the girl who
plays the game the girl vino Keeps
you guessing in short, the girl you
lave about decided TO wed, is not the
girl for you.
l have known for years that Mary
Austin possessed an uncanny knowl-
edge of men, positive clairvovance
about women. So when | read in 1.-THE
Ford" the latest novel Of this brilliant
writer and feminist, that men must not
marry women who make them feel I
the National Arts club, which she
makes her home, TO talk it over.
THE worst thing man can say
about woman, though he does know
1t, Is that she won him f." Mrs. Austin
began. For men are won by women
by appeal to their weakness, who flat.
ter their maleness. What do We mean
by playing the game" What does a
man mean when he says a woman
keeps him guessing Simply that she
will stoop to the business of provoking
his emotions triclling his senses. This
Is the easiest game in the world for
the woman INSCRIPTIONS enough to
play It."
Will Always Marry Badly.
Il have a theory, Mrs. Austin that
man always marres the wrong
woman If left TO his own devices"
interrupted.
Certainly" answered the dstin-
guished novelist Given any two
women man always chooses the il.-
ferior. ] have never known il To fail
l hasten to interpolate here that
the prefix to Mrs. Austins name is
sufficient evidence that she is not a
disappointed old maid" and to state
that | am not one either. It may be
difficult for the masculine reader TO
believe that neither of us has been
baked OF our prey by another woman
of superior tinesse, but if he is going
to follow this conversation any further
he will have to accept that assurance
Men not only marry women merely
because they make them feel, but they
believe generally that It Is wife s
chief job to maintain them IN thi:
state OF feeling" Mrs. Austin said
This is contrary to nature. The bird r
beautiful plumage drops when the
courtship is over. A Womans bust
ness in marriage is bringing up y
family, not stimulating or inspiring
a husband. A man should not have
to be eternallY chucked up II the bust
ness of getting his job done, and low
ing his wife and children And quite
often if q woman has 10 scruples
against making the proSocation o.
emotion a life work. she IS the Ia
woman an intelligent man shonIc
choose TO be the mother Of his chill.
dren''
Women OF intellect don't play tn,
game any longer remarked (,
Mrs. Austin, because the game de
mands the sacrifice of self respect
When Il superior woman has I,
choose between the man and her sou
she choose her soul and the otho'
woman gets the man. But YOU SO,
men should not marry women VIII,
play the game Don't you know
they rarely recognize that The gam,
is being played on them, poor dul
dears? How on earth is a man TO lIee,
from marrying the girl who keep.
him guessin2'-or plays the game
when he doesn't ey en- know the gam,
when she tries It on HIM"
That will be a matter of educa ton
Women will have to educate thoil
daughters not to value themselves by
what they can make men feel" Mrs
Austin replied, land to teach thel.
sons TO value women for What they
are, not for the way they affect men
The whole feminist movement i
simply the effort OF women to be
valued for what they can do, not fol-
what they can make men feel. Mer
oppose woman's fight for equal pay
That Is not because men object t,
paying for work. 1t Is because they
object to a woman's having any value
outside of what she can make then
feel like giving her.
Men Pathetic Figure.
Men are very pathetic figures rea
w. Mrs. Austin added. The man o
high executive ability or intellectual
force spends his mental energies in hi