The Quiet Corner
THE QUIET CORNER I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library.---C. Lamb. "I wish," said Euphemia (n6e, Miss Brynmarian) "that they would stop picking on women." "Poor pickings at best,"...
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...The colonel,' she read, 'is in charge of the local church during the absence of the rector...
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...Within twenty-four hours of the announcement that male celibates would hencefortk be obliged to pay an annum tribute for their single bliss, at least IOO,OOO bachelors, a majority of whom are beyond the first blush of youth, applied for brides.' I hope they were all turned down," concluded Euphemia spitefully...
...The British colonel wants women to wear 'more to cover themselves...
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...What else did the speaker say...
...You're as bad as this colonel--a retired army officer in England, who, the paper says, has decided to try military methods in reforming women's dress...
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...I suppose the far-off, sunny land I'd really be happiest in, is northern Alaska...
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...What men really admire in women is that quality, expressed by the much- abused term, 'the dinging vine...
...conduded Euphemia...
...and Murdock Aves...
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...Well," replied Euphemia, "there seem to be several...
...Then let's have none of it here," hastily interposed Dr...
...But you men are so inconsistent," objected Euphemia...
...Women,' he continued loftily, 'should not be allowed to drive automobiles.' " "He was most certainly right," said Britannicus...
...Angelicus...
...Why...
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...Angelicus, as Euphemia made a lunge for the editorial scissors...
...Of course they do--that's why they are the superior sex," corrected Euphemia...
...If you would all only hold the same views, it might be easier for us...
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...Me~ we eaimate o~ ~owt pr:mtimg...
...In an address to the Young Women's Christian Association, an inane speaker has urged women to begin to take themselves seriously...
...inquired Dr...
...They have given an example of hereir virtue that ought never to be to that land to which their spirits gave their brave dust.~A r. Y. Times...
...I order them to discontinue it when coming to church...
...Headmaster, St...
...Here is a despatch from Germany stating that a prominent psychiatrist, testifying as an expert at a recent trial, declared that a defendant could not be held responsible for killing two persons with an automobile, 'because she was a woman...
...What are his other commandments ?" "Very amusing," said Euphemia...
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...Anyway," said Britannicus, yawning and rising, "I'm tired of all this discussion in the American papers about women...
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...But they do--that's just what's the matter with them," complained Britannicus...
...What is the next one ?" "It's even more ridiculous than the first," said Euphemia...
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...Let us, rather, take up, in dignified, amicable fashion, the discussion of these complaints against women...
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...Thou shalt be loving, and thou shah have love.' Who would want it, under such conditions...
...I feel sure," remarked Euphemia, "that he was one of the very men who were only too glad to be driven about by girls in the motor corps during the war...
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...I think military methods of defense against it, would be more sensible," remarked Dr...
...His first act was to post a "parish order" on the church door: Young female persons have adopted a style of dress which is immodest and most o1...
...He is quite right," maintained Britannicus...
...Dept...
...It's because, in the really important things, woman is above criticism...
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...Well," said Euphemia, again referring to her paper, "I see that Premier Mussolini's recent creation of a tax on bache- lors between twenty-five and sixty-five, is causing a stir on the Italian matrimonial market...
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...Much ado about nothing...
...There's no use being a dinging vine in an age when there's nothing stable to cling to," remarked Euphemia acidly...
...And I'm tired of this New York winter...
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...He continued," replied Euphemia, "in the following maudlin fashion: 'But it is a good omen that the world is beginning to take women more seriously from the neck up.' " "That's because there's nothing left to take seriously from the neck down," commented Britannicus...
...I might have gone there...
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...Euphemia ignored him as she referred again to her paper...
...inquired Britannicus...
...I'm glad you warned me against Italy," said Britannicus seriously...
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...Oh, of course, you would digress into an attack on their clothing," sniffed Euphemia...
...Irish atmosphere...
...asked Euphemia maliciously...
...Tear bombs, for instance...
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...I disapprove strongly of short skirts, bare necks, and bare arms, and I hope women will soon wear more to cover themselves.' " "I admire his spirit, at least," commented Britannicus...
...Poor pickings at best," admitted Britannicus...
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...It's only his English that is at fault...
...The clergyman's advice is meant well," explained Dr...
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Vol. 5 • January 1927 • No. 10
