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Show Can This Be True? Look at the ridiculous way in which a man takes for granted that a woman will be interested in-terested in his sayings and doings. If his wife has a long story to tell him she is rilled with misgivings lest it, may tiro him. She leaves out many little picturesque touches, that she mny not take up his time, and, even on the hand-gallop, she has not arrived w'thin call of her conclusion when ho asks with contusing directness: direct-ness: "Well, how did it turn out?" But the man has never a mugiving that be will be hurried, or that life has anything better to ofler than liateniug to him. He begins Lis story at its earliest morning Bages and continues con-tinues it leisurely to its cloie, or, if it is rapid, he gives it rapid transit, but he never omits anything ou his wile's account. He tells what he eaid and what the other man said, and what ha would have s.ud had tha other man said what he might have said. And tho worst of it is the fatal poii.t is that his conSJenco is justified. The woman is interested. The man's talk tfkkes her out of hsr own into a larger lite, and she not otry tolerates but enjy it ; and whsi are you goiny todo auout it? Gail HA:r.i.ton. |