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Show THE WIFE IS NO FOOL. There is a good deal of philisophy in tho view expressed by a pretty young woman in a Los Angeles jail a protty young woman who was arrosted in oompany with her employer, and who found with surprise that tho employer's em-ployer's wife had sworn out tho warrant. Sho had been a guest at tho homo. She had exerted herself to be agreeable to the wife. She had visited tho beachos, the restaurants ana places of respectable amusement in company with the wife. She thought she had fooled tho wife. And all the time tho wife was wise. Tho young woman and her employer had slipped away separately, leaving the wife at home, had rejoined each other at hotels and coming houses. They had congratulated each ., jther on tho case with which a wife could bo fooled. And now Iho pretty young woman sifts the counsel through tho bars of her cell: "Don't think the wife is a fooll" She goes farther, and tells young women in rural environment to stay there; that green fields and purling brooks have more beauty than city streets ever can possess; that tho charm of spring, tho calm of summer, the joy of autumn in the country far outshine the painted glories of tho town. And she adds that she is going back to the farm as soon as she gets out of jail. A good deal of that is wasted. A certain type of young woman insists on knowing at first hand. Experience is like measles. You have to have it yourself. Somobody's else measles doesn't make you immune; doesn't have any effect on you. .But there is no one so willing to learn as tho sophisticated. And maybe they will profit somewhat by the experience of this experienced girl. Gentleman who entertain divinities unknown un-known to their wives may lake a leaf from tho Los Angeles priso t's book of wisdom, and reflect re-flect that tho wife is wise. Curious that a man should bo willing to live with a fool. And yet, when ho plays his wife to believe his lies ho is playing hor to be a fool. Nothing less. Ho would guess in a minute if the tables wore turn ed, and sho should try to palm off a lover as a transient acquaintance from tho husband's visiting visit-ing list. But ho expects hor to be blind when ho trios the same game on hor. Similarly, young women, solicited lo something some-thing wrong by married men, should learn from this Los Angoles girl's disaster, that tho wife is the danger point, it is unsafe to put her in possession of any facts. And it is folly lo try to keep those facts from her. Sho knows. She knows a whole lot that sho doesn't see. And any married man and any married man's forbidden for-bidden charmer who indulge their tendencies in tho fool belief that the wife is blind are mistaken. Tho wife may not make trouble. She may, for any one of a hundred good reasons, see and say nothing. Sho may make her husband bolieve that she thinks him tho loyalest crealuro in clothes. It is a complimont ho ought to appreciate ap-preciate and roward with absolute fidelity tho sort ho exacts from her. But it isn't because be-cause she is blind. It isn't because she is a fool. Sho knows by an instinct older than applied electricity, moro soarching than light, moro sure than sound, moro roliablo than touch, moro far- I reaching than tho wireless, exactly what hor husband is doing and with whom. Don't lio to your wife. She's no fool Don't think that tho wife of tho man who cojoles you is crazy. She may have been when she married him, but she isn't now. |