Evening star., 1925-11-22

crazy about your husband, but you
don't go around making wild state
ments about any man. 1t Is harder.
Of course. 70 be sure about single men,
They may look romantic and different
and quite without q flaw on the sur.
fsce. But just wait till these same
men get married and you have good
heart-to-heart talk with their wives.
Why, to see Roger Lane around
before he and Dulcie married, for in
stance. l would never have dreamed
that he would dip his toast in his
coffee.
The first time I ever saw him do it
was one morning before l was mar
rfed when I'd stayed all night with
Dulcie. Dulcie looked across the
breakfast table at him and then at
me.
THE first time 1 saw Roger do
that" she said. Il thought to myself,
Dip away while you're single and can,
Mr.. Roger. Dulcie sighed II
thought you could break a man Of any
habit you didn't like, in a day or So"
She sighed again. We've been mar
ried seven months, and just look at
him.
Roger guiltily stopped, but you
could tell he'd forget and do it again.
Being single at the time. I natural
ly thought that Dulcie just didn't
understand how to manage A man.
Mana ging a man a S / have learned
since I've been married myself. Is like
playing tennis. 1t looks easy till you
try it.
7 often think that that is why
widows are so fascinating. Not. as
IL commonly supposed, because they
understand how to handle men, but
because they have given up trying.
On your first husband | guess YOU are
bound to keep struggling as long as
YOU have breath of pep left. Having
put your hand to the plow. you hate
to turn back. But having once seen
what an almost hopeless job 1t is TO
make a man over to suit you abSo-
lutely, I doubt that many women
would have the heart TO start at all
on a second one. That is why a man.
meeting widow, sees the dullness of
hopeless resignation in her eye and
realizes at once that here is going
10 he a restful woman to get along
with.
But with your first husband. it is
strange how hope springs eternal in
the human breast. Mrs. Frank
Eirsted SAYS that every time Frank
unwraps a package in the living room
and leaves the paper and string right
in the middle of the floor, and then.
when he sees how bad it makes her
feel, promises solemnly never to for
get again. she can't seem to help be-
lieving him and thinking that that
fault is cured now, and what had she
better start on next.
WILLS worst fault is his terrible
tactlessness. l know, of course
that this is not a serious fault. like
drinking too much. In fact, bsfore
we were married. hardly thought 1t
s., Ill
strike me funny. Like the time when
he had Miss Prescott almost Ian led to
buy the Witherspoon place. In the
general conversation the subject of
ages came up, and she asked Will to
guess how old she was. To my amuse-
ment. I heard him guess 46. That was
lust the age Miss Prescott really was.
and when she decided not to buy the
WithersDoon place after all | tried to
explain to Will that his guessing she
was As might eas silly have been the
beginning Of the end.
But. great grief, abe used to 90 to
school with mother he said and
she certainly looks 46".'
The flowers that bloom in the
Spring, tra-la.'" sang, have moth
ing to Go with the CO Sc. If you'd
guessed 35, I'll BET two bits she'd have
bought the place"
But when you're narried to a man
things like that don't seem half 50
funny to you. It's Just as old Mr..
Long says, the only tine he can help
laughing to see mans feet fly out
from under him is when it's his own
feet. Before you're married to a man
his faults are his own. and you can
laugh at them If they strike you
funny; but once you're married to him
you feel as responsible for everything
he does wrong as though you did it
Yourself.
And it's so hard to cure men Of
anything" Dulcie sighed. Il believe
they secretly think their faults are
though If they paid too much atten-
ton to your ideas it would make them
sissified. ] got 50 provoked at Roger
the other day that / said. Well,
Roger, YOU needn't try 10 make me
believe that there's anything specially
virile and manly about dipping your
toast in your coffee.
It's perfectly true" Mrs. Frank
kirsted agreed. For all that. Frank
is always pleasant about 1t and
doesn't like to make me mad. I can
tell that way underneath he thinks
All regular guys throw their things
around and that, after all, tidying UP
room is woman's work.
7 had TO laugh at that. 1t was so eX-
sctlv like VIII. Whenever l Just
Jumped on him about some especially
stupid piece Of tactlessness. he would
look half guilty but the other half
virtuous, and insist that whatever he
said was so, and that ne was no
lounge lizard who could spend his
time thinking what kind of an i'm
preston he was going to make every
time he opened his mouth. 1t certain
" makes II lot harder when Your
rNtrgg' u fNJf t,n+ r,,st
faults are really manly, rugged vir-
tues.
There were times when l felt !
should just have to give up trying.
but of course YOU never really do
quite get used to it. I seemed to suffer
a s much each time he broke out as
though l weren't in a way prepared
for it. ! shall never forget the last
evening before Dulcie and l went up
to Minneapolis.
My hrother-in-law was going to the
Masonic convention and father said
that if ] wanted 10 go up and stay
with kathie while Elmer was away,
he would buy my ticket. The bank
was sending Roger to the bankers
state convention at the same time. so
Dulcie decided to go up to Minneapolis
with me and visit her aunt.
The night before we were TO leave,
T had the Curtises TO dinner. AS Mr..
Curtis is vice president of the new
Harvester Company. and they keep
maid and everything like that and
have always lived in Chicago natural
". as one OF Montrose's young ma
irons. l wanted TO put my best foot
forward for the whole town. so to
speak Wits father being president
of the Boost Montrose Club. Will was
naturally i'll sympathy with me on
this. and brought home two cigars
of a kird bp lpp,yS Nr Curtis