Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-15
WOn1Qn,S Life and Love
Woman's Inhun,onity TO Man
BY wINIFRED HARPER COOLEY

most Objectionable type OF woman often
has the finest and noblest type OF hus-
band.
! Mrs. r. was a thin, scrawny, will
lowy type, with kittenish ways that
suggested cuddling and tactful leaning
| on the judgment and strength of the
superior male. She affected everything
youthful, even bobbing her hair, al
though she was past forty. Also, she
always gave the impression of being
nearly an invalid. For long time she
fooled all of her friends. But finally
We began to see that she really was
running her husbands talents and
wrecking his career. For instance. she
| She prided herself on being very broad
minded ana tolerant. But il she be-
came peeved at something, she would
throw herself in feigned illness that
seemed to be convulsions.
The poor husband was almost frantic
He regarded her as having very deli
cate health. and spared her everything
he could. working, and taking care of
her like a baby. His mind never was
at ease: he could not work with clear.
unworried perceptions. He was a
writer
One day, because she was aggrieved
at some trivial occurrence. she went to
the telephone and called him up at a
huge newspaper Office in the big city.
and informed him that she was desper-
ately i'll. While he was inquiring so =
licitously, she dropped the receiver, as
though she had tainted
Picture the poor mans alarm Nat
urally, he rushed home, many miles
uptown, to find her, as he supposed,
ctratpha1 tho Hpnr Sha had ralltnI
she told him. and in time. he returned
TO work. We may imagine how his
thoughts had been interrupted, and how
he berated himself for imaginary faults.
while his work went to smash, as he
had no enthusiasm and keen insight to
put into it.
Now, it chanced that n friend and
called few minutes after he had been
home. Margie was glad TO see us. and
although picturesquely in bed. was gay
and talkative. 1t was only afterward.
by putting two and two together, that
we learned that the tragic incident they
related to us. of her having dropped
the telephone and his rushing home, oc-
Cured the day we called. and just pre-
vious to our visit. 1t was quite clear to
us that she was fake and a fraud.
but Harry was solicitous and worried.
year in and year out.
That wife simply had tantrums!
She was too clever to have them in
the form of anger, for any man not an
actual saint would become irritated at
constant Quarrels and upbraidings. She
took the smooth, underhand. feminine"
way, so effective with males because
they have created this imaginary, help
less type Of woman, and adored It.
Thank heaven, the type is becoming ex-
tinct
But the old time woman who has
nothing to do but annoy and harass her
husband. nagging him to take her
somewhere" or pay more attention"
t5 her, is rapidly passing, as women
take interest in intellectual and philan-
thropic and other outside things. The
morbid demand for all Of mans time
and vitality goes with idleness and
luxury.
There are emotional vampires and
financial vampires. Women are inhu-
man to men when they work them to
death, because they themselves must
have luxurious, degenerate living, and
jewels and costumes. Yes some of us
treat them cruelty; but still maintain
that in the whole wide world women
get the worst Of it.