San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-16

Perhaps that's the secret of mems
happiness" said the elderly woman.
1T has much to do with us. but il
isn't completely centered in us.
"They like to climb into a motor
car occasionally, with three or four
other men, and go off for days-ani
forget us! Whereas, most women,
women perhaps, feel just n little
blank if the party is unbalanced for
the want of one man.
Il can't imagine asking only womer
to go on trip with me for the bes;
sort Ola good time. Yet with what
utter simplicity we take it for grant
ed that men are going to have their
best times without u.s."
II loathe the calm complacency OF
the brutes |" said a new voice cheer
fully. There was laugh, and then
the little Fastener said:
>"That's our fault, too. For / be-
lieve that we are only deceiving our
selves when We say that we depend
so upon men-especially those of us
who are already married and have
sons growing up.
1--WE ought to know, il other women
don't, what infants men really are
OF course. they have a good time.
tearing off in the car to eat and play
gamcs-and so would children!
Women Too Complex.
"We.women are too complex. We're
always afraid of missing something
1t isn't enough for us TO be in clean
clothes, and rested, and well fed, and
free to wander abou. under trees and
talk, and listen to music. Everyone
of us would be watching the caterer
out of the corner of her eye if he
happened to be the only male about
the premises"
"Oh, Margaret, and so would men
be watching the waitress if she was
the only woman." the women pro-
tested, laughing.
"Well, / don't care" persisted
Margaret stoutly. ave won't be as
well, or as happy, or as successful as
men until we get them into normal
proportion with all tie other dement's
in our lives.
Its the women who are doing ali
this triangle business, who are up-
setting marriage, and breaking up
homes, and all the rest of it
"When a man has good wife AMI
couple of nice children. he's froe
to enjoy q thousand other things, like
a child. But that's just the moment
that n woman begins TO look about
for sex excitement, and the securer
her domestic happiness is. the more
devoted her husband and the more eff
ficient her servants. the more anxious
she is for thrills outside the home '"
II don't care, it's all mems fault ~
struck in the deep voice of an Amerl-
canized European.
"My father was n noble. but my
mother did not rank with him, and
he never took her to the capital. H.,
took his mistress. who had a suite CT
apartments in our home. by the way.
My mother used to beg to go to court,
he only smiled at her.
I'VE women are predatory race
we have to be. We have to beg and
wheedle and flirt and yield-or we
are lost, Or perhaps it is only that
we did, and we are slow to realize our
power and freedom now.
But at all events" she continued,
above storm of protestant laughter.
Il shall never forget the baffled look
in my fathers eyes wh,n he was
thrown from a horse. and realize,
that he was dying, and had no choice
but to leave my mother and me rich
and frce.'
81 shall marry n rich man." said
the voice of an eight-year-old niece
in my ear, as she assiduously finished
the prune whip, "and have two boys
and then have him die and be q
widow. cause that's the best of all
isn't it,"
But in the general bubbub IL was
fortunately possible to stifle with
wrapped taffies the horrible voice OF
the coming generation.
Copyright, 1923. hy the Republic
Syndicatc.)