DO WOMEN ENJOY LIFE?

Shannon News, 6 August 1929, Page 1

DO WOMEN ENJOY LIFE?

MEN GET MOKE PLEASURES OUT OF IT. « Women do not get as much fun out of life as men do. I wish they did, but they don't. Girls sometimes do. Their minds are generally taken up with thoughts of such matters as marriage and a marcel wave. Later on, when they have found out tiiat neither marriage'nor a marcel wave is permanent, they'get'disillusioned. One sees the disillusioned expression on so many'women's faces nowadays, and I ci.nnot believe it is a sign of happiness, says the writer K.F.S., in the 'Daily Express.' Certainly a woman finds a joyous adventure in the buying of a new hat, but, alas! the joy is often emphe-meral. I think a man gets far more pleasures out of the cleaning the oldest a-nd dirtiest of his pipes than a woman does out of buying four new hats. You have only to watch the rapt expression on a man's face wihen he is pulling a piece of string through the stem of his ! favourite briar to realise the truth of my statement. % Of course, all men are not selfish, and an ice man will at times share his happiness and ask you to hold one end of the string for him! But it is not the same thing. No 4oman cares for pleasures at second-hand.^

Why a man seems to get fun out of anything! He'll sing, or try to, when ha is having a cold'bath. And think oi the thrills he gets out of his car. If you see a man on the ground groveJling under the chassis, his face all covered with oil and grime, you may be certain he is having a glorious time. Some men must buy cars simply for the fun of disintegrating them on Saturday afternoons, but I never heard of a woman doing so. The Japanese proverb is right: Men laugh with' their hearts, women only with their mouths. . I know which I'd rather laugh with, and I know who have the most fun —Men. . '