The Archive · 1930

AMERICAN VIGNETTES

Domesticity New York has a new pastime which is causing serious cogitation among young philosophers, theorists, Freudists, biologists, and psy chiatrists' who find hey often hay little spare time on their han may as well be exercising their minds. This they do by trying to figure out just why wives always air their domestic tribulations at feminine gatherings, such as bridge parties, while husbands ct poker parties always give the serene im-Préssion that they are utterly content with their wives, homes, and families, Biologists believe thut it all comes down to the fact tha, the feminine nervous system is, s0 con strued that not only is it irritated more readily and to a greater extent than the masculine nervous system but it cannot forget. Philosophers, on the other hand, maintain that men remember longer, only they remember the joys and not - the tribulations and never get over the shock of their first short-lived adoration of the sweetheart who Jater becomes the wife. Out of aight of nagging spouses they re-Tepse into pleasanter and deeper grooves of memory. Psychiatrists have traced it back to childhood selion little boys went out and played, thinking of nothing save their own physical exuberance, and little girls hed to hang around mother and listen to her complain about how she had to slave all day hile father did nothing but sit in an office. There are many other theories, all plausible, but the truth of the matter probably is that as far as husbands ave concerned a woman is a woman but a good cigar is a smoke and a poker game is just which the feminine ply does not enter.

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