Show si it roeana were weare men by W V D howell NE often hears the e pres slon in women oh it if I 1 were only a man I 1 shou d just lile to be a man onee I 1 would give anything to be a min in all honesty then or in as much honesty as she Is obliged to have Is not woman when 0 she Is think ng of living hei hot life over again thinking of livin a a man s life Is not she wishing to set in example to hei hns hus band who has shown himself so little able to set an example to her and for whose ne she Is believed oft enest to in dulfer amuat u hat seems a lain iam aspiration A very strange thing in legard to this Is that men are never heard sighing to be women the weakest the unhappiest th the most abject of men Is not known to td wish himself a iisman a and when he tons ideis living his life over again it Is certainly a man a life thit that he has in mind he ile is p perfectly willing to allow that a woman is much better 1 y matuie wiser by teaching teaching sn sweeter aeter loi ellei gentler and yet he does not isk to 0 o change lis his lot with heis if gewere he were a beggar and she a queen he be would not he is found saying in print and out of 1 it ahat that women have ly I 1 y far the safest easiest and pleasant est time of it but still somehow he does not envy them enough to offer changing places with them he will tell them as he hag has often told them th tatt it they aie the real rulers of the world and that in the sacred quality of dang hangliter liter wife and bothel they are the holiest beings on wirth he be bows down o 0 in worship of them but he leaves them their altar he does not think it any cicat thin thing 0 to be a man tut but he is not surprised that the objects of his idolatry sometimes declele themselves eager to descend from their high places and be bl men in the dust and grime of affairs the din and heat beat of battle and the TIU useless efforts to escape from the sti struggle of life ile understands that they wish to be men in order to show men whit what men ought to be and would be it thea were women and that they are not meaning permanently to be men and he 01 h es to their ignorance and inexperience whit he could not otherwise ac so count for lie ile fol i es it with a smile and possibly with a chuckle |