Show I What Every very Woman woman Thinks Thinks i Bv By Helen Rowland I To love A philosopher has said Is to to admire with the heart Dear mo me There Thero are lots lota and lots of ot things that I admire With all ID my heart and all m my mind and all an my envy envy envy- But I dont don't LOVE them For Instance I admire the beautiful nerve of ot the tho woman who pushes Into the place In front of ot me In the lino line at the ticket office window I admire the B serene rEn ne audacity of ot theman tho the thoman thoman man who sits perfectly still while I hang onto a no strap In a street car car and and tries to flirt with mo rue over his newspaper news news- paper I admire the tIle delightful aplomb of ot the saleswoman earning earning- 20 O a a. week who acts pained and bored When hen I ask to seo see a frock Crock costing fuss Rss than a n hundred I admire tho the supreme self-assurance self of ot the tho little fat bald man who lounges about the restaurants And sizes up the women as though they had been sent up on approval I tho the colossal conceit of ot th the theman theman man who assumes that every pretty married woman Is unhappy And simply yearning for sentiment and consolation from consolation from HIM I admire the nerve and tho the vanity of a n. bachelor of 40 with no waistline or hair or income to mention Who Vho speaks of ot a spinster of ot 30 as pass passee eo And confesses himself willing to marry a n. perfect woman If It he could only find tind one I the glorious self compla r of tho the D man an who holds a cI cigar ar arIn in one ono hand and a n cocktail In the 0 other t ii Ci I While he discourses bitterly on the moral deterioration of ot tho the modern woI woman wo wo- man I admire tho the beautiful optimism of ot the tho woman oman who believes that the man I who she sho can Theda Bara from anI another another an an- other woman I Will be perfectly conS constant and deI devoted de tie- voted to HER I I admire the brave bravo assurance of ot the beauty parlor lady who promises mo mo me that she can make my complexion I look 1001 like satin Though her OWN looks like last years year's plush I I admire the nonchalant savoir faire Caire of or thc the debutante who ho scratches a aI match on her shoe and puffs putts her cigarette cig cig- I arette In tho the faces of tho the disapproving in ing dowagers and waiters walters I admire the tho cheek of the man who expects to marry a combination of ot I Venus Tenus Minerva and the tho Three Graces who ho will do his COOKING Yes and 1 even e admire th the tho Ingenuity Ingenuity Inge Inge- nulty and delightful inconsistency of a pacifists pacifist's arguments But above all I admire the blind supreme transcendent EGOTISM I Of the kaiser Verily YerBy as Caesar said All gall gaU is divided into three parts parts parts- And thc they are arc cheek cheel nerve neno and atul audacity au flu- Oh Lord send us all allA allA A little of each of them thom I I Copyright 1918 b by tho the Press Publishing Co tho the New York Evening E World I |