OCR Text |
Show WATCH OUT, LADIES, FOR 'CANAPE' GIRL If Jm oiii'Hii'ff The cocktail hour is the eanspe woman' Urn. By RL'TH MILLETT Every generation of women has its worrit. Thra alwty seams' to be something or someone standing between a woman and her peace of mind. Now it's the Campe Woman. She ha taken the place of th perfect secretary at public menace No. 1 in th minds of a goodly But ths wife really holde tha trump card. Moat husbands want to stay in lovs with ths womsn they choss for marriage. And most el them, given a peaceful, pleasant home, would rather be there af th end of a day than any place In th world. Lark Romaao When a husband becomes fall gams for a Canape woman, It's uau ally berause there Is something gon from his life that he wants bach again. That something Is romance He can't find it In a wife who hai number of city wive. George S Brooks. In ths Saturday Evening Post, has written a short story about her. Ths Canaps woman is a type. She goes in for buatnsss jln a way. And she has a one-room apartment and kitchenute. Very modern with splasher of lotus white here and there, and wall that don't match, following th latest trend. There are soft chairs, soft lights, and maybe an open fire. All the cosiness cosi-ness of a small. Intimate cocktail lounge. And the cocktail hour Is her time. On one pretext or another shs manages man-ages to havs soms woman's handsome hand-some husband stop by "about &:0, say." And there shs Is, In a well-cut well-cut afternoon drees, allready to play her role. In between several drinks and nu- stopped seeing him as an attractive attrac-tive man and so meet him at the door night after night with stringy hair, a shiny nose, and cheeks fluehed from bending over a hot stove, and who, Instead of llstsnlng to his day, tells him ths sndless details of hsrs. A woman grows more conscious of being a mother than a wife. We're not trying to excuse the husband or Justify ths existsnos of ths Canape woman, who Is. aftar all, only a by-product of ths modern freedom In marriage. Ws are Just trying to warn ths worried wife to play the Canape woman's gams. If she doean't, the Canape woman may become the orange-Julce-and-psncakea woman. merous canapes she gets In a few carefully selected compliments. The kind a man remembers with a plsased inward amils for several days. Thsre's nothing domestic In ths setup. The nearest she comae to cooking le whipping up a cheese spread and the talk is about "life." Wives feel It's unfair competition, because there is nothing they can object to, reasonably. And yet they do object. And they do worry. But how many of them, I wonder, really make an sffort to beat the Canape woman at her own game? How many wives set the stage for their husbands' homecomings sach svening? You can be certain the Canape woman spends tims and thought in creating a quiet, peaceful peace-ful background for herself. And she hss spent tims on herself, too be sure of that. It's trus shs has a nice setup. No household problems to snnoy her; no children to worry about; no husband hus-band to keep happy. |