Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1915 — Just a Look [ARTICLE]

Just a Look

-My son," counseled Wyzun, “you must be careful not to select a best seller wife. There have been more domestic disturbances over the best seller habit than over any other one thing that I know of! "When a woman gets to reading .best sellers her own husband begins to measure up pretty short. He can’t compare with a best seller husband. In a best seller a woman can tell her husband four or five pages of stuff with just one 100k —” “Gee!" objected the sox “I shouldn’t think women would like that arrangement—doing away with talk.” "They like it," explained Papa Wy zun, "because they can do more talking in a day that way than in any other. If one look is equal to a couple ot chapters they can talk volumes in a day! But a man can’t talk by looks. "When he comes home at night and sees that there is no Are in the kitchen stove, and that the kitchen bakepan is guiltless of any biscuits, he thinks that there is something radically wrong, but he doesn’t realize that his best seller wife has been having a seance with her soul. All*he sees is that there is nothing doing in the way of grub. “Then his wife gives him a look, which ought to explain it all. But it doesn’t Her husband is a mere cross man with a ferocious appetite. If he is a model young man he doesn’t make a fuss. He even does a little comedy. He makes signs expressive of hunger. Then his wife gives him another look. ‘That second look doesn’t help at all. The husband' merely asks for his slippers. "At that he gets a sort of withering, sarcastic look, which seems to say, ‘Where.are your slippers? What a question! In the canary’s cage, no doubt, or under the house, or on the piano.’ “The husband begins to see light at last. He goes out softly, leaving bis best seller wife to her books. If he captures a can of beans and a crust of bread he is lucky.” "The only safe literature for a wife is a cook-book,” responded Wyzun, Jr.”