Show I Reflections of a Bachelor Girl II I By Helen Rowland Copyright 19 1918 s by the Press Publishing Co the Mie New York Evening World P Pshaw hawl As far as astonishment at their their o own n folly goes the B Bolshevik ls have nothing on the average bachelor who wakes up to find himself signing a marriage ml contract to pay pay Indemnity to somebody for life Ilfe Civilization h has done a lot hot to uplift men but anyone anone of them would die before he would admit that he is not to be bo as devilish as s he is supposed Some day soon noon in th the letter you get from over ther there there will be a scarlet poppy plucked from a roadside i r in France The little French Freni poppies do not know that tho the world is at war so they go right on blossoming Joyously Joyously joyously Joy joy- for soldiers' soldiers sweethearts 1 Who feels just like hike a girl again In in her little straight line dresses dress s short skirts and nd cute polk bonnet these days Ask Ma She knows While a a. husband is working overtime overtime overtime over over- time to give a woman everything on onearth onearth onearth earth she wants she is usually workIng working working work work- ing overtime trying trying- to pers persuade ade- ade herself herselt herself her her- self that she wants something in her life that he doesn't give l h her r. r When a woman rushes out of 01 the room and slams the thedoor door it Is in order to start a quarrel When a man does it i it Is in order to escape one After Atter the second bottle a sentimental man can manage to weep pathetically o er over the thought that his wife wont won't let him keep his toothbrush in the same glass with hers ers When a man cant can't think of ot any possible possible pos poe sible excuse for getting Out ut h he sits around expectantly all an evening and waits walts for Ills his wife to pin a medal on him for Cor being good The first thing a bride has to learn is that the distan distance distance from rom ta a m mans man s ns office e to to his home is always at least least t n I i r three times as long as the distance frem his home to his ils ls office Home should be a harbor not a ahouse ahouse ahouse house of detention and a II wife be an anchor not a a chain and ball Fortunately mo most t. t men mistake hone lone loneliness liness hiness for love before marriage and habit h for or happiness s afterward Some men think they are arc w worshiping the Lord when wIlen they are merely worshiping wor wor- the he others fancy lancy that they are ath atheists yet devoutly worship themselves |