The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-19

you bet she can have my seat-an' so any
body what's more entitled to it than what am"
And he rose raised his hat to the girl, and took
his strap.
Sylvia took her thumb out of the book on the
emancipation Of the geishas.
My wife takes all the worst of IT, at that
but you bet your lfe lady, she amt screamin for
women's rights" she whispered over to her.
self. If there were woman under the sun who
needed rights it would be the wife, the mother
of twins, the partner of the man out of work with
problems bowling at her from every direction.
And yet she willing to sit at home and let the
man go out and settle them for her; and if he
couldn't settle them, that settled them with her.
anyway.
81 see," she said to the bookbnder, "she is an
od-fashioned sort, your wife. She lets the man
handle the wage-earning and she looks after the
home"
"What do you mean the man? HER man. And
who wouldn't, if he didn't? You don't think she's
gonna work half the time in a shop an me watch
the twins half the time at home, do you? Say
nature laid out our jobs for us. I'd be about as
nifty in her line she'd be in mine"
"Ah-but you say some girls did cut you out
of yours. Is that right?"
"It's so-but it amt right. But that's only half
of it. You never heard of man who could cut
my wife out O. hers did you?"
Sylvia couldn't readily answer that. The one
fiat wheel below kept grinding and it seemed to
her it was repeating 'She's got all the rights she
wants. She wishes I had a few more"
True enough, despite all the fine philosophy of
b-sexual equality. If he had more rights what
would he do with them? Give them to her That
was what he wanted the rights for, in the first
place "She knows if had more I'd give her
MORE" clacked the fiat wheel
Here was one woman who didn't need equality
Here was a man who yielded it too her--more
he demanded it for her and was fighting to get it
for her. Sylvia looked him over He was no
lowbrow, thirsting for moonshine or bolshevism
soured against the more fortunate-he was a man
of ideals of altruism; he wanted comfort and ham
pness for his woman and his kids. He more than
willingly assumed the burden for four. Could his
wife do that? Yes--in her way-not in his
Il hope you find work." she said to him. "And
if you don't call up this number and ask for me-"
and she gave him her card 81 can get you some
kind of work. ! know man who would do
anything I'd ask him"
Thanks, lady" he said, she left the car.
iOne man who would do anything I'd ask"
repeated Sylvia, with afterthought. "The first
minute it comes to something specifically practical
! think l,,1 Of Ches Why didn't say could do it
And she thought of the northumberland the
wife-and the twins.
The picture jiggled about in sylvia's memory
for MANY hours She didn't see Ches again until
next day.
well, sweetness--how's the lii mountain ante
lope; !; ne asked tenderly, after he had kissed her;
"Oh, we'll enough. But ! sort of--that is,
kind Oft want to amend my policies"
"Now
"Yes. | think men and women should be equal.
But no longer think that they should be equal
just because they are men or women. think the
treatment should not be too comprehensve-1t
should be more indvidual--that is to say"
"Never mind what that is to say. I'm for It
Treat me individually, honey and I'd
like to see anybody on earth make me think he's
fexxF oil Gha'G