The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-15
New York Woman Writer
Links Murder Case With
Universal Social Evil,
BY Ada Patterson.

BY Ada Patterson.
NkW YORK, Aug l5.-"Hc was a
man with a heart like an artlchoke" e."
A man was speaking of John l., DE
SaullcS--l man whom YOU aud and
the rest OF the public know well through
his deeds and through the press-"hard
working" man OF that order OF achieve
ment that is paid by checks instead OF
weekly pay envelopes, by thousands in
stead OF tens or twen,ies, or hundreds,
man OF vision so clear that he sees the
bottom OF the muddy stream OF human
! lives as clearly as a trained woodsman
sees the lcafy channel of brook
! His allusion was clear enough. You
remember the French proverb about the
man whose heart was like an ar,ichoke
because every woman who passed could
and usually she did, pluck leaf from
! it2
He Was Good Fellow"
Such a man, it appears beyond doubt,
was the former Yale football hero
business man OF a kind, soldier of for
tune and idol oi many women.
Everybody liked him" "He was the
most charming conycrSationaliSt ever
met" "thc most fascinating chap ever
knew" Il can't imagine so charming a
chap being cruel to any one" So runs
the beads in the lltany Of the slain mans
| praise Cheerful he was, a man with a
ready smile and a quick wit He was
what most of us are seeking good com
pany, when We should 20 farther and
seek a good man.
Same Thing in Different Way,
Thus they appraised him ia what
might be termed a useful stratum OF so
cicty In the decorative. though some
what lurid StratumS OF Broadway, they
are SAYING the same thing in different
phrase. "llc was adorably handsome
To women he was irresistible out
OF the half prison, half sickroom, OF the
gray-walled jail at Mineola come two
bitter added words, and unresis,lng"
In the last words we probably find
tho heart OF the truth--"and unresiSt-
ing Recall the men YOU know who
have had hearts like artichokcS II
they had been women YOU would have
doomed them socially by the word pro
mlScuouS' But there are words that
seem to be used for women as common
ly aS are skirts; no one thinks OF apply.
,ng them 10 men 1t isn't fair it il
, only true
Brand Them as They Are.
!, ior ono, intend to apply the wore
ptom,SCuous to every man | know who
is Lax IN habit and universal in taste
Join me, friends It will help hi
toward aboliShlng what We, in mealy
mOuthcd fashion. have termed the socia
evil Some ot us are more afraid q
words than ui guns Let us iii IN,
word TO the man and his deeds Tn,
arichokc man is man OF promscuou
deeds and habits.
lie isn't IN all cases the pursucr
, chiefly because he doesn't have 10 I've
, Many women are willing to turl
pur,ucr II the quarry seems wor,l
while See your Bernard Shaw. Al
, aruchokc man will permit the pass
, lng woman to pluck leaf out of hi
heart and smile His is the motto
Take the goods the gods provide
1t is peculiar TO the man with tha
, kind oi heart that he does no resist
/ ing The white faced, hlaok-eyed, ST
; lent woman IN the Mineola jail coul,
tell YOU u she would, that that is tn
reason for her broken heart and iic
Fascinating Man Need Not Pursue.
II a man IS handsome and iaScl
mating and rich in surface attractive
ness, that is called magnetism. he nee
not pursue, as the ugly man or m
unmagnctic man does butterflies nj
willingly to his net II their wing
are broken in the net that is thei
concern, not his II Is the way Of
man with a heart like an aftichoke I,
pass ON and forget
For il YOU have forgotten my kisses
81 have forgotten your name"
The man with the heart like an arti.
choke IS usually ol CAV mood
II is a pleasant life Tor the mar
with the heart ike an arDlchoke He
loves and forgeS, but ior those bound