San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-28

that sort of party. She read-well. IN
Usual books. Dostoevski, for instance,
end William James. And the vamp had
added one more scalp to her belt.
Don't blame the vamp. Size is usual.
ly a woman without ambition, withOu.
q nursery, profession, or responsible
ties of any kind.
She is frequently a woman devoid Of
intelligence, all except a certain sex
Instinct that makes her shrewdly proud
Ci her surface conqueSts, and childish
" sure that all women would make
them if they could.
She knows that men hover about her
as children hover near a candy shop.
because they like sweets. AnG this taste
for sweets seems to her something to
he INDUCED rather than controlled.
His wife treats n man as a reasonable
human being; she speaks to him Of
furnaces, cCIkS, shoes. schooling. fam
liz dinners and rent. But tic vamp re.
members that the best of them is only
a sugar-loving child, that the hOmcliCSt
of them likes TO hear that he has n
natural marcel in his hair. that the
dUllest of them likes to have what he
said yesterday recalled and quoted to-
day.
This consideration ought to be a
great comfort to any woman who Is
writing under the humiliation of see
ing her husband entrapped For it Is
| the fundamental truth of the whole sit
uatiOn.
If she doesn't believe it. and has the
| heart and spirit for an experiment, let
/ To-, Nr,,
| Let her steel herself to weather the
initial rebuff-the yamp usually has to
meet this in the beginning-and she
will find herself vamping with aston.
isLing ease and success.
Let the Wife Realize This.
Or let her realize this. Tie moment
| the instaht-a vamp dares to admire
| any other man, or to stop personalities
or to make those personalities family
urflattering, that instant her power
ceases.
The man who has been her slave
never fOrgives her that. She admireS
o male screen star, or-worse-she says
that that new man at the club is tho
type that all women adore, and hel
victim drops her with a bitter disil
lusiOnment and a painful rapidity tina
SIZE never forgets. For a vamp Away!
pays heavily sooner or later.
Fortunately, for our homes children
domestic peace and national safety
rIOst women are not vamps.
1t is a cheap game. at best, ruled b!
petty laws of vanity and self-deceiving
too easily begun, it is an awkwar;
business 10 end satisfactorily.
And when it is played out, there Is I
dismal time of awakening-whe tn
man who was vamped has to readjus
himself humbly and uncOmtOrtably T.
honest, open-eyed living again. and ha
to somehow rc-establiSh himself in th
eyes of the woman who has always beer
faithful to him, who has been patien
and indulgent even through this in
sanity.
A Splendid Part to Play.
The wife Of such a man has a splen
did and romantic part to play; Only
tragically enough, most wives don
realize it.
If she is woman enough to let hin
see that she realizes perfectly the IN
wholesome meal of sweets AID pastrie
he is ENJOYING. and at the same time t
fill her own life to the brim with az
tivities and engagements that leave hir
absolutely free TO follow his will-OI
the wisp; If she can remember, an
even good naturally suggest T" him no.
and then, that such a woman deals j
f;attery as a grocer deals in sugar, the
she is doing a great deal to hasten tn
inevitable moment when her bad chi!
Genes home with indigestion, and
headache, and asks her to forgive biz
last this once.
And in all the mumuring perfumCC
stolen. exquisite hours that the YAM
Las krtwn with him, she has had n
such glorioNi moment as comes to HI
wife then!
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