Here are Ladies

Produced by Al Haines
1914
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1913
Reprinted March, 1914.
Listen! If but women were Half as kind as they are fair There would be an end to all Miseries that do appal.
Cloud and wind would fly together In a dance of sunny weather, And the happy trees would throw Gifts to travellers below.
Then the lion, meek and mild, With the lamb would, side by side, Couch him friendly, and would be Innocent of enmity.
Then the Frozen Pole would go, Shaking off his fields of snow, To a kinder clime and dance Warmly with the girls of France.
These; if women only were Half as kind as they are fair.
He had a high nose. He looked at one over the collar, so to speak. His regard was very assured, and his speech was that short bundle of monosyllables which the subaltern throws at the orderly. He had never been questioned, and, the precedent being absent, he had never questioned himself. Why should he? We live by question and answer, but we do not know the reply to anything until a puzzled comrade bothers us and initiates that divine curiosity which both humbles and uplifts us.
He wanted all things for himself. What he owned he wished to own completely. He would give anything away with the largest generosity, but he would share with no one—
Whatever is mine, said he, must be entirely mine. If it is alive I claim its duty to the last respiration of its breath, and if it is dead I cannot permit a mortgage on it. Have you a claim on anything belonging to me? then you may have it entirely, I must have all of it or none.