The Ocala evening star., 1920-07-09
lg a laugh against

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woman.
Part of the foregoing is leveled
against ourself. When it comes to
easing anybody, there is sharply
Drawn line between fun and mean
ness. We have generally kept a close
watch for that line, and not few alb
iect apologies have we made when We
found, or thought we had found, we
had gone too close.
The other day we received letter
from a newspaper syndicate up north. /
It wanted to sell US some OF its wares.
Part of said wares were entitled
Most Women Fail in the Business of /
Being a Wife," and three sample let
ter2 were inclosed. They told of three
sorts of wives-one the waster, one
the strong minded woman, one the
card fend.
Part of the letter was what the
syndicate thought would be an induce
ment for the Star to subscribe y ifz
service. It was eanebed III iHae fol-
lowing rnarrsfafN language
tss Boz1Hn 8Aia in ftse aalAAIneas
.s,f III lssm 4 A1aa these articles
<z Il; zHi z|s1zzs kAfsIE ~ Wiz Mbs< q
Snfe declare
'A \: VI d.; some settle for so
Hfa 6n the dollar; and some fight it
out to the bitter end. But the fact
remains that the average woman does
not find the business of being wife
as congenial as she expected. And
this series attempts to show why
why Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Smith find
such joyous misery in detailing to
each other the various brutalities of
their respective partners. Mrs. Smith
will read these articles and show them
to Mrs. Jones who will Immediately
declare them libelous. And inciden-
tally Smith will read them too, and
pass them on to Jones-and after all
that's the sort of article you're look
ing for--isn't it,"
No, indeed, it isn't the kind of ar
ticle we are looking for. Matrimony
land the home, the crowning blessings
of civilization, without which civiliza-
ton is useless, receive too many dis
Icouragements now. And we most en-
lphatically don't believe that Most
Women Fail in the Business of Being
| a Wife"
| A man can be awfully mean to a
woman and say or write lot of tough
jokes about her. But if he is married
or has been married, no matter how
nuch trouble his wife may have made
him, every once in while there will
flash thru his memory. like flicker of
dying glory thru a cloudy sunset the
membrance Of some minute of
sweetness and goodness that only the
darkness of death can blot out alto
Igctner.
So we took our typewriter in our
lap and wrote that sinnedy-kate the
following:
I"Mr Syndicate:
81 have received your letter and
specimens of your work in the shape
of descriptions of The Business of
Being Wife,
You have asked my opinion of
your feature, so I will express myself
las follows:
at is 1otten.
lt Will suit the senSatlonaliSt, the
Ithoughtless man and the flippant
woman. 1t may save some good boy
from joining his fate with that of a
Iyamp, he-woman or an idler, but il
lis just as likely to keep him from
linking heart and hand with good
Igirl who could be happy in making
Ihim happy.
i "Your feature will arouse the con.
Tempt of good men who know what
lgood women are. 1t will bring ar
lache to the heart of any good woman
who reads tia woman who believes
in the inherent kindness and purity o1
her sex ard is trying to bring up 8
daughter to be a good woman or 8
son to honor good women.
Il have known some such womei
as you describe. have known score.
las many who are trying to make hap
Ipy homes for their loved ones. I be
lieve the vast majority of women an.
girls are trying to be decent, helpful
land kind. regard any attempt e
make men think otherwise as treach
Iery to the race, and If you are giver
to writing such stuff, rag picker i.
, Inore use to humanity than Won are