The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-21
HAL
BOYLE
SAYS
By Hal BOYLE

women get more things done than
men is that they know better how
to make fuel of themselves.
There is no fuel like an old fuel,
and the oldest and best fuel isn't
wood, coal or oil. It is anger
plain old inner anger.
Notice how a woman operates.
If she has distasteful job to do,
the first thing she does is get all
steamed up about it. Let US sup
pose the chore her conscience tells
her she should be doing is her
Semi-annual housekeeping. A man
faced with this task says, 81 ought
to tidy up this joint, and I will,
one of these days, but I feel awful
tired today" And he doesn't get
around to Shoveling out the debris
until it threatens to smother him.
But a woman says, II hate the
way this place looks" She is
angry at it, the anger gives her
energy, and soon the dust and fur
niture are flying. BY the time her
anger 10 worn out, she can col
lapse on a spick-and-span couch
In house that is shiny bright.
That is why men are secretly
afraid Of women--because of the
power of anger they have. Few
obstacles can stand before the
flaming energy of a wrathful lady
ct peak cry.
A wise man, however, can exer-
else some influence over a woman
if he cunningly learns to channel
her ire In the right direction. In
stead of coaxing her to do some
thing he wants, he might find it
better to make her SO mad she
can't help doing 1t In spite of her
self.
A friend of mine worked this
ruse successfully in getting his
wife to pack her suit case in time
to catch a train for their vacation
trip.
He pulled out his watch and
pleaded. She dawdled. He begged.
pointed at it. She vide d
She yawned. Finally, he picked UP
one of her favorite dresses and
said:
'Well, l forbid you to take this
along. 1t makes you look like
Queen Victoria on a picnic"
"Oh, it does?" she snarled. "I'n
wear what I want to, smarty!"
In a tempestuous burst of ener-
gy, she packed the suitcase,
snapped ii shut. They caught the.
train.
Gas a matter Of fact, she was so
angry she wouldn't speak to me
for a week-but is that altogether
bad?" recalled the husband, But
l learned lesson: If you want
to get. wife anywhere on time,
first get her mad. Ruffle her
feathers, then smooth them later"
That is sound psychology, up to
a point. Of course some wives,
when they get mad, just 60 into
another room and lock the door.
No rule works with all of them.
And, of course, it usually works
the other way. A woman uses her
anger to whammy man into obey.
ing her whim. Many a fellow is
prodded into success in life only
because of the long slow burn of
his wife over the fact that the
husband next door is getting ahead
faster. Her wrath feeds his will,
and he rises in the world on bor-
rowed fuel.
There is another inner fuel, as
old as anger. II is called fear.
Anger is a fighting fuel, fear is
the fuel for running away. You
need both to live.
l may be a traitor to my sex,
but 1t seems to me that women
keep these two fuels In better bal
ance than men. They are less like
" to be overwhelmed by either.
They know better when to be an
yrily brave, when to be cautiously
lfraid.
But, man or woman, nobody ever
became a star in the human race
until he learned how to make the
right kind of fuel Of himself.