The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30
Boy
AdUiSe.S
Girl
By George Antheil

stoned and bitter against
men, a wife and mother
comes to their defense in a
short but dramatic letter to
the column.
MY Dear Mr.. Antheil: Burn
ing the midnight oil, but only
to feed the Pickering light Of
my one-burner oil stove. I have
q lamp but no precious oil for
it. Only a wee bit for my tank
less stove. 1t is 11:15 p. m. I
have just finished washing and
ironing my child's one present.
able dress SO she can go to
school clean and fresh tomor-
row. My kind landlady loaned
me her newspaper so I could
read your column.
II have just finished read.
ing Susan Cynical's contribu-
ton. 1t awakened something in
me that could not be quoted. I
must try to convert her to the
fact there are MEN!
"Just wait, Susan, there may
be one lurking around the cor.
ner.
Waiting for
20 Years
Are you really so disguised
with men? Would anyone on a
lower level than a real man in
spire a woman to wait nearly 20
years, 20 long agonizing years of
poverty, unutterable longing,
fearful days and half-crazy
sleepless night for his return?
twenty-five years ago we
were married. Six years later he
was snatched away to die a liv-
ing death behind prison walls.
For almost two decades he
has carried his cross and mine,
and I have carried the same
burden. adopted a child a few
years ago to save my reason.
HE never forgets an ami.
versary Of any kind. He even re.
members the anniversary of our
first kiss. He is fine, clean and
chivalrous. I wait, watch, hope,
pray and trust.
eyes, my dear, there are men
gentlemen in every sense Of
the word, for I am the
70, 20 wife Of one."
A Man
Condemns Men
In the same mail, surprising
enough, we find a man con-
demning men. His letter would
carry more weight with me II
he had listed the faults of the
feminine world as well as those
of the male sex and then proved
his point that even though both
had faults, the men had a more
generous allowance of them.
Dear George: I congratulate
a Group of Disguised Girls for
their straightforward letter in
your column. Doesn't their let
ter put you to shame? Did you
ever realize that it is just as
easy for men to please the ladies
as to expect the ladies to do all
the pleasing? There Is only
one real man in a thousand
males, the others are as the
girls say they are.
"Who is it that pretends to
love a girl until she is in trouble
and then skipS? Who causes
wars? Who brought on the de-
preston all over the world?
Who treats women like animals d?
Who robs the people Of their
freedom? Who uses the sweat
ing system to make slaves Of
women?
These Are
Damaging Questions
"You talk of the women hav-
ing the right to vote. Who kept
them from voting for years?
Who are starving the unem-
ployed who are on relief? Who
make guns to destroy? Who
won't build decent MONIES 1oT
the people? Who marry decent
girls, then run around with
others? Who desert wives and
children?
For 20 years I have studied
both men and women. I have
found without doubt womer
are more intelligent, more hu
man and more civilized. This Il
from a 65-year old gentleman
who always considers a woman
a lady, for my mother and sis
tiers were such "W. B."
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