Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-11-14

a dance as it would be to make an old
plow horse run races at night.
He says that when the days work Is
over he is tired in every fiber OF his
brain and body, so tired that It Is
torture to him to have to think or
talk, that he does not feel able even to
make the effort of being entertaining
and amiable to strangers, and the very
thought of having to grin and smlrK
and pretend to be interested, In the
driyel of the bores who constitute the
rank and file of society is enough to
send him gibbering to a maahouse.
Furthermore, he AYERS, the little
narrow margin of the evenings quiet
rest at home is all that stands be.
tween him and nervous breakdown.
Deprive him of that, send him out at
night into noisy crowds, deprive him
of three or four hours of sleep; upset
his stomach with unwholesome eat
ing and drinking, and he would break
under the burdens he bears. No man
who burns the candle at both ends,
even if he burns the candle in the com.
pany of his wife, can hold his own In
business with the man who conseryes
his wick and gets every particle OF
the light out Of it that is in it.
Heaven knows" says the man, i
work like | do for the sake Of my
family. ! give them every indulgence
that / can possibly afford. lavish
things with both hands on my wife,
and why on earth she can't see this
thing from a reasonable standpoint
and quit badgering me, about running
around at night, beats me. But she
can't, and we are everlastingly fight
ing over it, and she considers herself
a poor, neglected, prosecuted wife be-
cause ] won't CAD around with her like
a lounge lizard"
On her side the woman deposes:
81 work just as hard as my husband
does, and at an occupation infinitely
more monotonous. All day long am
at home, shut up within four walls. do.
ing the same things over and over
again.
Il either cook myself. or see to the
cooking, of countless meals that are
eaten up and forgotten. straighten
up rooms that are disordered in an
hour. / wash little faces that are
dirty the next minute. answer mil
lion cries a day for mother"
81 sew, mend and darn and answer
the telephone and run around to the
butchers and the grocer's, and do lit
tie dull odd jobs that have no inter
est in them and that do not take up
any of my mind or give me any thing |
really to think about. It's the infinite
detail work of making home, and |
work that ] am glad to do and love to |
do for the sake of my family, but all |
the same it's treadmill work, and by
the time night comes am sick and
tired of it and feel that / must have
! change or go mad.
at rests me more than anything |
else in the world to dress myself up |
IN my flossiest clothes and go out
and spend the evening at some place
Of amusement. 1t does me good in
every way. -. So
"If / have been to see a play ! am
thinking over every act Of it the next
day as sew my long seams. If l have
been to a dance it puts a spring to
my feet and rythm to the broom
with which / sweep my floors. If
have been to party ! go smiling
about remembering some good talk
Or funny story i have heard. :.
"And, of course, a woman always |
gets everything at last Town to the
equation Other women's hus-
bands take them to places of amuse-
ment; got with them to dinners and
parties. ! feel it slight to me, as If
my husband were possibly ashamed of
he isn't willing ever to take
me anywhere. More than that, a wo-
man likes to see and be seen, and
finally l am proud of my husband
and like to flaunt him off before
other women. a.. -.
$50 there! That's why l think he
should take me about and he's mean
and selfish because he won't And,
if people give way to the
to become hermits they
just dry up in their shells and every