The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-18
Which Sex Has the Greater
Influence Over the Other?
It's About A 5O.5O-Split

woman 10 dress, No man can teach
her social tact No man can make
friends for his wife because she'll be
jealous Of the other woman and hate
her and no man ever lived who was
Miracle worker enough to breathe nm
bltion into a lazy slonchY indolent
woman. She that is Joined 10 a Mother
Hubbard cannot be separated from her
gods.
OF curse In countries that have a
hereditary aristocracy a man conlefs on
his wife the rank he ENJOYS. A dukes
wife is a duchess no matter II she was
a bar maid, but In this country social
precedence goes through the female
line, and ninety-nine times out Of a
hundred a man takes hi, wiie's position
instead of her taking his
This is specially true II he marfies
beneath himself His wife fills the
house with her family and friends. and
turns a cold shoulder upon his onneo
ton, and before he knows Il he finds he
has descended 10 her set instead Of
having elevated her to his owl.
WHEN you enter a home you need be
w no Sherlock Holme, 10 tell whether
the husband or the wife is the cultivated
one Of the family. For the woman
makes the home and sets her sign
manual upon H.
II she is intelligent and educated,
and artistic you will see II in the har'
mony and appropriateness Of the fur
niture. You will perceive II in the
books. the music. and pictures. You
breathe ii in the very atmosphere that
pervades everything
But the most intellectual and refined
man alive cannot make this sort Of a
home IL he is married 10 a silly IN
educated, vulgar woman. The uncul-
tiyated man will laugh a little AZ his
cultured wife. and tease her about her
worship Of Ibscn and Wagner, but he is
secretly proud Of her attiinments and
cheerfully contributed the money to sus-
tain them.
The intellectual wife has no sympa-
thy whatever with her unintellectual
husband and she sweeps his books and
collections TO the garnet, or else, frozen
out at home. he takes himself and hi.
treasures to his office.
MORALLY, the same effect OF a
lNl woman's influence over her hus-
band may be observed. When a
man married a large hearted, noble.
tolerant woman he almost invariably
expands in character through a%ssocia-
ton with her. and becomes big, and
broad himself. But let a man OF wide
sympathies and great vision marry a
silly, narrow. p%rejudiced woman, and
little by little you can see him mar
rowing TO her inch wide gauge.
A woman who is Stingy and penuri-
Gus about mon will in time teach her
husband to take a death grip on his
purse strings. A woman who is fault
finding and back-biting will turn her
husband into a pessimist as bitter as
herself, whereas the woman who is gen
erous in thought and deed will make
a philanthropist and optimist OF hei
husband.
But a man neither binders nor help
his wife as she does him. What sht
was when he married her she remains
to the end Of the chapter. All tina.
matrimony seems to do for a woman =
to intensity her faults and virtues. II
is a sort Of mordant that sets the coloi
her character was dyed in her famil,
vat.
In summing up the question, there.
fore, which sex has the greater inilu'
ence over the other, the answer seems
TO he that men have the greater genera
influence. and women have the greater
individual influence.
Which is illogical, as any conclusion
;s hound m he that has A woman in il.