Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-09
W7INIFRED BLACKS
w SPECIAL ARTICLE
HIS BOSS
Copyright, 1921. by Newspaper Feature servtcs

There he stood at the big luncheon
the other day, the mar of affairs, keen,
practical. practiced, and when he IN
troduced the speaker of the day, he
announced that he was introducing his
official boss.
And the women in the crowded room
smiled and a%pplauded, and the official
boss" rose, cool, composed, charming
and made a very good speech, indeed,
and we all congratulated her and our
selves. and everything was lovely.
But one of the women said to me
on the way out:
What q wonderful man John VIII
liams is. to stand right up and admit
that a woman is his superior officer
and he acted as if he were glad Of It.
Do you think he really wasp
a Matter of Training
And | told the woman that | thought
he really was, and that / didn't see
ANYTHING so wonderful about it.
Of course, if he had been a little
man he wouldn't have done It.
| knew a man once who said he never
felt as if he really knew another man
until he heard what the other had TO
say about omen and saw the way he
acted toward children.
| wonder if it is hard for the average
man to admit that ANY woman on
earth can be as intelligent as he IS.
Are women really more generous,
broader minded and less conceited than
men. or have they just been trained
by the centuries till they know how to
pretend that they are?
Have YOU never seen a clever, reso-
Lutte. broad minded, high souled woman
STOPPING and pretending TO be am 50
that she wouldn't embarras her little
stoop shouldered, narrow minded,
stupid husband by looking taller and
stronger than he?
Have you never observed Il man do
ing the same thing-well, not exactly
the same, but something a good deal
like it? Don't you know q man some
where who bears with his wlfes III
! temper and her extravaganza, and her
petty vanity and her cold-blooded ex-
t%ortion. and preteuds that he likes her
clear to the end Of his days?
] dol know a dozen such men.
Of course, it is largely a matter OF
training-largely a matter Of tradition.
! Nobody liEes a woman who's always
| trying to assert herself. Nobody can
bear a woman who won't try to shield
her husband or her father or her
brother from the consequences Of his
own sh~ort-sighted folly. And the little
man. the vain man, the man who ism
much Of a success in his own par
ticular line does always seem 10 re-
sent a woman who is not little and not
vain and not a failure.
What Do You Think?
There's nothing strange about that
In. the country Of the blind" they
say. "the one-eyed mar is king" Nc
wonder the o~nc-eyed man loves tc
have the blind surrounding him..
Clever men, successful men, real mer
of real affairs don't have to surroune
themselves with s~ycophants or witt
parasites or even with humble de
pendents, to feel at ase
Andrew Carnegie told me once II
an interview that he never saw a MAI
vet as bright as the brightest woman
he knew. and / saw Carnegie's stenog
rapher vince and make a WY tact
when he took down the statement
I'll warrant he's q stenographer-
still.
No. I don't think 1t was wonderful
for John r. Williams to stand up il
o public gathering and announce, witt
a good humored smile, that the woman
speaker of the day was his "Officia
Boss"
/ think it was very clever OF hin
and polite. And I think, also, tina
when he did it, he did what n broad
gauge man would have done, and wha
any little-mined, strutting popinJay, O
d nobody would have died rathe'
than do.
What do you think about it?