Evening star., 1936-03-31
Majority are Rejected
AS Too Poisonous for
Wonan's Page Readers
Columnist Fights to Remain Incorruptible
at Risk of Proving Traitor to His
Heavily Burdened Sex

, is pretty hard put to find answers
which will satisfy the author of the
suggestion and himself.
THE only wifely suspicious with
which he is familiar always have
impressed him as pretty darned ac-
curate; so accurate, in fact, that one
can only hope they 60 on being mere
suspicious. One says as much. but
the ideas author remains uncon-
vinced. So does the chap who pro-
poses a piece on the way women spend
their husbands money. You can't
tell him there are two sides to that
question. There's only one. You are
double-distilled inbecile, a traitor
to your sex. and several things that
look terrible even in asterisks for
failing to write column about it,
Along about this time, with four
more days to remain on the woman's
page, the male guest columnist begins
to wonder how the world will seem
next week without a friend left in it.
and full Of males who won't talk, eh?
Not all the suggestions for columns.
of course, come from men who would
have the ghostly guest on the woman's
page write threatening notes to their
wives and sWeethearts. Occasionally
one comes along who would have one
turn the column into a collective
love letter.
Par example tthe sissy. there is
the case Of the young man who thinks
it would be helpful to have column
! pointing out the virtues of newspaper
! men as husbands. He is inclined to
be in love with girl whose idea of
newspaper men has been acquired from
movies which depict reporters and
editors as brilliant souls, but given
to variety of domestic delinquencies.
He is pretty sure a piece telling the
truth on the subject would be help
full to the course of his true love.
What are the virtues of news
paper-man husbands?" one asks him.
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LIE DOES not know, so one is forced
to say mo" to still another sug-
gestion for a column.
Well" he protested. 'you are a
newspaper man and a husband. You
ought to know"
II do," he had to be told, that's
why we had best drop the subject"
1t dropped-kerplunk!
Then there was the man who
thought a column about women's hats
would be pretty crushing thing.
But what is man to say about
women's hats?" he is asked.
"Say they're terrible" he suggests.
But that takes only two words,
and a two-word column wouldn't be
doing ones duty
An expression of contempt marred
his heretofore poker face.
I'll be glad" he said, when the
woman's editor comes back"
so shall We" we sobbed.
OF THE suggestions which have
~ been offered so far, one stands
out like a movie actress ankles. 1t
came from a woman, who writes:
why don't you do a column on
how to hold a husband? 1t is not
that such columns never have been
done before Previous contributions
on the subject, however, have come
from movie stars and other conspicu-
Gus characters whose conspicuousness
is due in no small part to the fact
they are hard to hold as husbands.
The truth is that the average
woman does not marry movie actor.
On the contrary, she becomes domes-
tically embroiled with completely
unglamorous creature who, for tran
scendent economic reasons, she finds
it desirable to hold.
LAS such a man somebody's been
talking or the lady is taking the illus
tration in this column too seriously)
it strikes me that you should be able
to write something of practical value
to the wives of such creatures.
You sound, in fact. precisely like
the kind of person who would be an
authority on how to hold the average
husband"
1t is an awful thought, but one has
a responsibility to ones public; a |
remnant, one can only hope, of the |
public which the woman's editor left |
behind her.