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Show MEN HAVfc "rUININY WATti" TOO. A. Woman, an Behalf of Her Sex, Asks Somt Unanswerable Questions. The little peculiarities of women are a fruitful topic with some masculine writers. They continually rush into print with such questions as: Why does a woman always want to know if hei hat is on straight? Why does she keet "you waiting 10 minutes after she's de claied she's all ready? Why does she do this, that and the other? Here's a counter coun-ter blast from a woman writer: Why docs a man always have lengthened and often profane interviews with his collar button? It looks like an inoffensive sort of an article to an outsider. Why doet he rush through his dressing and throw everything all over the room becausj he's in such a hurry he "knows he'l be Jate" and then spend a good fivt mintes filing and lighting his pipel Why does he never put together and fold up a newspaper? Why, when a pretty pret-ty girl praises another man's "charming manners, " does he say the girl is "soft?" Why does he declare that handsome and popular young actors are 'sticks?' ' Why can ;he never, by any possibility, find anything he is sent to look for in closet or drawer? Why is his headache or toothache so much worse than anybody else's' ever was? Why is it always hii liver that does not work instead of tha welsh rabbit and mince pie that hava worked? Why will he go out after a rain without overshoes and then preach about the vanity of women? Why does it rain: too hard to go to church, but not too hard to go to a dinner or theater or club on any succeeding stormy day! Why does he suppose, when he notes women's "funny ways, "that women are not at the same time noticing hit owii funny ways? New York Journal |