Osage County KS Archives News.....Article: "Sunflowers" by H.W. DAVIS, Man's Way; June 8, 1933 June 8, 1933
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The Carbondale Record June 8, 1933
Osage County
Thursday
June 8, 1933

Sunflowers by H.W. Davis.
Man's Way.
It is more pleasant to think of ways of doing things than it is to do them. Most
of my life, I fear, has been spent in pouring over possible efficient ways of
accomplishing things that never get done. Perhaps it is the man in us. 
Women, as a rule, are not afflicted. When they see something to be done, they
set about pell mell to do it. Usually they depend upon their probverbial
intuition and have everything is an awful mess in no time at all; but they work
at the job from the very beginning, betraying little interest in the best or
most efficient means to the end.
About a year ago a man and wife I know purchased a new washing machine with all
the latest doohinkies and muckets appertaining thereto. On the first few Monday
mornings the husband was at the helm of that washer until the last sock had been
whirled dry. He fiddled around with every gadget and with the tubs and laundry
room setup until he had tried out seventeen most efficient arrangements--both in
space--order and time order. But he never decided just how the washing was to be
done. 
His wife was patient and paid little attention to his dozens of efficency
schemes. It must have been a severe time for her but she stood under it
womanfully and pretended she was really thrilled with her husband's
accomplishments. 
After five or six weeks she gradually began to take over more and more of the
job of doing  the family wash. Her husband lost interest and transferred his
affections to a synthetic electric lawn mower one of his neighbors was tinkering
with. Indeed, he forgot he ever was a laundry expert and decided that the art of
mowing lawns was much more in his line.
His wife stuck to her washing, slam banging around until she was able to get it
done, in her efficient haste, in one hour and thirty-three minutes less that the
best time ever made under her husband's regime. I don't know whether his pride
was hurt or not; but he seldom enters the basement nowadays unti Wednesday or
Thursday.
This illustrates only one of the many preplexing differences between men and
women. It, or something like it, might have happened in your own home. It may
even have happened in mine. 


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