Show Evening Evening- Chit Chit-Chai BY RUTH EUTH CAMEROS' CAMEROS CAMERON CAMERO CAMERONS I lit littie little lit lit- ago gave o you ou a S S' tie tle talk lalk on the thc sympathy that Is h Isso Isso so exaggerated and misapplied that It deserves to be classed c with the lie vices rather than the virtues I spoke of ot the sympathy that lates petitions to get set th tha dangerous degenerate de do- generate set free from restraint the sympathy that is unwilling to kill Im the harmful worm tho the s sympathy that weakly weak weal ly Iy condones a a. fault in a child rather than In by reproof t tn In n ft I I I But with i all pe this speaking kl i I Ci find nd that I I left lect out one very important brand of false s sympathy A correspondent calls ahls my attention to the omission and Im I'm much obliged I refer to the tho kind that the unmarried man or woman gives to the tho married person person per per- peri i son of the opposite sex who is Inclined to feel feci that he be or she is unhappily mar mar- i ned ried mar mar-j If Jr this kind of ot s sympathy could be Uc nipped In the bud I think there would be bea bea i a a. noticeable falling off in the divorce rate Take Talc for instance the tile case of the theman man man that's that's the more common I think For sometime he has felt a hazy feeling of ot dissatisfaction with the way things are going at home 1 lie VITO Ie feels that his wife is not the comrade comrado to him that she used to be She doesn't tal take e the Interest Interest Inter Inter- est in his hia work worl that she used to She doesn't ever go about aboul with him him him-a a piece I of selfishness on her part that he might mi-ht understand better If it he cared to I ber bel that three children and no flO nursery maid dont don't make malee going about a particularly particularly larl jo joyful rul or easy process Now this is a bad state of mind but If the man who has it is left alone In nine cases out of ten he lie will wm probably get over it vet very comfortably in due time But he isn't left alone For here the girl with the sympathetic sympathetic disposition appears Perhaps she Is someone ho he meets t so so- so clan clan- daily Perhaps she is his stenographer apher Anyway An she is someone he sees often enough for him to get into the habit of ot telling Tier things s. s Th t Isn't so bad but soon his wife's discrepancies gradually gradually radu- radu ally come to b be included in these conn con con- n Xo Now is the time that a pretty girl sirl irl with any common sense would know that It was as up to her to firmly lead the talk tall to other subjects subject or better still sun astonIsh astonIsh astonish aston aston- ish the man by tellIng him that like as not he is chiefly to blame But this girl irl has a R sympathy swellIng swellIng swell swell- Ing where her bump of common sense ou ought ht to be She gently sympathizes w wIth wih th the theman theman i man for his failure to find a comrade comrad in his wife she wife she cleverly pities him hm for I his misfortune on bein being yoked ol ed to so in inferior interior in- in a mate V And that shortly haz hazy Idea that a a. tie of the romance h has s gone Jone out of the Inte Intercourse course bet between een him and hi his wife becomes a fixed conviction that he is i cruelly and misunderstood and that home is on the high road toward our oUI great American America evil And its it's on one good bl big bit the fault of that girls girl's sympathy Of or the 1 man WAS al at fault 11 in tt first t place t to sp speak k disparagingly g nii Or of his wife wite to another woman But Rut that doesn't excuse the th girl girt O 01 make her sympathy any less disgusting dis dis- dis- dis gu gusting u sUng ling Te Yes Tes on the whole T 1 think that kind of sv v has hal a ris richt ht to hold up its head th ih v v of f r I th 11 p Ikno ledged vices t |