The Washington herald., 1918-10-16

reer instead OF being fool enough
TO marry.
This is what they are continually
saying to themselves. and they be-
lieve every word of it. for nothing
is so easy as self-deception. espe-
cially when we are administering
soothing syrup to our own vanity.
And il utterly units them for the
work they are called upon 10 do,
| for you couldn't expect a woman
who saw herself as a Bernhard.
or a CALI Curci, or an Edna Porter
| to take any burning interest in
turning out a workmanlike job of
bread. or darning little stockings.
or trying TO keep an ordinary bust
ness man happy and fascinated.
The husbands Of these ladies,
who so bemoan the fact that their
talents are tied up in the family
tablecloth. make a fatal error when
they try to keep their wives at
home. Every man who has a wife
who is sure she is a wasted genius
should urge her to go to it at once.
il not sooner. and have a tryout Of
her talents. and get her real num-
ber. For in that way. and that way
only. can she work the career virus
out OF her system.
Perhaps once in a million times II
would develop that the woman had
genius. That would be all right.
because in such a case nobody has
the right TO hide the sacred flIme
under the domestic bushel or to
keep IL for private deIeCtation. But
in all the other 999.s99 cases it
would be an humble and Chastened
wife who would come back home.
with all of her exaggerated ideas of
her abilities taken out of hey. once
and for ell. and glad enough that
she had q home to come back to,
and a good husky man to make a
living for her.
For there are two things that the
woman who has never tried to make
her way I'm the world doesn't know.
The first of these is that a cold and
callous public uses very different
measuring stick in gauginE talest
from the one used BY ones friends
and dinner guests. The woman Nho
has fanCied herself a great emotional
actress because she was applaud to
the echo when she reCited Little
M-a-abel with her fa-a-ace against
the window pa-a-ne" in 4 cracked
voice at the church Sociable. or who
has been urged to 20 into grand opera
after she gang The End OF a Perfect
Day" to guests who had three rounds
| of cocktails, finds out that real man
ayers laugh at her when she shows
them what she can do.
She also ascertains that the poorest
| professional is a million times better
than any gifted amateur. and that the
talent that looks so big in Squeedunk
shrinks 10 infnitesimal proportions on
! Broadway.
The second thing the near-genius
learns is that even when one has tall
ent that the road to career is long
hard and rocky; that it means such
work. such self-denial such sacrifices
as she has never dreamed of. and the
1 patient swallowing of such arfronts
as she cannot stomach. II is only in
| fiction that there is any quick and
easy success. In real life success is
only won through blood and tears
! Wherefore, the near genius wife
packs her trunk upon day and hies
back home. and husband never has to
hear again of the sacrifice she made
| in marrying him.
The only cure for the career craze is
to let a woman go up against it good
and hard. That brings her TO her
serses.
| Copyright, 1913 By the Wheeler Syndicate. Incl