The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30

next how she prefers mature men to
callow kids, he swallows it, hook, line
and sinker.
How any girl of IS can run a film
fam game on a man of sixty-odd who
has engineered big deals and outwit-
ted the sharpest of his own sex. is one
of the mysteries that will never be ex-
dozens of times.
Then there's the intellectual man,
the man of books, cultured, deeply
read. How often do we see him mar
ried by pretty little goose who new
er read anything deeper than a Rob-
ert Chambers novel in her life, and
who hasn't two ideas in her head.
Yet the wise man has married that
little idiot believing that he could get
companionship from her and that be-
cause her eyes were bright with youth
there was intelligence and understand
ing behind them.
You would think that a man who
had devoted much of his life to a study
of feminine psychology, and who
could theoretically pick all of woman's
moods and lenses to pieces and an
alyze them, could see thru the little
arts and affectations of any woman
and know them for what they are.
But he can't. His theory may be
perfect, but when he tries to put it
into practice on some Individual wo-
man who has marked him for her
! own, there is some hitch in the pro-
ceedings. She gazes soulful1y at him
and he is convinced that she has a
deep nature. She listens to him with
unwavering attention while he dis
courses on his favorite hobby and he's
persuaded that she has a profound
mind. She murmurs "Oh, how won
derful you are" every time he pauses
to take breath, and he never doubts
that he has at last found a woman ca
Of
and finest in art and literature.
Yet this is all old stuff out of wo-
mans hereditary bag of tricks that
| has been handed down from mother
to daughter since the time of Eve.
You wouldn't think a man would any
more fall for it than he would for
the sick-Indian and gold mine stunt,
| yet fool women are still acquiring
brilliant husbands by this simple ex-
pedienI every day.
Most men desire domestic wife,
and they artlessly believe that a girl
who will put on a white apron and
make fudge, or who darns her silk
stockings il the parlor when she has
| company, can be relied on to be a
thrifty wife and a good cook. More
| marry on that platform, only to find
| out that the White apron and the
darning were as unreliable a bit of
domestic camouflage as the little shirt
tina Becky Sharp was so many years
sewing on in public for her son that
he grew up to be a man while it was
| a-making.
David Warfield explained once that
the way he made people cry was by
working his chin. Women had beat
him to that discovery by several thou
sand years. Every woman knows
| how to make her lips CULVER and her
| eyes fill up with tears, and that when
| she has done that she has registered
helplessness, weakness, piteous de-
| call himself a brute and give her
whatever shI's asking him for, even
If it's his OWL life and happiness.
| That's the way thousands of ner
/ are married and they never know it,
| poor dears
| Generally speaking, men judge
women by these simple rules: II a
| woman has a good complexion. pearly
| teeth, and large blue eyes, they at
! tribute every angelic virtue to her. If
| she opens her eyes very wide and has
| what is known in feminine parlance
as the baby stare. she is perfectly in
| nocent, no matter how much appear
a1ces may be against her. If she
| cries easily she is very tender hearted.
| If she is a good listener she is in
! telligent. If she jollies man to beat
| the band she is woman of profound
| taste an6 judgment II, she has on a
simple looking dress, that she is very
cially any female relative, who tries
to put a mcn wise about any other
| woman is a cat.
Oh. yes, men are easy for women
to work Which is Gods mercy to
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