Catoctin clarion., 1918-10-31
ONLY PROPER REVENGE
REBuklNG THE PRESUMPTION OF
THE MARRIED WOMAN.
Too Many Seek to Probe Into the
Heart Secrets of Their Less For
tunate Sisters and Deserve
Severe Treatment.

A good many differences might be
made about her own experience In
preserving the tender passion with a
live husband To write so feelingly
of the preservative qualities Of dead
lover naturally suggests that living
spouse gave her cause to do some cob
bling at the rundown heels Of senti-
ment. But-that did not excuse her
impertinence. Nothing gave her the
right in the sight of God, man or
other women: nothing excused her.
A cowboy with a record for men
he had killed finally met his match.
His admiring friends were "stumped"
to find an epitaph to put upon the
monument they builded him. At last
they had craven there In chaste and
forceful simplicity, "He done his
durnedest," |, too, faltering before
the futility of language as means of
expressing just what the married
woman does who aaks the impertinent
question, say. "She does" 1t isn't
necessary 10 repeat the quotation,
Why, the married woman who does
1t Is a social ghoul cavorting heed
lessly, wantonly, cruelty, hideously
on the grave of dead hopes, gouglng
her question into the body Of lost
love! Before she married she was
like other women thoroughfarers
Afterward, seated in the matrimonial
automobile, she dashes headlong
among the ones who still walk and
knocks the very breath out Of them.
Apparently she thinks the marriage
machine is meant to send single
pedestrians scurryng and lodging.
Anyway, that's the use she makes
of it.
If married women forget how IL
feels to be unmarried and asked
why. here is telling them! 1t feels
painful and lonely and sad. It
takes sweetness and courage and an
enormous amount Of the good, gar
den variety of sense to bear up grace
fully. And when idle or thought
less curiosity goes digging and snag.
Cling and punching about In the sore
and sacred places Of the heart, the
suffering and the rage it creates is too
awful to mention.
What really ought to happen to
these inquiring matrons is this:
When one asks a maid the question,
the maid should scare her into gal
Looping Mysteries by looking meaning
ly at her one and only husband and
observing con expressione-"Them man
l love is married."
The matron would THINK Indeed,
she would be thinking even while
she hurriedly pleaded an engagement
and piloted her husband out of tho
maids dangerous neighborhood. Pos
sibly that is all that is needed-just
to set the married interrogators think
ing-to make them realize the enorm
ity of their offense. Surely the utter
violation of good taste, the ineXcus
able intrusion into personal affairs,
the suffering they carelessly create
must make them pause.
If wife asks the REASON and
maid insinuates that SHE is 1T, she
levels the popgun Of her impertiment
inquiry full in the face of another
spinster. And every matron made to
think-and feel a little wholesome
fear, perhaps-will mean one less
maid, at least, to be grilled on the
hot plate of the married woman's
curiosity.
If every pretty and attractive un'
married woman would follow out this
suggestion reformation would be
effected that would enable us to pre-
serve the sacredhess Of our memories
or our pride or-our regulations! It's
worth trying g!--New York Press.