South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-07-30
Understanding
Women
By Winifred Black


Women gave lecture the
= other night and all the women
with a dollar 20 spare crowded to
hear him talk. There were only
three men in the audience.
Somehow men never seem to like
Man Who Understands Women.
I'm afraid agree with the mon.
The Man Who Understands Wo-
men. or thinks he does always seems
10 mean one particular kind OF wo-
man, and she seems TO be so very
simple that anybody. even an infant
IN arms. could understand her.
She's vain and she's silly; and she's
deceitful and she's Jealous. and she's
catty and she Is nearly always moro
than a little naughty.
If she is good-she's good because
she has 10 be-never because she
wants to be.
II she's wise--she's worldly wise.
II she is cleve--she's just the echo
of some clever man who endured her
stupidity long enough TO teach her
TO parrot him.
II she's pretty-she can't help H.,
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II she's kind-she's just trying TO
curry favor with some man so that
he will buy her a string OF pearls
or something.
She really is getting TO sc a good
deal OF 2 nuisance-the woman The
Man Who Understands Women un-
derstands.
Where on earth does he meet her
Who Is she and what Is her real
name?
1 know a good many hundreds Of
women-thousands 1 think-and the
only place 1 ever saw one in the least
like the heroine of the Man Who
Understands Women-was in the po-
lice court or in the divorce court or
in the movies or in a cheap novel,
or a cheap and lurid melodrama.
What rubbish It Is TO talk about
understanding women" as II all wo-
men were exactly alike-an cut out
by the same little paper pattern.
How many women do you know
yes, you who read this-who are
very much like each other?
There's Mother. Mothers plain
straight as a die-a little sharp in
her Judgment, maybe a trifie fussy
over the exact way the chairs ought
TO Standard oh, how It worries
Mother If you waste a nickers worth
Of lettuce when you make the salad
Mothers daughter. Betsy. Is ro-
mantle and up in the airish-and
Betsy doesn't mind stretching the
truth just a tiny bit il Il happens
TO be convenient. She wouldn't tell
a malicious fb fo- the world, but the
truth is something a little hard to
face and Betsy never faces lift she
can help It.
Katherine-she's Mothers daugh-
ter, too. and is she like Mother or
Ike Betsy in any single way? She
is not!
Katherine is artistic. Anything
out Of order hurts her terribly. Oh.
no. she doesn't care whether It's
dusty or not. or mended or any
thing-but 1t must hang just so. and
get exactly such light. or she can't
bear to look at It Katherine can't
live without music. She pines and
droops unless she has just so much
harmony in her life.
Mother is an excellent cook.
Betsy says she'd starve before she'd
go into a kitchen.
You ought TO see her mothers face
when she talks about the things
Katherine likes to cook
Mother married Father because he
was a good. sensible man and she
knew he could take care OF her. oh.
yes. she liked him-she knew he
was honest and all right.
But Betsy won't marry anyone
unless he's a millionaire or duke
or something.
Katherine? on. Katherine VIII
step out some evening and marry a
dark-eyed stranger without a cent
TO his name and not the least idea OF
ever getting one-and she'll spend
the rest OF her life trying 20 pretend
she's perfectly happyi
The Man Who Understands wo-
men would probably say that Mother
. a cold-hearted. mercenary fiend.
Betsy under his MICROSCOPE. would
turn into a weird freaE who ought
20 be in the observation ward at the
County Hospital
Katherine? oh. Katherine would
be meat and drink for the Man Who
Understands Women. Whenever
Katherine had a comfortable little
cry. because somebody said some
thing that hurt her feelings. the Man
Who Understands Women would
,,aLa bar ont a VAN Mira mourning
because there was no one 20 vamp.
What a pose II all is. after all
this understanding women" and
how tired we do get OF IT.
II takes more than a casual ac-
with two or three easy
going ladies' to get at the heart OF
the plain. everyday. wholesome. hon
est. real woman-let me tell you
that-you who are 30 clever 81 'nln-
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