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Show Her Opinion of iflen. She was a slight delicate little woman wo-man with a determined, fear-nothing look on her youthful face. Her jacket was unfastened, her bang tossed back in a careless manner, and altogether there was a brisk, breezy look of the advanced woman about the slim little body. "I've been a business woman for three years," she said, decidedly, "and have invariably found men in every way courteous and polite to me. The great mistake the independent woman wo-man makes in her relations with men is in letting them see that she is independent inde-pendent Now, when I am with men I am the most helpless, clinging creature crea-ture on the footstool, and they are always al-ways lovely to me. Men don't like smart, clever women half so well as gentle, timid creatures that appeal to their senses of chivalry, and the nineteenth nine-teenth century man has as much of it as a mediaeval knight if you only know how to And it Now, when I was first married and my husband asked me if I was afraid to stay at home in the evening, even-ing, I almost laughed, for I really thought nothing at all of going from Staten Island to Yonkers after dinner on business; but I managed to keep my face very serious, while I told him that I was a perfect coward, that the dreadful dread-ful shivers ran down my back every time I heard a little noise when I was alone. Result: He always stays in every evening, and there isn't a queen on the globe that has as nice a time as I do after the dinner is over. Don't be too smart is my advice to women, or, if you can't help being clever and capable capa-ble never lot the man you love know you are able to pick up your own handkerchief hand-kerchief when you drop it if you want to be treated like a princess royal 11 your life. , |