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Show AN EDITORIAL BY FLORENCE DAVIES i : 1 rOHItM I N l EuRTAINS. I "I have the kindest, most dutiful j hushand In the world, but how 1 wish j he Wdan't quite so set " How many thousands of women have mad,- that r. luctant admission ! about the failings of their men folks'!' "John Is good as ,gold and I don't ! MoT myself forget it.'' sayi Mrs. John, "but just once in a lifi time I do wish I he wpvld be willing to be a little so-, so-, ciable He never goes anywhent and he all but threatens to leac m vh- li company Is aim.uinced." John explains It a!i bv saying that home's good enough for him. And by home he means home with home folks and no more. "But." says the wife of one such man. "I don't intend to let riy so n make any other women as unhappy over so small a thing as I have been : I made. I'm going to teach them to like people, and to overcome their Inclination In-clination to reticence. "For that is all It Is." Mix. John explains. "It is just tha ho oaf never been made to n,lk" the rffort to mingle with people, an 1 the more put It off the harder It becmd until un-til he finally made a positive virtue of aloofness. "But that." oxidA'n Mrs. Jomi. "was all habit and so mv sons ar J going to form the habit of being &u-clally &u-clally alive before they g'-i set in; their ways. That was why Wednesday was company com-pany day, Every Wednesday It was understood under-stood that one of the boys should lnlte a guest home t Uine'neon. If John had his best frien 1 this week. BUI brought his favorite the next week. Once in a very onr, tiuo i: girl bj nome great luck, or perhaps to be accurate by the bestowal of fl j ;arge ami elegant apple, won lh coveted cov-eted Invitation, but the guora of t.n- gentler SOX were United for the Mos' part to tho teachers, who rather liked the honif v meal and the ch.it With an understanding school mother. "I don't make a bit of work of it." Mrr,. John explains, "I have to have something simple and nourishing for the boys anyhow. i.nJ their soup and baked apples and cocoa are just as vrood to the boys across the street as an eight course dinner would be. And in this way we larn to like people and pre get used to having them In our 'homes. As youngsters the U01 I have none of that reticence about meeting j , ft rang, rs that grown people develop,, and In this way it. wdll never get a chance to take hold. "Wlu n my boy. I marry." xplains Mrs. John, "they I won't balk every tlmo so mo one sug-i ! gests going next door to spend the evening, or joining in a neighborhood ! picnic-." Oh, fortunate young ladies who will j some day moot their fate in the ulse of John Jr. and little Bill. I I |