Show RYr j f e r t and an A l lM fit fite fite e M M Me e ir r Letters e ens BY RUTH DEWEY EY GROVES Mom dearest Imagine people talking about anything so ao trivial as m my seeing Heinl Norman when ho he was here beta And they might remember that ho he was wu known to take a drink long before beCore I married mauled Alan and Atan-and and I 1 don dont don't t mean water Its It's It funny how v the tho world always alwa's wants wanta to blame blamo some Boma wom woman an for tor a mans man's skidding and make her pay If It they can But when its it's ta vice versa you dont don't see any mad rush to punish the manWell man Well that's an injustice that women women women wo wo- men will correct when they get the reins In n their own hands panda It t was wasa a pretty easy trick the men took when they put across tho the single standard idea It left them free to philander without obligation to pay the piper but the piper has always nya be been n a Shylock 1 I understand and so 80 the woman had to pay It Its It's a lot o of applesauce about A women omen being the custodians of ot morals That was Just a subtle touch to make us like mans man's one sided one sided rulo rule jot of conduct What Nhat he has failed to foresee though is fa that woman is fa going to demand that hat he measure up to the standard he has set for her When the time comes that an immoral man is as horribly disgraced as an immoral woman man may wish he ho hadn't built the fence tence quite so high Once on our side aide presuming wo we are all as na good as said we must be they'll get Just as full of at splinters as' as any of us ua 1 if they try to climb out By splinters I mean the nasty pricks Bricks of ot gossip Not that one hasto has hasto to o be immoral to get talked about but sut I do think it was mans man's putting us ua up on a pedestal to keep the world safe sate for the tired philanderer that started gossip in the first place If It there was anything wrong In my seeing Norman he is Just as guilty as I J am And it t was partly because I was afraid he would take up drinking as a vocation that I J didn't marry him after otter we were engaged But I suppose everyone everone is feeling eelIng sorry for tor him Woman Homan may be the biggest scandal seand 1 mongers but It was mans man's conventions that made us us' the targets targets targets tar tar- gets for each others other's barbed tongues Im I'm praying for the day when women will wilt all an realize this and stick together to shake shako of oft off the shackles they put on us In the meantime Im I'm the goat at home i It appe appears rs Happily it ft worries me not except for tor you Mom dear Darling love MARYE NEXT Mom on the single lingle standard Copyright 1928 NEA Service Inc |