| Show THE SAYINGS OF MRS SOLOMON By HELEN ROWLAND Copyright 1916 by The Press Publishing Publishing Publishing Publish Publish- ing Co The New York Tork Ev Evening ening World My daughter consider the reasons for which a woman woman a man for peradventure they are more lolous and foolish than those for which she him Behold I met a a. bride of ot Babylon who wh had wedded a woman charmer and I questioned her saying saying- Wherefore dost thou love thine husband husband husband hus hus- band 7 An And she straightaway answered me crying Behold I love Jove him for an hundred i reasons I Even because he hath curlIng curlIng curling curl- curl Ing hair an and the smile of Douglas Fairbanks Because he hath the shoulders of ot Apollo and the profile of Lou Because he clothes' clothes like unto a tailors tailor's model and hath the polish of a Fifth avenue floor walker Because he ho can fox trot like an angel talk sweet nothings like an Elinor Elnor Glynn hero order a dinner like a French Trench chef and hath bath more parlor stunts than a trick terrier Because he hath bath a way with women and not one of ot them can resist him Yea v verily because every w woman oman that upon him would filch him front froin me therefore do I prize him above all men men And 10 lo I questioned a second bride who had drawn a a. quince In the garden of love saying Wherefore dost thou adore the spouse of thy bosom And she replied without e c saying Behold I adore him for an hundred reasons reasons' Even because bE he is h human man manan an and 1 full of failings fallings and therefore can appreciate my perfections Because he is fat and hath not troubled to preserve his waistline Because he Is bald and to I use a hair hall tonic Because he a strong pipe and his trousers to bag at atthe atthe atthe the knees I Because he Is middle aged and pre pre- to sit at home and read his sporting paper rather than to take me forth to the dance hall halF and the gilded tn tavern verno I Because he is As embarrassed In the presence of women and not how to regale them with wilh flattery and tender nothings Because he cannot fox trot and hath no parlor tricks w wherewith herewith to shine in ballrooms and at tango teas Yea Tea because I am aware that no other woman will take him from me even as a gift and I shall dwell in peace and bask in the light of his adoration all the days of my life liCe For For verily verily better far the Ute devotion of a Caliban who out of oC thins thine hand only than the toleration of a moving picture hero that swallow- swallow eth flattery out of every womans woman's h hind nd Yea better be the apple of a homely home home- ly man mans man's s eye than the flower In a handsome handsome handsome hand hand- some man mans man's s button bulton hole For a little Egotist is a tiresome thing Selah |
