Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-15

tyrant. ScOld.
tefmagant. or sly puss. whose
AtiOn of the mere male was Just as
elective as her clustering sisters.
IVES, the demure, downcast eyed.
4 Quaker type of female existed
largely in the imagination of the senti-
mental male novelists. How they loved
70 picture Mariana at the Moated
Grange, watching eternally for her
lover--or some frail creature who sighed
and wept and tainted. and at last pined
away and died. Male vanity enjoyed
thinking that delicate maidens were
withering on the stem. or fading away
and giving up the ghost. for love of
them! Even so modern and intellec-
tual a man as Tennyson wrote one of
his most Exquisite poems on the rather
impossible theme of maiden's up and
dying merely for love. "Launcelot and
Elaine" were incipient lovers--but Sir
Launcelot was compromised by a thrill
ing and guilty love affair with the wife
OF his dearest friend, and queen at
that-Guinevere
Instead of the pure lily Elaine's being
shocked and disgusted that her ideal
knight was so dishonorable. she went
right on worshiping him until she died
of broken heart. and her faithful old
dumb servant placed her bier on
barge. lighted candles and rowed the
beautiful corpse down the river to
Launcelot. Readers were supposed to
weep ut the tragedy.
1lIELL, maybe girls whose lives were
w empty. and whose imagination
threw them into fever, died of love,
but we are pretty sure that men do not .
30 great an authority as Shakespeare
corroborates our belief on this point.
He says. Men have died and worms
have eaten them.
But not for love-
We cannot keep our husbands by
too much love. II really bores u man
to distraction 10 have saccharine ca =.
resses lavished on him endlcssly. Then
too. the modern male. even be he a
"Tired Business Man" would be hor-
rified If his wife toted out his slippers
and knelt down and put them on his
feet. If she tried to fill his pipe for
him he probably would say, "Oh. my
dear, for heavens sake. let Inc do that.
Get yourself a cigarette and sit down 80
GO MUCH for the Old-ti sugges-
~ tions as TO methods of ingratiating
ourselves with our spouse. They never
worked. 4 famous murderrss, young
and exquisitey beautiful. declared that
she always overwhelmed her husband
! with flattery, telling him he was the
handsomest, Clevercst and most ador :
able man in the world. Feed them
S-G hos, ,I, ,t.n. -, - a.
to keep them she said, or words tc
that effect.
Now. the singular thing about this
recipe is that she not only failed to re.
tain her husbands affection by its use
(even when rich and beautifully bu
. she found him so unfaithful that sh'
! divorced and murdered him.
x Evidently that rule did not worl
~ little bit.
Il Even from the husbands standpoint
81 tt was not very satisfactory to be fiat
r. tered and then killed. Most men woul'
Il prefer less adulation and long life :
as NOV, as we have often said. th'
IN modern man does not want Il fussy
complaining, narrow puritanical wife
He appreciates a good fellow" VIII
will be efficient enough to leave he
home at moments notice and go wit
him on business trips. lie likes
woman who plays golf with him. an
hes not criticize his little vices. am
aeeume Il "holier- than thou attitude
II wife will join n man In most of hi
sp0rts and interests she need not Ii
awake nights trying to plan ways q
s.holdtng" his affections. That Is, as
sulning that she. retains her pleasan