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He

man who shall ever totally be yours, or you his. is part of you and has always been, nor could women have survived the ages without his help. He is your mostly silent partner, your personal warrior, your final protector.

Do not pretend that you did not know he is there, for you have known. If he were not, you would be only a sham of a woman. It is the contrast which makes you even more feminine.

He can be a devil at times, as most men. But daily he helps you live your working life, enables you to feel at home with things of the mind and to relate with confidence to the man's world of the job. He is an able fellow and though he learns everything quickly except discipline, he can be con- trolled once you realize the increasing need you have of him.

He is the drillmaster; he is administrator, scholar, and more. He is our independence and valor, he is the force when we would win. Yet sometimes, even after he is trained, he may go on a tear and drag us underfoot, raging and storming and beating his chest. When he does, woman, who has lived so many centuries under the shadow of a minus sign, re- joices in the way he roars! And we begin to revel in the pulse of power he gives us, and his bold, brash ways which, without him, we would never dare to try. light.

And even as we fear him, he is joy and de-

He is the ballast that keeps our tiny ships. steady in rough waters, and he who first tires of our weak, womanly tears. No matter their cause, he is who orders us, finally, to dry our eyes and think instead of merely to feel and weep.

Now and then, without your calling him, you wake to find he's up already! He shows himself in the glint that supplants the soft glow in your woman's

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