THE TYRANNY OF TEARS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE TYRANNY OF TEARS.

... .—_—*•» ■„ A plat which" was revived' some time ago contained a/ parody of the idea i that a woman's best weapon is" her\tears.'-,The" heroine, by dint of flooding; the stage at frequent intervals, certainly did contrive to get her own way, but 1 at a- price which she little guessed at first. The newly-married man is quite aghast when he first suffers the baptism of bis wife's/tears, but as time goes on she cries more to obtain his sympathy than because she really wants to. *' "Do anything, but don't cry ! "exclaims the husband in exasperated accents, as his wife meets him at the doorway their little home on his return from business. Her eyes are filled with tears all ready to falls, just because her husband had a little tiff with her that morning. / j-'"-She remembers the first time she tried her weapon upon him. Then, they had been only two days, married, and he raved up and down . the room, beseeching her not to make him more miserable, and eventually ended by taking • her lin - his arms and petting her. : But no w he has grown so used to her weeping that he.no longer worries, and a too-ready production of her handkerchief only irritates him beyond endurance. .:. If a woman cries very, very rarely, in- • deed, and then only when -it is something worth while crying| about, b she can com- ; mand all the tenderness from her husband that she < desires.- He - knows ; and J appre-. dates the fact- that she is usually a sensible little .woman, and is therefore • the more ready to comfort and pet her. // Women ■ rarely cry; when alone, except under the J stress of .great emotion. A { woman often says to herself :' .** I -shall have a really/good cry when I .get- to my j room! " But when she does reach her ' room, she sits down on her bed and ' decides that it isn't worth a headache and i an unbecoming complexion rafter all! . I The husband likes to have a happy wife j about his house, who will greet him with 1 a smile when he goes home at night. He wants a companion"' too, and one who, ] when they have differences, will listen?to : l his side of the case instead of melting j into, uncontrollable tears. It is of no use j to talk reasonably to a weeping woman. She will either ;be too absorbed in her own misery to listen, or ; else will try to interrupt, and amidst sobs, explain how cruel she thinks her husband is to make her I cry!- ■ -.. ...V - I "i She thinks he is more cruel, still when, tired of trying to reason with her,: he goes ■ out and : bangs the , door. If she had | only managed him ;in a quieter way, she ] would probably have brought him round, to her way of thinking, and would most j certainly have made him think her a much/ more sensible, and adorable little woman] than most. ■-'~. - - - ._?:'-/ ';/