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Show TWO WOMEN JHE GOOD WOMAN saved her CJ husband's money and kept his house clean. She was a competent com-petent cook and baked all her own tread. The Good Woman, also made her own clothes, and wore them, too, which was -worse. In addition she did all the sewing for her three little girls. The Good Woman went to church every Sunday and served on the Ladies' Guild. She worked for prohibition prohi-bition and the suffrage and gave part of her allowance away in charity. The Good Woman, belonged to the Red Cross Society, spent one afternoon after-noon a week rolling bandages, and interminably in-terminably knit ugly gray socks for the soldiers. The Good Woman was rather pretty and she kept her face as clean as faoap and water could make it, for good women do not use cosmetics. Neither did bhe wave her straight, fair hair, but twisted it into a coil on her neck. The Good Woman was not frivolous. The Good Woman always did her duty and nobody liked her, not even her husband and children, for the Good Woman's heart was full of malice and she never said a kind word about anyone. The Good Woman was jealous of her husband, severe with her children and there was no sympathy in her. The Good Woman was stingy, and selfish, and resentful; quick to anger and slow of forgiveness. The Good Woman Avas suspicious of nil her friends, and her tongue was heavy with gossip. The Good Woman's heart was full of hate. The Bad Woman was divorced from her husband and lived alone in an untidy flat amidst a sprawl of books and a clutter of silly littlo pretty things. She would go without food rather than cook a meal and was too lazy to mend her own clothes. The Bad Woman had no children, which was a good thing because she would have been sure to neglect them. The Bad Woman never went to church and she gave naughty littlo parties on Sunday evenings when everybody danced to the music of the Victrola. The Bad Woman drank cocktails, and smoked cigarettes. She never gave any money away, because she was always in debt herself, over struggling strug-gling to live down to her income. The Bad Woman patronized cabarets cabar-ets and dance halls and Italian table a'hotes. She shopped all day, buying things she couldn't afford, and liked to promenade the Avenue where she could see and bo seen. The Bad Woman was not a bit pretty, but she painted her checks, tortured her hair into the latest mode and made-up her eyes, for the Bad Woman was incurably trivial. The Bad Woman was always busy committing improprieties and everybody every-body liked her, even her women . friends, for the Bad Woman was full of kindness and she never said a mean thing about anybody. The Bad Woman was tender to her friends, gentle with all the rest of the world and there was no envy in her. Tho Bad Woman was generous, good-natured, swift of temper and just as quick to acknowledge herself in tho wrong. The Bad Woman was fond of children, chil-dren, and dogs, and horses, and flowers, flow-ers, and music. She joyed in flaunting flaunt-ing sunsets, moon-white nights. The Bad Woman was unselfish, and Phe never talked scandal. The Bad Woman's heart was full of love. The Recording Angel in Town Topics. |
