Essay(s) by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Isn‘t That Just Like a Man!
I understand that Mr. Irvin Cobb is going to write a sister article to this, and naturally he will be as funny as only he can be. It is always allowable, too, to be humorous about women. They don‘t mind, because they are accustomed to it.
But I simply dare not risk my popularity by being funny about men. Why, bless their hearts (Irvin will probably say of his subject, "bless their little hearts." Odd, isn‘t it, how men always have big hearts and women little ones? But we are good packers. We put a lot in ‘em) I could be terribly funny, if only women were going to read this. They‘d understand. They know all about men. They‘d go up-stairs and put on a negligee and get six baby pillows and dab a little cold cream around their eyes and then lie down on the couch and read, and they would all think I must have known their men-folks somewhere.
But the men would read it and cancel the order for my next book, and say I must be a spinster, living a sort of in
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