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time over breakfast; for the man Of
the house this meal must be on the
stroke Of eight, hot, prompt, accom-
panied by his letters and his paper.
Why do girls redden their lips
and henna their hair and tip their
finger nails with scarlet enamel?
Because MEN LIKE IT.
Men don't marry the sweet, seri-
Gus girls who are interested in
books, and flowers and their sisters
babies. They flock about the youth
full idiots who babble about jazz
and permanent divorces. Many
times tho youthful idiots could
really talk sense, have really aver
age minds. But they know that
men are not interested in sense, and
in minds.
HER WAYS IRRITATE HIM
AFTER marriage, having picked
the least suitable mate in the world,
the man wants her suddenly to be-
come entirely changed. Her cigar
cites and short skirts and dancing
and rouge worry him terribly now.
He suffers agonies of jealousy. Her
absorption in dress and amusement,
the casually cheerful way that she
charges a forty-five-dollar hat to
his account, her interest in other
admirers, frighten and anger him.
His income bein; one hundred
dollars a week, they are paying one
hundred and forty-five dollars
monthly for five attractive modern
rooms, paying the maid sixty-five
dollars, and keeping the big car.
Doris insists that without a maid
and a car one is not living at all,
and Doris, when one takes the
standards and habits of her frieD',J
into consideration, is right.
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ture, with a detestation of children
or home ties-and then they are
ready to blame her for being sell
fish, undomestic and extravagant!
When she says, "0h, let's not.
Let's have one lovely Sunday with
just the kids. I'll make some
sandwiches" Jim looks at her in
dark resentment.
al thought 1 told you Billy just
telephoned about going up to the
Yellow Lion for lunch"
"Yes, but dearest, that's a hun
dred miles, and it means so much
speeding and drinking and noise.
And then we'll 90 somewhere TO
dinner, and get to playing poker,
or dancing. And the baby's so
sweet now, he'd just adore having
us here"
"You don't have to go If you
don't want to, you know"
Mary looks at him a minute Sc
riously, a long minute. Then:
"But of course I'll go!" she says
gaily. That dangerous old sweet
heart of Jim's, a grass-widow now,
will be on the trip, and all the
widely-laughing, recklessly-talking
crowd. She dare not refuse to go.
Jim looks pleased. New dress
come home? Wear it. You'll be
the prettiest woman there" he says.
And off they go, for the noisy,
extravagant, exhausting day. And IL
in a few years there is trouble, as,
in a few years, there usually Is
trouble, Jim says;
Il did everything fer her. She
went right on with her old crowd.
and had everything she wanted!v
But did she really want Il, you
American husbands2 Didn't she
perhaps want you, and her chill
dren, and her homer
Did you give her THOSEi
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cut 20 per cent off their sermons
and refund marriage fees in case of
divorce?
No matter how much a surgeon
charges, it's always a cut price.
Sometimes we wonder what kind
OF language truck drivers use when
they are at home.
There is safety in numbers, but
not when it comes to taxicabs and
microbes.
Money is firm, according to Wall
Street. Firm isn't the word; it's
obstinate.
No one is ever accused Of carry
ing water on both hips.
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and rouging and smoking and
gambling.
And that is the fault of the
American man, as a husband. He
has no imagination, he has no
adaptability, he has no preconceivcd
ideas about the dignity and beauty
of marriage. He merely has an
ideal of more business-more mon
ey-makingL
MAN is RESPONSIBLE.
He actually thinks that all the
troubles of married life could be
cured by more money. Now doesn't
he?
That marriage is a new and deli
cate enterprise, involving his mind,
his character, his soul, never oc-
ours to him. That a husband has
sacred responsibilities, that father
hood is at once an inestimablo
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After Marriage, Having Picked the
Least Suitable Mate in the World,
Man Wants Her to Change

school that is really a school of
snobbery, and a racing car that
means a racing morality.
What they WANT is Dad and
Mother, help with lessons, duties
happily shared on Saturday morn
ings, and a basket lunch carried
every Sunday into the hills. They
WANT to have their questions an
swered; they WANT the stories of
Dads boyhood; they want advice
about that terrible and momentous
crisis at school.
And they only know Mother as
an anxious, rushed woman Of whom
everyone says that she looks ten
years younger than she is, and Dad
as a nervous man who yells at them
to keep quiet.
"If a man marrieS one of the
modern girls" a man said to me
the other day, what chance do
you suppose he has of finding a
wife who loves books and walks
and children and a garden? She
wants jazz, hipflasks, cigarettes,
tea-dances, high-powered cars"
Well, if she does, don't marry
her. Find a woman who wants
something finer. Find a girl who
has the courage to be little shah
by, who has the character to carry
a volume of Carlyle or Emerson
under her arm.
FALSE IDEALS.
But honestly, 1 don't think the
flappiest flapper that ever rolled
her socks, or left a streak of paint
and powder across mans black
coat after a dance, is as bad as
are some Of our young men.
They'll marry her, and spoil her,
and ruin her youth and her life
with a false ideal of happiness,
with a false standard of expendi-
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Said By a Cynic
An INCH can make a wonder
"A full difference when IL comes 10

A INCH can make a wonder
IA full difference when it comes to
the length of a nose. -
.
A fence around ball park is as
strong as its smallest knothole.
A congressman who wants to cite
a concrete example doesn't have to
go very far to find one.
The Chinese are such an intelli-
gent race that it is hard to under
stand why they invented chop sucy
instead of something to eat.
The only thing the BARRIERS don't
charge for nowadays is the soap
they leave in your cars.
II the stores can cut 20 per cent
off their prices, why can't preachers
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generations of her forebears to live
for the man, to sacrifice every
thing for the man, races behind
him in a mad effort to keep up with
his unnatural demands.
She MUST dress, she MUST en-
terrain, she MUST keep on the go
Jim gets furious if she looks shah
by, or pleads that the care of house
or children demands her.
The minute her beauty, her
charm, her freshness fail him, she
has good reason to fear that he will
begin looking about him for a pref
tier and younger woman.
Thousands of young married
couples think that the ideal mar
riage is one that permits them to
live EXACTLY LIKE IRE
SPONSIBLE YOUNGSTERS
ONCE MORE.
1t is as if someone who had
been raised in the poultry business
should suddenly decide to 90 into
architecture, and insist upon buy
ing bags of grain and putting up
roots until the end of time.
Nothing makes Jim so WILD
as my saying that the children need
me-" Nothing infuriates Don like
seeing me in an old dress, no mat
ter how pretty or smart it isl"
the wives say indulgently.
And Jim and Don, never dream
ing that they are killing their own
souls in the process, slave on in
the dreary downtown streets day
and night, frantic to make more
money for trips and theater tickets
and new frocks.
TOTS WANT ATTENTION.
They stagger home exhausted and
cross. They start out in the early
morning jaded and headachy. And
now and then they get Buster or
Mimsie on their knees, and push
the hair back from the innocent
fresh little foreheads, and say visit
fully:
Dads doing all this for you,
kids. You've got to have the best
there is :"
So Buster and bIimsie have q
governess they hate, q dancing
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-13
Today Woman Is Less Domestic Than
Before and in 1915 She Will
Be Less Domestic
By ARNOLD BENNETT

TO take the exterior first, see
no reason whatever for antici-
pating that within the next twen-
ty years there will be any change
IN woman's attitude towards per.
sonal adornment. II there is to be
change, it will be that in the
future she will spend still more of
her time and her brains and still
more Of her mans money (or her
own) in that great and praise
worthy enterprise than she docs
even today. 1 say "praiseworthy"
because ! agree with woman in
this, that one of her first duties
is to look as nice as she can, and
nicer if possible. seriously re-
gard the spectacle of an attractive
woman well turned out as perhaps
the, finest sight that life offers to
the eye. Mote: All women are
attractive).
That this opinion holds general
ly is clear from the ovcr-increasins
public Importance Of the mighty
cult of frocks. Compare the size
Of the big shops of twenty years
ago with the size of the big shops
Of today, and their chief lure is al
ways feminine attire. Compare
the newspapers of twenty years
ago with the newspapers of today,
in the matter of woman's outstand-
ing interest. Frocks and what is
beneath them and below them and
above them and on them, are not
merely an important item in popu.
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The Women of Twenty Years Hence Will Still Need Protect

ideas. 1t means that they will be
more interesting to themselves and
TO men. II means that their lives
will be brighter. II means that the
nervous strain upon them which is
especially evident in small house
holds, and which is responsible for
so much Of the semi.hysteria sup
posed to be peculiarly feminine, will
be greatly saved. Hence, / antici-
pate that the woman Of 1915 will be
appreciably more normal" than her
forerunners.
In the matter of the everlasting
sex.controversy l foresee a troubled
period between now and 1915.
Woman is in a transition stage;
which implies that man also is in
n transition stage. Woman has won
the franchise in a sense very much
wider than the mere political sense
of the word. All manner Of things
are permitted TO her which in the
immediate past'were not permitted
to her. Add to this that she is fall
ing more and more into the useful
habit Of earning her own living,
and you must admit that she has
something to be justly proud of in
the way Of achievement, and you
cannot deny that in efficiency,
knowledge, breadth of mind and gen.
eral interestingness she is the SUI
perior Of her predecessors. The
Oriental ideal Of womanhood, still
rife even towards the end of the
nineteenth century in Britain, has
apparently passed; the change is
doubtless for the better and we
ought all to rejoice nightly in it.
ASKING TOO MUCH.
A large number of decent men,
however, are not quite happy about
1t. They are privately of opinion
that woman of late has been getting
a bit above herself. ! have had men
say to me: young women are I'M
possible in these days" What my
answer was to this terrible state
ment l shall not disclose.
The argument is that the Oriental
idea has not wholly passed, and
that woman herself clings to just
as much Of it as is to her advan-
tage. That is to say, she demands
perfect freedom, but at the same
time she demands the old protection.
Wherein she is asking too much and
fighting against immutable laws.
WILL ADJUST HERSELF.
The situation can be symbolizcd
thus: A man earns money and
takes n woman out for the evening.
He pays. She is fetched from home;
she receives constant Difference
she is restored to her home latter
which the man has TO go home him
self. If she insists on ordering
the dinner or supper, so deciding
how much the man shall spend,
and on staying as late as she thinks
she will, so endangering the mans
earning capacity for the next day,
she is getting a bit above herself.
Many men hold that many women
are more inclined to treat their
entire relations with men on the
lines of an evening out.
Such is the argument. DisSatis-
faction exists, and patience is need
ed. Anyhow, these things can be
prophesied with assurance for 1915.
First, woman will then still be the
weaker, and will be in need of pro-
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things, such as commonsense an:
force of individuality, being approx
imately equal. Third, woman, given
time, will adjust herself accurate
ly to the new conditions.
Copyright, 1925, by Arnold
Bennett).
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There Is No Indication Woman's Inter.
est in Love and Marriage is
on the Decline

lection and compassion which man
will give. Second, there can be no
responsibility without power, and in
cases of difference of opinion the
person who is responsible (which
really means financially RESPONSE
ble) will decide the issue, other
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-13
Little Germs

I AIDES handkerchiefs now have
~ pockets. The brain reels at the
thought of smaller handkcrchiefs in
these pockets with pockets contain
ing handkerchiefs which have pock-
cts. --...
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disease common to both sexes, and,
about as dangerous as cold,"
Strong peppermint lozenges or a
raw onion will make the symptoms
disappear in either complaint.
A woman is as true as steel-but
the steel is sometimes highly tenn
percd.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-13
Women Bob Their Heads and Shorten
Their Skirts and Read Dull
Articles for Men
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

WYE have heard a good deal, in
w the last few years, of tho
faults of ourselves - American
women. We. arc extravagant and
idle and shallow and spoiled and
childless and all the rest Of it; we
have done those things we ought
not to have done, and left undone
those things we ought to have done,
and so on.
Our husbands and fathers have
been represented as latter-day mar
tyrs, enduring everything in patient
silence, paying bills and signing
checks, and expecting no reward.
And yet there is some truth in
the old proverb that the woman
makes the marriagc-but the man
makes the woman. We women are
only trying to be what we think
the men WANT us to be, after all;
almost every woman in the world
is dressing, talking, acting in the
secret Of acknowledged hope Of win
ming some mans approval.
There are few exceptions - in
converts and Old Ladies' Homes.
But ninety-nine out Of every hun
dred women are interested in men
fathers, brothers, husbands, lovers.
employers. We bob our heads and
shorten our skirts and read political
articles and make rice puddings -
for men.
PLEASE THE MEN
When The man Of the house is
away, everything slumps comfort
ably, and we appreciate just how
much we change our lives to please
him. The women of the family like
a supper Of omelet and biscuit and
tea; the man has to have soup and
meat and n solid sweet. The ~
men like to loaf, to chat and waste
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-13

Motor cars are deceptive things,
says a writer. We know a man
who calls his car "Film Vamp" be-
cause it looks very fast but isn't.
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these intervalS we understand, were
constantly interrupted by the acts.
The centenary of photography
was celebrated this month. So
many photographers attended that
an actress had the distressing ex-
perience of having a secret wedding
which really was.
Flirting" says a writer, "is a
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-13

A man stated in court recently
that he has never spoken n hasty
word to his wife. Perhaps he slut
tiers.
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Bits of Fact and Fun

sounded by trained canaries in
clude; water gluck," "hollow
gluck," "bell gluck," "hollow rolls
"fluting" and others.
A good bird will begin on low
note, on which he will "roll" for
as long as half a minute, then rise
to a slightly high note and roll
again, running several notes up the
scale in that way and often fin
ishing with the deep fluty "juss-
jugg" of the nightingale.
Many persons believe that "thir-
teenr is an unlucky number. The
part that number played in the life
Of the great German composer,
Richard Wagner, should make them
at least doubtful of its malevol-
ence.
Wagner was born in 1918. The
numerals of the year Of his BERTH
added together make thirteen. he
was given the name of Richard.
the letters of which added to those
of his family name (Wagner), also
make thirteen. He finished his
opera, "The Flying Dutchman,"
on September Is, 1S41 and COM
pleted "Tannhauser" on April IL,
1874. The scoring of "Das Rhein-
gold" was concluded on May Is.
1854, and that of "Parsifal" on
January IS, 1882.
He was exiled from Germany for
thirteen years, and realized the fond
ambition Of giving one of his own
operas in Paris (Tanhauser) on
March 10, 1876. The first performs
ance of "The Ring" complete took
place at Bayreuth on August Ii.
1915.
Thirteen was the number Of COM
plete operas composed by him, and
his death occurred on February Is,
1888.
Professor Mangold Of Freiburs
makes announcement Of strange
musical sounds emanating from the
glass bowls under which he has been
keeping a collection of earthworms.
The sound, he say, is at times
like that of the membrane Of dry
leaf being tapped with tiny ham
mer. and is heard clearly twelve feet
away.
At other times it is a long-drawE
flute-like tone, which, although kept
Mt the same pitch, is marked by
rhythmical variation of beat.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-13

A critic describes a recent play
as only amusing at intervals. And
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-13

interest in love and marriage is de-
clining. / have never noticed It and
/ do not believe it. Interest in
love and marriage has probably not
increased, but it certainly has not
diminished. People marry later
than they did; that, however, is be-
case they are more prudent than
sforetime, and because the ability
OF women to keep themselves or
partly keep themselves, combined
with the growth Of personal free
dom, has abolished the old urgent
economic, utterly unromantic mo-
tive for marrying. Once it was
marriage or nothing for a woman.
Now, happily, there are alterna-
ties. But these alternatives do not
permanently weigh in the scale
against marriage.
Today, of course, there are women
obviously born for spinsterhood, but
in the past, too, there were women
obviously born for spinsterhood.
There will always be such women;
the difference in regard to them be-
tween today and yesterday is that
today they need not be as frus-
trate as they were yesterday; they
need not be Illustrate at all; which
is a very considerable improvement
in the organization of the social
etruoturo
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IT might very generally be sup
L posed that the luscious fruit we
know as Strawberries" obtained
its namo from some use Of straw
in connection with its culture, but
that is not the fact. Its name orig
inally was Strawberry" that title
being bestowed because Of the habit
its runners" have OF rambling a
considerable distance away from the
parent stalk. 1t has no connection
with STRAW"
Nor has 'gooseberry" any con-
nection with geese. The bush owes
its name to the long thorns, re-
sembling those OF gorse, and was
originally "gorseberry." The cram
berry should really be 'craneberry"
because of its long stem and
branches.
The names of most common fruits
are either contractions or corrup-
TONS" Damsons' for example, is
really a contraction of "plums from
Damascus" although that Syrian
city has little to do with them at the
present time. The so-called May
duke cherry, shouk be "Medoc'
cherry, from the part of France
where It was first grown.
Currants, Of course, are named
for their place of origin, the Greek
city of Corinth, and cherries COM
memorate Cerasus, a town in Asia
Minor. "Crabapple" has nothing to
do with the crab, but derives its
name from the latin word "acerbus,"
meaning harsh or sour. Orange"
and lemon" are both in their
origin, Arabic words, and the
grapefruit" which Of late years
has become so popular, has nothing
to do with grapes, but is believed
to have been named after grape
shot"
THE REPERTOIRE OF A
TRAINED CANARY.
A trained canary is known as a
"roller." 1t is n name he has
earned for himself because his song
is made up of a series of long roll
ing notes suggestive of the tremolo
notes of a flute or when moro softly
sounded, of boiling water.
Through song contests the notes
of the rollers have been identified
and sorted so perfectly that an ex-
pert listening to a bird can state the
strain" or breed from which the
bird originated. The names be-
slowed upon the various notes
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WANT TO PLEASE MEN

Tho woman's cult Of personal ap-
pearance is in itself proof OF her
undated interest in love and mar
riagc, and the modern growth Of the
Is cult is a proof that she has become
more efficient in the service Of n
profound instinct. That instinct il
the primary instinct-chief agent
for the furthcrance of natures mys-
terious plan-to attract and please
men.
In this matter a heresy has
sprung up during recent years, to
the effect that women do not dress
and adorn themselves to impress
men but to impress their fellow
women, and therefore the cult of
clothes has little or no bearing on
the relations of the sexes.
WOMAN VS.. WOMAN
I venture to dismiss this heresy
as ridiculous. True, that few men
understand the art Of dress as wo-
men do (though a few understand it
better)! True. that woman does
desire to impress other women by
her appearance! But why! The rea-
son is that woman sees in other wo-
men both competitors and expert
judges. She wants to impress them
because their approval and envy
constitute the proof that she has
succeeded in her effort to be attrac-
tive to men.
Women who from any cause are
deprived Of the regular companion
ship Of men do not trouble TO make
themselves attractive to each other.
And the advent of a male among
them, even one poor solitary male,
instantly arouses them to emulation
in feats of self-improvement.
This is notorious. 1t has always
been so; it is as much so today as
it ever was; and it will be the same
in 1915 and at all future dates until
nature fundamentally alters the
grand scheme of things.
Today woman is less domestic"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
Mexican Lunch
Is Given by
Mrs. Waltz

Mrs. Clemtine Waltz. assisted by
her mother. Mrs. J. b. Johnston, ell
tertained with Mexican luncheon
Thursday in her home in 1712 North
Pine street.
Mexican decorations and toy bal
looms gave the rooms festive air.
The guests were attired in gaily col.
ored costumes, the hostess wearing q
red satin Spanish dress. draped with
a handsome black shawl.
Games were played and prizes were
awarded TO Mrs. X. NJ. Lowther, Mrs.
{. i. Terry, Miss Annie Saccar AMI
Mrs. w. f. Haberman.
Unique Mexican place cards marked
covers for Mrs. John Weeks, Mrs.
Henry Duggan. Mrs. Clara Maxwell,
Mrs. j. NJ. Sherman. Mrs. c. A.
Boldt. Mrs. August Gchramm, Mrs. r.
NJ. Lowther. Mrs. J. NJ. Boon. Miss
Clara Schoenfield. Mrs. Beulah Gar.
vim. Miss Annie Saccar. Mrs. W. T.
Haberman. Mrs. c. F. Terry and Mrs.
T. A. Reynolds.
~ - -
The circles Of the Women's Auxil-
iaries Of the Beacon Hill Presy bterian
church will postpone their meeting
scheduled for Monday to November
80, so that all members of the circles
may attend the missionary luncheon Of
the First Presbyterian church at which
DIR. Goodell of New York will talk