The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-25
Of
Husband and
Needed
Licentiousness Is Quite
Different; Verities
Never Change.
BY HELEN WELSHIMER
NEA Service stan Writer

INTELLIGENCE is the capacity to
l. know or understand. That is
the opinion of Daniel Webster. And
Daniel had way with the alphabet.
A man with a most excellent brain
remarked the other day that an in
telligent woman should feel no re-
sentiment toward another woman IL
the intelligent woman's husband
suddenly decided to turn his sixteen
cylinder power-yes, some motors
do run that high-On another wom-
an. That is, of course, if it was the
man who went hunting and the
woman who was caught.
Yes, my dear sir, we will admit
that the second woman may be as
blameleSs as Sir Galahad's white
horse. Maybe she didn't poach or
even peek.
Where Difference Lies
But the mans wife could no more
help experience a natural resent
ment against her than a fired secre-
tary could toward the girl who took
her place at the boss typewriter.
Intelligence and emotions do not
run the same gantlet. An emotion
is an excited state or feeling. No
one ever likes his successor because
he is his successor. Maybe he will,
in spite of it, after while. After a
very long while!
Funny, isn't it, how men can win
women and yet not understand
them?
There were three men who sat and
talked of love and life and women
and the glory of the harem, the
other night. Three men who were
sophisticated, experienced, success
full, respected and we'll informed.
Except about women. Three men
going on 40.
Men Agree in Views
The general concensus of opinion
was that the pursuit Of pleasure,
happiness and the other sex is a
mans recreation. A woman, being
annexed emotionally to a man, must
Straighten his tie, polish his steel
armor, and wish him luck when he
rides out to clank his spurs for some
other woman's diversion.
The three men who were going on
forty shook wise heads as they re-
fected that there are women, yea
verify, in your town and mine, who
still believe in the single standard.
Well, why not? After ell, you
can't ask a woman to cut off her
nose without administering some
kind of anaesthesia. The knights Of
the round table admitted that no
man ever desires to hurt woman,
but if a woman wants all the pop
corn in the bag instead of just part
of it, what can man do?
Classed as Chattel
A woman, the conversation re-
vealed-though the speakers them
selves did not know it, and polite
ness would have kept them silent
had they known-is a chattel who
should be happy to take what a
man offers and not complain be-
cause he understands division. She
must be an intellectual chattel-one
who makes no complaint, but who
understands that love may reach
limit.
Forty is an age at which some
wisdom should be garnered. By 40
every one should know that we are
human beings, first of all, before
we are men and women.
If a man expects fidelity and fair
play in a woman he must pay her III
the same coin. If he is going to
request reduced rates, he should
search for an inferior brand of de-
votion.
Two persons can not and should
not limit each others interests and
scope of activities. Two minds never
can become one. 1t would be bore
if they could. Freedom is as neces-
sary to marital happiness as sum
light to a garden, water to the grass.
But there is a difference between
freedom and RIGHTEOUSNESS. Eternal
verities such as decency and honor
and loyalty do not change.
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