Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1911 — GENEVIEVES I KNOW (Also their JAMIES) [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GENEVIEVES I KNOW (Also their JAMIES)

By HELEN HELP

The Genevieve Who Sells Herself a Gold Brick

The woman who marries a man she does not love is selling herself a gold twO¥, Heretofore, the" pronunclamentos have all been the other way. It has been declared by the how-to-make-home-happy writers and the women who coo through a tew columns to tell wives all about meeting him with a smile and always wearing a pink rose in your hair and never being caught with a pink wrapper on after eight o'clock in the morning; that.the wom-

whole, wide world. But, of course, he gets his kiss. There is such a thing as a sense of duty and fairness in Genevieve. And James is paying good cash for those kisses. 1 can't bear to have my little wlfle away all summer," murmurs this for-saken-of-the-Lord James. “I simply cannot think of having her away from me for so long. Suppose you wait till I can go with you. And we'll choose some little place where I can run over every Sunday." “Very well. James,” says Genevieve, and her heart sinks down, down into her little suede boots, because she has been counting on a month's breathing spell where there wasn't a sign of her James, or any other woman's James, or any James as yet unattached. For, to the heart of her, she is sick of Jameses. ~ "Hl be able to get away and help you choose your spring suit,” says this most fatuous of husbands. "Just run downtown this afternoon and I’ll meet you.” He dearly loves to help his wife select her clothes. They get the frock and then begins the dicker for a hat James is the paymaster, and Genevieve curls up with disgust, because he likes such unutterable things; but she cannot deny him the exercise of his taste, because, if she does, she is going to have to coax him. And to coax James! Because by the time she has lived a year or two with an unloved James he gives her the horrors worse than even at first And, you just take my word for it the James she doesn't love is having a fine time. Because the other kind, the sensitive sort, would have had sense enough to know from the start that she had no use tor him. Think aboht this, dear girls, when you are looking at the diamond that James is offering. Do you love James? Not does James you? It is to be supposed that he does, or he would not be expending good money for diamonds, unless, Indeed, you have a million or two in your own right Do you love James? Because, if you wed him, not loving him, you are selling a gold brick, not to James, but to

am who wedded without love was handing the gold brick to the man. Not at all, not at all. James is usually glad enough to get Genevieve at any price. And by the time the glamor has worn off and he has time enough left from his own emotions to think about hers, he has quit thinking about emotions and got back on the job. . This is when Genevieve is going to be very, very lonely. If she loves James, she can think about him with all sorts of comfortable little thrills and remember all his niceness and forget an occasional hasty word. It is endurable even to read the lucubrations of the happy-homers In the Household column, when she does so by the light of her love for James. But suppose she does not love James. Then what has she got, after the new of the trousseau has worn off, except ashes and dust and such unpleasant things? Even if James has quantities of money, she has to put up with a man who gives her the shivers every evening for dinner and every morning for breakfast, and if she dodges the issue and doesn't come down to breakfast, she has to let him kiss her goodbye, anyway. Because, with the naturally wrong-headedness of man, these are precisely the circumstances under which James never forgets to kiss his little girl good-bye. “Has my little girl been lonely today r coos James, with a piece of soot on his nose, his bald spot showing, and in need of aahave, as he hurries into Genevieve’s boudoir—or kitchen, as the family circumstances permit , v “Has my little girl been lonely? I brought her such a .big box of candy this time. Do I get the kiss that's coming to me?" Very bristly is James, and a trifle grotesque, all of which counts not at all when Genevieve loves him; but when she doesn't It counts all the

Genevieve. If you are one of the submissive sort, you may end by learning to love him. like they tell about Otherwise you will probably elope with the Young Brute around the corner—and never regret It but once afterwards. (Copyright, by Associated Literary Press)

"Has My Little Girl Been Lonely Today?"

"She Cannot Deny Him the Exercise of His Taste."