San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-21
Listen, World!
SoW's Ears
By Elsie Robinson

San you MAKE eAh purse A4NA-
sew's ear!
Tradition says the Jobs impossible.
But now comes Holman Wood with
doubts on the subject. Holman's do.
ing editorials and special stories on a
small city paper in the Middle West
He is 80 years old, thin, nervous, and
friendk. He doesn't say so, but !
bet he wears goggles, has buck teeth
and likes outing flannel nighties in
stead of pajamas. Which OF course is
nothing against him-nothing at all.
But it does sort of place him, doesn't
it?
Well, at any rate, whether he wears
'em or not, Love Has Come Into Hol.
mans Life. And Holman doesn't ex-
actiy know what to do with il.
Flossie's q nice girl. She works in
the circulation department of Holman's
paper. She is big and clean and sweet
and rosy gold. When she laughs she
throws her head back and her teeth
are very white against the glowing
pink of her mouth and her body laughs
with her. She laughs a great deal and
at things that never amuse Holman.
Slapstick comedy, the funny strips
in the papers, and people falling on
banana peels. But there's never any
thing unkind in her laughter. Flossie
likes everyone and everyone likes Flos-
sic.
All the world seems brighter and
warmer 90 Holman when Flossie is
around. He forgets about his editor
ials and indigestion. He feels rwen-
~ years younger.
Flossie adores him. She thinks he
is the most wonderful man in the
world. They have delicious jaunts into
the craziest places, places that Holman
would never have dreamed of going to
before he met Flossie. He wonders il
all life wouldn't be filled with this
delightful new warmth if he married
Flossie.
But Holman's sister tells him ii
wouldn't. Holman's sister has seen
Flossie once. She likes her, too. But
she points out the fact that gypsy |
jaunts are one thing and marriage
quite another. For instance, what is |
Holman going to do about the sunsets? |
Holman adores sunsets, and the deli. |
cate, flying line of tall buildings |
against the twilight sky. Flossie would |
not notice a sunset If she stepped on |
one. Holman also loves quiet rooms |
with shabby restful seats and long
shelves of old books-din, peaceful /
rooms. He has never known any other
kind Of rooms.
But Flossie will not make that
kind Of rooms" says Holman's sister
-She will have plaster kewpies with
pink bows on the mantle-piece and
bragg lamps with lots Of lace and |
fringe and artificial roses and suites |
of chairs, all new new and fluffy, and /
imitation Chinese rugs and no books
at all"
@As if that matteredi" SHORES Hol-
man. Il can buy the books, It's the
girls mind I'm thinking about-her
SOUL
But her mind will be like that,
too, says sister. @She will have plas-
ter kewpies and pink bows ideas in
her mind. She will be Kind and good
and honest. But she viii romp all
over your life like a big puppy and /,
you'll get bored to death patting her
on the head and trying to make her
be still. Then you'll both be misera.
bic. You'll have to take her to the
movies and go on the scenic railroad
with her and scream at the Jokes in
the paper, and"--
Holman won't believe it. Sisters
1ealous-that's all. Hes sure that any
Intelligent, kind man can fit a woman
into his environment, or vice versa.
And he wants me TO agree with him,
i won't, Holman. ] think you're
n
purse ont Of sow's ear. I'm not
saying that you way Of living is any
better than Flossie's. Much valuable
service has been done for the world BY
people who laughed at slapstick com
edy, and didn't read Ibsen. Maybe
Flossie's the salt Of the earth and
you're only the paper dolly. But |
IT'S CINCH YOUR TWO PLANES
DO NOT MATCH. You'll never make
her like your books or understand your
bookish talk. She'll never make YOU
like her slaDstick or cease to shuddef
at her ideas of interior decoration.
Your friends will bore her TO tears.
Her friends will drive you to near
beer.
+ Won't love work the miracle? But
that's just the point-you haven't /
enough love TO work the miracle. Love
isn't merely an emotional reaction
love is the shared delight Of books or
comic strips. If you can't share the
delight in the things that make life /
for both Of you, your love will soon
wear thin.
But can't you train her? For the
1uvya Mike, Holly. use the good old |
bean WHY ASSUME THAT SHE |
WANTS OR NEEDS TO BE TRAIN
EDi Do you think that she can train
YOUl Or that YOU need to be train. |
ed? Then why try to wish training |
on her?
Copyright 1926 King Features Syn, Inc. |