The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
Her Homegoing Leaves Paris Desc
!: late, at Least From the Homesick
Americans Point of View
@UHoEs~~oeoe y 0rso sa~~oor

began with the subject he should have
led up to.
If their war experiences has changed
and developed the mentality of the
women who have followed it, how
about the men? The average soldier
boy has discovered that there are just
two kinds of women in the world
the good and the evil. If he has es-
cared a French wife, he is going back
to the one woman on earth which he
| really loves, and the only one in whom
he entirely believes-his mother. He
| Is going to be a better boy than he
was in the past, 90 his mother.
But there is no use trying to con-
ceal it. war has given him another
estimate of womankind. He feels him
self more the master than he ever did.
He is no longer afraid of woman, and
he is no longer going to be overawed
by her. If she crosses him, woe be.
He is going, to be master in his own
! house. at least he thinks he is. and
he is going to be more violent and
| harder to control. The women he has
met over here have never tried to
| cross him. only to rub his fur the right
7 way and endeavor to please him. Now
! he considers this his simple manly
| due.
| Learned to "Treat EN- Rough"
A Red Cross girl over here received
recently a letter from her maiden
aunt in the middle West, who in
quired: What in the world has come
over the boys! Those that come back
have taken the slogan-Tredt 'em
rough! And they are treating them
rough" the letter adds, "and the girls
arc all complaining"
| He has had his rebuffs, and his
heart aches. The girl he left behind
him has in some cases up and married
his most hatred rival, thus taking a
mean advantage of his absence, while
he was in the trenches up to his neck
In mud and filth. That was a bitter
pill to swallow. and some one, some
other woman, has got TO pay. Then
there is the fellow who left an inno-
| cent girl over there-she who is still
waiting for him and faithful, but he
has changed his point of view. Some
times he persuades himself when look
ing back over some of his life over
here, that he is no longer good enough
for her; he thinks he wants her to
marry some other fellow, one who has
stayed at home who will be worthy of
her and who will make her happy.
There have been a great number OF
officers hotels in Paris during the
war, and in such the canteens. the
cigar counter and the theatre booths
|
young women, mostly college girls
those with an opulent home behind
them. But the catering to the ma
terial wants Of these war heroes has
been only a small and negligible guam
tity as compared to the spiritual and
moral requirements. These hotel
booths have been veritable confes-
SIGNALS.
With the extraordinary conditions
home far away. in a land of strange
customs and an unknown language
with everything pretty much topsy
turvy, men have opened up their
minds, their lives and their troubles
to these friendly, sympathetic faced
girls. In a manner they never would
have done under normal conditions
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markable as scarcely to credit belief
except to those who have been mixed
up in them and who have had the
actual experience.
Hubby VIII PrOnt by Patience.
! There are the married men. But
ah! here we are treading ON delicate
; aground because there is the woman
back home. Will she understand, will
she forgive-if she ever knows, anc
! what loving wife does not know all
by intuition? There may be in the
long run few homes wrecked, but
this will be nothing as compared &c
the ones the war-women have saved
by their level headed, strong willeG
self-sacrifice. The sensible woman
who stayed at home will take this into
consideration when the final adjust
ment comes to be made. She will us,
all her tact and will exercise all hei
forbearance until hubby gets back Il
normal again. when he will pass un
der the rod and once more take uT
the married mans burden.
1t will be hard for him at first, pool
fellow. after his life Of savage freedom
over here. In most cases his straps