Argosy All-Story Weekly — page 160: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

By SAMUEL G. CAMP habitually spells the word Success with a capital, and you will find that fully nine-tenths of the boys which has scored heavily in business, art, literature, and the sciences, including Mah Jongg, in- variably attributes their remarkable success to their beautiful and charming helpmates. As a matter of fact, they say, it was only through the constant help and encourage- ment of the little woman that they finally attained to the astonishing heights which they now occupy. Or words to that effect. Which statement the average reader ac- cepts as a beautiful tribute to the female of the species—and with a mental reservation which might be put into some such words as ‘‘ Apple sauce!” or the like, according to taste. But not so fast, as they say in the movies. Did you ever stop to think that—reading between the lines, as you might say—there is, possibly, considerably more fact than fic- P= up any of the magazines which tion to the above statement of our leading lights in the worlds of business, art, and et cetera? ‘That, in fact, and to put the matter in a more or less brutal manner, had these highly successful birds not succeeded, why the little woman would of almost cer- tainly crowned them with the vacuum clean- er, or something? Well, I hope to tell you! Take myself for a sample. At the time my unblushing bride married me, I was twisting a wicked camera for O-Kay Come- dies. So about three weeks after the fatal wedding the little woman began to lend me her constant help and encouragement. ‘« Jim,” she says to me one day, “ is there any reason why you shouldn’t be a director instead of a mere camera man?” “Absolutely none whatsoever,” I told her, ‘ As far as all the qualifications is con- cerned, why, I got Rex Ingram looking like one of the ex-bartenders which composed our principal pictures when the industry was 79° (S@) Eomichooks