She crops up in every phase of life. And the great trouble about her is, not that she is more beautiful, more talented, or more seduce tive than a gentleman's legitimate spouse, but that she is a new audience, Wives are constantly accused of regarding her, and indeed all attractive females, with suspicion and dislike. Not a bit of it! Wives do not dislike the other woman for being the other woman,—although their husbands' second and. third choices may appear to them tasteless. What they dislike is the fact of having to sit about with their eyes ostensibly shut to affairs that are as obvious to ordinary intel ligence as the sun in the heavens For the moment a man begins to replay his best parts to the new audience, the old audience knows it. Trust them for that! They re member what that cock of the hat, that curl of the mustache, that particular swagger portends, and before very long they guess for whom these things are portended.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.