Jethro Bacon of Sandwich; The Weaker Sex (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1902 Excerpt: ... THE WEAKER SEX A Paper in the Pigeon-hole of the District Attorney - Wyves been bestes very unstable In ther desires, which may not chaunged be, Like a swalowe which is insaciable, Like perilous caribeis of the trouble see." The Payne 3" Sorouie of Euyll Maryagi. THE WEAKER SEX "TVTILTON wrote 'Paradise Lost' i-wA. to 'justify the ways of God to men, '" said Jack. "No one yet has ventured on an epic to justify the ways to them of women." "The ways of a young man with a maid, sang the Psalmist." "Psalmist? It's Job. But never the ways of the maid to him." "Yet the subject was not unworthy his attention," rejoined the District Attorney. "For instance, the ways to a man of his wife." "Burton has an Arabian tale on that." "Perhaps; but Christian literature on the subject is lacking." "It is cheaper to take the lighter view," said Jack. "Francis the First led off with his souvent femme varie." "Femme there is woman, not wife," said the District Attorney. "At best, it is window-pane literature." "Then take an older authority--English, this time "--and Jack quoted the motto at the head of our tale. "There the word is 'wyfe.'" "And the man was a wittol," growled the District Attorney. "Talk is cheap; had he given affection" "Men are full of affection; that's why they don't get married." "In your class, perhaps, economic independence turns the women's heads--from matrimony. But in the class I see" Here Jack's wife had to interrupt; her husband's last speech left too strong a scent for any woman not to follow. "Affection " she sniffed. "Yes, for too many. Or, if he has it before marriage," she cried, doubling her speed as Jack showed signs of overtaking, "he drops it with the ceremony He has her then, and counts upon her loving him ever afterward--which, I...