The Washington herald., 1921-02-09
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Said young man to me the other
day:
What I am looking for is a girl
who possesses the four SIS, and
when 1 find her, I'm going to camp
on her doorstep until she marrles
me or has me arrested for obstruct-
ing traffic in her vicinity.
+ what are the four SIS? They are
'the four cardinal virtues in woman.
They are:
Strength.
, ''Squareness.
Sincerity.
/ Sweetness.
II want a wife who is strong in
mind and bo ly. 1t is to laugh, isn't
IL. to recall that in our mothers
time il was an aspersion on a wom-
ans character to call her strong
minded and men fought shy of her
unless she could prove an alibi by
acting like a ninny, and that in
our grandmother's time it was
thought coarse and vulgar for
girl to be strong and healthy and
have a good appetite, and a per-
feet lady was always ready to pull
off a faint at the slightest provoca-
ton?
well, I don't want any swoon-
ing, ailing woman about me, whose
nerves 1 will always have to be
considering, and who will regale me
with a list of her symptoms when
I come home tired at night.
IF i'll health comes to the woman
marry, L hope that l shall be
enough of a man and gentleman
to show my wife every tenderness
and courtesy and consideration, but
I'm not going to deliberately es-
pOuse a weak, neurotic creature.
and let myself in for a lifetime of
doctors bills. My ideal woman is
one who is husky enough to work
shoulder to shoulder with man
/ and play with him like another
man.
And the wife 1 want must be
strong None Of your baby
! dolls, with never an idea in then
| sawdust head, for me. 1 want
wife who will be a real oompan
ion. One who reads and studies
and thinks, and has opinions of her
own. want a wife with whom
II can talk over my business, and
who. will bring to my aid the keen
| feminine intuition that often
amounts to genius. / want a wife
with judgment, and initiative. who
| will be able to take care OF herself
| in a pinch, and who won't make the
| thought of death a terror to me
because she would be so helpless
| alone.
Then my ideal woman must be
| square. She must be honest. and
honorable. and above board. / know
men who think il a cunning femi
nine trick for their wives to &c
| through their pockets at night. and
get extra money by having ii ca
moufaged as canned goods on tho
grocery bill. and who take every.
| thing their wives tell them with a
| grain of salt.
Il should hate a wife who was
a thief and a liar. ! could never
| look at her without such con.
tempt for her that couldn't endure
her society a single day. Oh know
| that many a woman who is guilty
| of petty larceny is driven to it BY
| her husbands stinginess. But they
need the money" is the excuse thai
| everybody who steals makes, anC
| in these days, when any woman
can make her own living, ii seem!
to me that a really square woman
would get out and earn money be
fore she would sneak it in under.
handed ways from her husband.
| And l must know that my wifi,
is so square that there can be n
place for jealousy in my scheme 0
life. None of the harem stuff 70
me. I want my wife to &C about
to be admired. to enjoy the societ.
of interesting men, and mus
know her to be so straight. so loyal
so true, that it would be as impos
sible a thing for her to betray me
or to do anything to bring q smircl
on the name I have given her, a