The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-01-12
Through the
Widows Lorgnette
BY HELEN ROWLAND
Copyright, 1920, by The Wheeler
Syndicate Incl

Syndicate, Inc.)
Some day." announced the Widow,
as she extravagantly dropped two
Jumps OF sugar into the Bachelors
cup, II am going to tell the real truth
about women!"
The Bachelor raised his eyebrows
with glance Of anticipation.
What have they DONE" he inquired,
Ito drive you to this cruel extremity"
Nothing" admitted the Widow,
helping herself to wicked looking
marion glace, But I do get SO un-
speakably tired of reading all these old
platitudes by the 'heart-throb' writer's,
on How to Win A Man. How to Hold
a Husbands Love- and all that! Just
as though any love you had to clutch
at was worth holding!"
"Bravo!" cried the Bachelor, clap.
ping his hands, But" he added with
a sudden afterthought, considering
the splendid working knowledge you
already have, why do you continue to
read them?"
Because" explained the Widow, II
still cherish a desperate sporting hope,
that some day, some writer will say
something different, something new,
something enlightening! But they
never do! They all begin in exactly
the same way, with exactly the same
false premises, and end in the same
haze of glittering generalities. Even
Elinor Glynn, who ought to know bet.
ter"
"Or-worse! interpolated the
Bachelor soto voice.
Even Elinor Glynn," repeated the
Widow, starts right off with the old,
old banal statement, that man is a
natural-born Hunter!"
well, Isn't he?" demanded the
Bachelor innocently.
"Of Counsel" The Widow waved
her teaspoon with a gesture Of scorn
And woman is a natural.born Fish
er!"
What" The Bachelor almost tip
ped over his tea.
"You overlooked that. didn't your
laughed the Widow, That's what they
all overlook, or forget OF ignore. They
always assume that a lwoman's one
wild desire is to be the quarry in the
love-chase, and that her one consum
never give her credit for having any
! sporting instinct or any anlty or any
prowess, or any interest on earth In
attracting man, except in order to
/ marry him.
Stop" cried the Bachelor, in
shocked tones, you're shattering one
OF my most cherished Illusions You
must be talking about a "vamp!S
I'm mott" protested the Widow
I'm talking about a normal, mice
average girl, who enjoys attracting g
man just for the sake of-of being at
| tractive, and enios her sentimenta
fishing just as man enjoys his
hunting"
But, if a girl doesn't fish for 6
husband" inquired the Bachelor il
frank bewilde1ment, what Does she
fish for?"
For the pleasure of fishing, Mr.
Weatherby! For glory--for vanity
for excitement! What does a mar
fish for? He doesn't catch a fish, be
cause he Wants it, does he-but JUS
because he wants to see If he Cal
catch 1t. Yet, every time a girl cast
her lines or her smiles in a mans di
rection. he hears wedding bells, an,
sees 'Object-matrimony written al
over her! Whereas, she may be dc
ing 1t purely unconsciously-"
"Or merely for practice but fl
the Bachelor cynically, ITO test he
ability to catch a bigger fish,"
WELL" admitted the Widow grude
ingly, "A girl Must practice on some
body at some time. She couldn't pos
sibly want to marry All the men t
whom she tries to be agreeable an
pleasant and attractive and charminf
And yet, I've seen half a dozen me
in the same ballroom at one time, a.