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"Thou Shalt Not Flirt"
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Mandate for Wedded Dalliance of Those Who Find
Matrimony Doll Leads to Disaster.
No. 6 The Man's Side The Husband Who Antag
onized His Wife by Attention to His Own
Mother Tells His Story.
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By VIRGINIA TKRHVNK VAN
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One of my fond dreams has N-en that
my wife and my mother and slaters
hould love one nnother. It haa never been
realised. On the contrary, my mother
ard my sisters have brtn the cause of
heart-breaking torublo between my wife
and myself.
Until after our marrlagts Helen phowcl
BO signs of a jealous disposition. Even
Slow she Is not jealous of any woman
except thaae that are In my own family.
She and they simply cannot understand
one another.
The first quarrel my wife and I ever
had was when she wanted to Rive a little
muslccJe In our home and did not name
my sisters among the young; people she
Das Inviting;.
"You have forgotten Mary and Anna."
I reminded her.
"No." she said. "I have not forgotten
thtm. Dut we cannot have thorn at every
affair we give."
"Why notT" I asked. "We have had
them at everything so far."
"Tea," Helen acknowledged, "I know
wo have and we cannct keep that up al
sre.ys. The longer we defer entertaining
without their assistance and presence, the
harder It will be to begin. We would have
to do so sooner or later, anyway."
"But they are always helpful." I argued.
"You have often said how nice they are
about advising you."
"I have not said they were 'nice' about
advising me," she corrected. "I have said
they often advise me."
"Well," I suggested after a moment's
thought, "suppose we do as you propose
and lepve the girls out of this affair
and ask mother and father Instead."
"That would never do," she explained,
"for this Is a young people's muslcale.
There are to be no elderly persons pres
ent." I felt very uncomfortable about the
matter and could or.ly hope thst my fam
ily would not hear of the function.
Hut a few dayo later when I stopped
In, as was my frequent custom, to see
my mother on my way home from busi
ness, she asked me bluntly 'how It hap
pened that we had given a young people's
pnrty and left my sisters out.
"They were surprised and hurt," she
remarked.
I had felt all along that Helen was
making a mistake, yet now I found my
self championing her cause and speaking
from her viewpoint.
"Why mother," I said, "you see we
know a good many people, and I do not
think that the girls ought to expect to
be Invited to every entertainment we
give."
"Why not?" I asked, Just as I had done
In my dispute with my wife.
"Well." I replied tamely. "Helen Is a
young housekeeper and naturally she
likes to run her own house unassisted
at least she likes to show that she can
do so. And if she has some of my people
on hand all the time, it looks a bit as If
he depended upon them for help and ad
vice, doesn't It?"
"I see," my mother said slowly. "Then
Helen resents our desire to help her.
The girls and I will try to be more care.
ful In the future. We meant only to be
kind."
That was the beginning of trouble I
knew that my people had, as my mother
sold, meant to be good to my wife, yet I
could not make Helen see th's. Little by
little the gulf between them grew wider.
I protested with both sides. I nppealed
affectionately to my sisters, but they
said loftily that they preferred not to
argue about the matter, that, of course,
I would take Helen's side.
Then, one day. I deckled to talk no more
of a painful subject and not mention
Helen to my family, nor my family to
Helen. I saw that for a while my wife
was relieved by this arrangement. And I
became uncomfortably aware that my
mother and sisters hnd bored her; that
she had social aspiration above theirs,
that as she would have put It ehe
wanted to live her own life. I also became
convinced that she thought I, too, was
drifting away from my own people.
I could not stand this and I forced
myself to say casually to Helen, one
evening, that I had stopped In to see
mother, as usual, on my way home from
the office.
"As usual!" Helen echoed. "You go
there Just as. often as you once did?
"Certainly," I replied with dignity. "I
go to see my mother at least twice a
week, , as 1 have always done and al
ways shall do."
"In spite of the fact that she snubs and
dislikes your wife?" Helen asked.
"It Is not her fault that there Is a
breach between you and her," I said.
"It is not of her making."
"Oh.." she exclaimed. "How can you
say such a thing.. Just because I showed
that I had a mind of my own, and would
not be directed and ruled by your mother
and sinters, they have let me severely
alone. And all this time, when I thought
you were on my side, you have been go
ing to see them. You, my husband, love
them so much better than you love me
that you stand for that kind of thing.."
"Helen.." I chided, "I love nobody
better than yon.."
"Then stop going to see your people.."
she demanded.
I said nothing, but went out of the
room and left her alone with her wrath.
Since then I have never again told her
when I have been to see my mother or
sisters. I know, and she knows that I
know she knows.
Yet the matter is never mentioned by
either of us. It stands between us like
wall a wall that can never be removed
because It Is built of a man's loyalty to
his own and of a wife's jealously of that
loyalty.
In-Shoots
If in the form of flannel cakes, chew
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Simple diet will swell man's pocketbook
even if It does not prolong his life.
The unkissed girl generally has a face
that no one wants to kiss, anyhow. .
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"The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The red deer to the wold.'
t nvo la a wild-bird bright of feather, va
grant of heart yours most when he Is free. Oh, "
jutu, if you knew! And knowing, If you could
take your knowledge bit by bit and pave your
-way with It! But though you have a magic talls
uan, wisdom, that makes colorful and Joyous
and content your road, you forget that you have
It at all and toss It Into the bushes; while you
stub your toe in the ruts and chuckholes and
the frozen rides In the trail.
And hero In the opening of the "Gypsy. Trail"
Is wlnclom deep and true; "The wild-bird to the
open sky !' Out of the golden cyo of the wild
bird never goes the wild light that longs an J
fights to be free. You may feet, and caress, and
whistle soft, and plead; but an inch of the open
door will send ihe heart under his soft breast
stirring, light the fire In his heart, and hey'
what are your soft persuasions, where is his
gratitude, the softness that has come Into bis
tameless heart for youT Nowhere, and forgot
ten! The blaze of the blue sky and the dream
of a soaring wing have burned out the memory.
Dehlnd gold bars be Is never yours for one
, lieath even! Kiss your hand to the bird on the
wing or swinging low on the conifer bough, give
Mm crumbs and a cheery whistle or two, and he
Is yours In the best and realest way. Dut, the
little girl longs to knit mittens for the chlck-a-dee
and hug him to death, and the big girl
clothes Love In dreams and binds him tight with
a thousand smothering ties. And lo! the chlck-a-deo
says, "I thank you, small human, but the
storm doesn't trouble me pee-deu-dce!" fnd
Love comes within reach, but looks away over
his shoulder for the open sky!
Remember this, youth and take your love
in his golden rage to the open moor and open the
door wide-wide! Back he will come to your
shoulder for your sweets if you give him the
whole world to play In! NELL BHINKLEY.
Ity POKOTIIY 1)1 X
This In the eighth commandment of
matrimony: Thou alialt not flirt with
other women. or roll thine orb
of the man with whom thou fox-trototh,
for Jealousy la
cruel as the crave.
' and the short cut
to fUio.
One of the fa
vorite kmuarmrntt
f both men and
women, who find
matrimony dull
and monotonous,
is to en ic a ire In
what they eall
harmleM flirtation.
Which Is aa If one
exploited an in
nocuous stick of
dynamite or ' a
frollcaome viper.
Now, the mar
ried ftrta are not
nocessaiily oon-
mestlclty. which robe married life of all
Its Illusions, strips from it its pink chif
fon, and leaves It bare and common
place. In hi heart a man may still think
his Matilda Jane a model of all the vir
tues, and the pattern of what a rood
wife and mother and housekeeper should
sclrnccleas V 1 1 -
Inlm. Neither are they always traitors.
or even really untrue to the partners of
their bosoms. They are merely bored.
They ar vlctlma to the cure of do
be. If he had to marry, tie would marry
her over Main.
Hut
Well, there Is no allure In making- love
to your own wife when ah llatens with
half her ear to your Impassioned vows
and the other ear and a half cocked to
hear the baby cry. There's no thrill In
sending; her favorite flowers to a woman
who would rather have the price to go
on a new pair of hoe a. There's no
clamor of romance In havlnr a little din
ner somewhere with the lady who haa
the legal right to face you aeroea the
table S65 morn Inn and evening a year.
And the woman who la bored with the
eternal roast beef and boiled potatoes of
matrimony, and whose palate criea out
for something with a little more pep and
ginger1 In It, Is tempted along the prim
rose path of flirtation by pretty much
the same Impulses as her ho band Is.
She, too, la a-hunitered for romance, and.
more than that, she Is beset by a devil
ish fear that torments her and will not
lot her rest.
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A trap baited with sunflower seeds Is
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Wash thero In soapsuds, made with good
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Hlack" stockings should never be
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Her husband has quit making- love to
her. He has ceased paving her compli
ments. He treats her with a little -ni
of her be I nx a woman as If she were a
feminine mummy of the time of the
Ptolemies. This raises a horrid r.isplolnn
In her breast. "Am I old and ugly al
ready? IX I no longer attract men?
Have I thrown away my bait cr lost It?"
she questions of her mirror.
Whatever the re anon of the flirtations
of married folks, however, there Is but
one end to them, and that la disaster.
Tou cannot play with the fires of pas
sion without getting burnt.
This Is especially true of women. A
woman's flirtation may not be ekln-leep
In sentiment. It may have been in
spired by the most fleeting Impulre of
vanity, just a whim to see if her eyes
had lost the goo-goo trick of her girl
hood. She may have merely written and
received a silly note or two or had a
cup of harmleas tea at a restaurant. Her
soul and her slate may be absolutely
clean, and In reality she may still hold
her husband as far above tho mnn she
Is flirting with as the stars are above
the earth,
' Nevertheless she Is running the risk of
wrecking her life and home. Thousands
of women have been damned for lust so
I'ttle. , She la miring the hem of her gar
ments, and there will not be lucking those
who will point out the stain and call her
husband's attention to it. And she can
never, never, never explain. And nobody
will ever, ever, even believe the truth.
I,oast of all will her husband believe It.
When a married woman flirts tt gener
ally ends In divorce for her. When a
married man flirts it doesn't end so often
In divorce, for neoesalty forces wives to
forgive things in their husbands that hus
bands do not have to forgive In their
wives; but It ends tn broken hearts, just
the same.
There la no safe flirtation in which mar
ried people can indulge. All the ways of
dalliance are closed to them, and they
stray ever the bars at their peril. There
fore, say to Cupid when he comes whis
pering In your ear, "Oet thee behind me,
Batan, for I partake no more of romance,
except of the well-known domestic brand
that la made at horns."
Thus shall you keep out of trouble and
safe within the fold, for this is the
eighth commandment of matrimony:
Thou i shalt not flirt with other women,
or roll thins orbs at the man with whom
thou foxtrotteth, for Jealousy la as cruel
as the grave, and the short cut to Iteno,
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