WOMEN SO QUICK !
TO FIND AN INSULT
Is It a Lack of the Sense of
Humor That Makes Them
Ready to Take Offense?
By Dorothy Dix.
Why do women take offense bo
much more easily than men? There
is no use, my sisters, in raising an
Indignant howl of protest and saying
that they don't. Wo all know that
they do and that every woman
bristles with feelings as a porcupine
does with quills.
You cannot deal with .a woman
as you can with a man; yon cannot
talk to a woman as you can to a
man, and on your life you dare not
tell a woman the truth as you would
a man. She always has to be handled
with kid glovqs, because, as the i
homely old phrase goes, she takes of- I
fense where none was intended. I
Never Try to Please a Woman by Tell
ing Her That Her Waist Gaj)C9.
Tha most curious and abnormal il
lustration of this is to be found in
the fact that if you tell a woman that
something is wrong with her costume,
ninety-nine times out of a hundred
she sees a deadly insult in your kindly
meant attention and gives you a bale
ful glare that teaches you to let all |
future women go around with their l
plackets gaping or their shirt waists
unbuttoned if they happen that way. !
Only recently a woman friend of j
mine whose pphilanthropy no amount
of experience can ever entirely
squelch, was walking up the street |
behind a lady who had neglected in |
making her toilette to hook her skirt j
belt and was, in consequence thereof, j
in imminent danger of losing an lm- j
portant part of her attire. Said my j
friend, with a winning smile:
"Pardon me, madam, but your skirt j
Is unfastened in the back and is j
about to drop."
Said the other woman, with a look
that brought the temperature down!
to zero in that immediate vicinity: |
"I don't see that that's any busi
ness of yours."
Which proposition closed the inci
dent.
This is by no means an Isolated I
case. Nearly every woman has had j
something sipiilar happen to her when
she ventured to tell a sister woman!
that something was awry with her at
tire. As for calling a woman's at-1
tention to having gotten her false I
hair on crooked, or her figure on'
hind part before, or that she had hit I
the rouge box too liberally, or had I
located her eyebrows in the wrong j
place, nobody who hasn't a candidate
for martyrdom and heavily insured |
for the benefit of her family would |
dream of committing such a fool
hardy act.
Yet a Man Will Thank You for TeHiijs
Him of Some Krror in His Attire. I
In contradiction to this, imagine!
the fervor of gratitude that would be I
a man's "Thank you, old chap," if I
some good-hearted brother would
call his attention to the fact that he I
had gotten on his clothes in a way!
that made him a figure of fun, or that
some unperceived accident had hap-1
pened to his attire.
If in a jam in a store or on the cars
or at the theater you unintentionally
Jostle a woman she adopts the atti
tude of accusing you of having done
it on purpose and with malice afore
thought. As for attempting to apolo
gize. it is a waste of breath. The
offended one turns upon you with a
look that says as plainly as print, "I
knew that you did it on purpose and
that you have just been waiting for
this opportunity to step on my skirt
or bump my hat. If you hadn't, why
didn't you tear that other woman's
dress or smash her hat out of shape?
Oh, I know your mean, low-down mo
tlves In crowding me. You can't fool
me."
Women also show a diabolical inge-
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DISAPPEAR
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Don't neglect your looks, don't let
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nights before retiring and you will be
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It is not a face cream and contains
nothing that will cause hair growth.
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nuity In disoverlng personal Insults'
In general statements. If, for In- j
stance. In a mixed company of wo-1
men you shouldin cautiously make the
statement that red hair indicated
temper every auburn-locked lady in I
tho room would jump on you with
the announcement that she guessed
she was just about as amiable and!
as easy to get along with as some |
people she oculd mention, if she i
would, that had black hair or brown.
The great foe to all women's or-;
ganizatlons has been this talent that;
women have for taking offense wherol
none was intended, and when any- j
thing was said that they could pos->
sibly construe Into any sort of a
criticism on themselves, their fam-!
ilies or their housekeeping, getting
j up and taking their doll rags and
I going home.
I Businessmen Have No Time to Soothe,
the Feelings of Women Employes.
Happily, this is not as bad as it
used to be, and the great mission of
the women's clubs has been to teach
women to look at things from a
broader standpoint than tho purely
personal. When woman got so that
she could have her resolution voted
down without regarding every other
women who opposed her as a mortal
enemy it marked a milestone in the
progress of the sex.
Woman's proneness to take undue
offense is one of the chief stumbling
blocks that she finds in business.
Busy businessmen, harried and worn,
have no time to soothe down the sen
sibilities of a creature ■who is 80 per
cent feelings and 20 per out nerves,
and fehat is a conclusive reason why
the office boy is more apt to go up
the ladder of success than the office
girl.
There are few women who can lis
ten to a criticism of their work with
out considering it a deadly insult, no
matter how bad the work is, and, this
being true, and an employer not wish
ing to be put in the 4light of insulting
a woman, finds it easier and pleas
anter to dismiss a girl rather than
point out to her the mistakes she
makes, thus depriving the girl of tho
chance of correcting her shortcom
ings and learning to do her work
properly.
But you might multiply instances
endlessly to prove tlie touchiness of
women. Why is this? Why does the
sex go about with a chip on its
shoulder?
Is it constitutional?
Is it sensitiveness?
Or is it a lack of the sens© of
humor?
Soldiers' Brides in
Happy Tent Homes
El Paso, Tex., Dec. 15. How to
have a honeymoon and be a soldier,
too, has been exemplified by two De
troit guardsmen, who have con
structed khaki huts for their brides
within 100 feet of the troopers' tents
in the main camp here. The two girls
have gone merrily to housekeeping in
their army dovecoteß, and apparently
are as happy as any brides could be.
The brides are sisters, formerly
Carmen and Elizabeth Boberts, of De
troit. The bridegrooms are First Ser
geant Frank J. McShara and Private
Thomas Moon, Company D, Thirty
first Michigan. Carmen Boberts and
Moon were tho first pair married, but
when Sergeant McShara met Miss
Elizabeth at the camp another cere
mony soon followed, and the two fel
low soldiers became brothers-in-law.
The newly weds have set up pyra
midal khalti tents, with Madeira pine
flooring. The tents are heated by
small, conical stoves, and the cook
ing is done out of doors In true fron
tier fashion.
"J. Pierpont Morgan"
Fined SSO and Costs
Chicago, 111., Dec. 15.—-'All the "nag"
of the name of "J. Pierpont Morgan"
and all the eloquence of the man who
gave It when he called a wagon load
of police to a saloon at Clark and
Ohio streets Wednesday night, failed
to move Judge Sullivan. "Mr. Morgan"
was fined SSO and costs, spent a second
night in a cell, and to-day will bo
examined as to his sanity.
"Your honor, this great city is filled
with dives and disorderly saloons and
to remove this to the citizens, I
wanted to clean them out, and so I
called the police," the defendant be
gan dramatically.
"What do you do when you're not
in Wall street?" the judge asked.
"Well, I'm a steamboat captain,
your honor," the erstwhile financier
answered.
"On the 'Old Green River,' I pre
sume," the Jurist commented.
If Cat Had Been Dog, He
Could Decide, Says Judge
I London, Dec. 15.—Because a cat is
| not a dog, Magistrate de Grey was un-
I able to decide the ownership of a
i Persian cat, which a woman at West
; London said was being detained by a
! neighbor.
"Now a cat is not a dog and a dog
is not a cat," said the Magistrate. "If
it was a dog I could have it brought
| into court and I might -be able to
t give it some sort, of Solomon's Judg
! ment by seeing which person it went
I to. But a cat is a lonesome creature,
as Kipling has pointed out, and if
the animal were brought here and told
to go to its owner it probably would
do nothing but sit still and lick its
paws. It's very wrong of the cat, but
that's Its way."
However, the application for a sum
mons for the neighbor was granted.
"Ladies Only" to Be Tried
Afternoons by Ohio Judge
Columbus, Ohio, Dec. IB.—Begin
ning Monday Judge Osborn of the
Municipal Court, will hold a session
for "Ladies only" every afternoon to
accommodate women violators of the
new traffic code of Columbus.
Women protested against being ar
raigned with vagabonds and drunks
at the regular morning session of
police court.
Biggest Comet Flying
Million Miles a Day!
St. Louis.—Father Martin S. Bren
nan, the astronomer priest, reports he
has located Comet B, the most gi
gantic comet of modern times. It is
speeding toward the sun, he says, at
the rate of 1,134,246 miles a day, and
will be a thing of glory In the north
western sky next Spring, probably re
maining visible for three months.
Mostly Officers on
v Sandusky, Ohio, Force
Sandusky, 0., Dec. 15.—Officers out
numbered patrolmen in a new plan
for the reorganization of the police
department presented to the city com
mission.
The proposed aristocratic force will
consist of a chief, captain, lieutenant,
three desk sergeants, three motor
cycle sergeants, two patrol drivers
and nine patrolmen.
Post-War Trade Problems
of U. S. to Be Discussed
New York, Dec. 15. Believing
that the many problems that have
arisen in foreign trade merit the earn
est consideration of American busi
l nessmen, James A. Farrell, chairman
| of the National Foreign Trade Coun-
I cil, has issued a call for the Fourth
I N'ational Foreign Trade Convention,
to be held at Pittsburgh, January 25-
) 26-27. The convention will be held
iin co-operation with the commercial
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Union Clothing Co.
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able and willing. . I
and industrial organizations of that
city, through the Pittsburgh Foreign
Trade Commission, and all Americans
engaged in or desirous of entering
overseas commerce are invited to
participate "in a practical and con
structive discussion of policies and
practices necessary to meet keener
competition which the United States
may encounter in world markets after
the war."
JACOB S. I.E<IHEIt DIES
Waynesboro, Pa., Dec. 15.—Jacob S.
Lesher, one of the best-known citizens
of this section, died at his home south
9
of Waynesboro, along the Leltersburg
turnpike, yesterday. He was 74 years
old. He had been In ill health for sev
eral weeks and sustained a stroke of
paralysis, December 6.
LANCASTER COUNTY DEATHS
Intercom-*?.—Mrs. Margaret Flchner,
91 years old, died Wednesday night.
She is survived by two sons.
JMoiintvllle.—Henry Immel, a retired
blacksmith, died yesterday, aged 85
years. A son and daughter, two broth
ers and a sister survive. Death was
due to a stroke after a few hours' Ill
ness.