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Baasaa.. 30 M210110
THIS WEEK 3 WOMEN DROVE
HE more I see and hear of wo
Tmen, the more 1 marvel at
their power to enslave and bemuse at least eight out of ten given men, and their even more astonishing power to drive peace-loving fellows to the verge of madness.
I amoyed.
Blame thres woman
eek for that
ME
MAD!
Elsie, kids? Oh, a man happens to be polite to you boy, if yun only knew the half of you're playing him the dirties.“ it!" She rolled her eyes and there trick in your power. You're no was slander on Mr-
in every ever as honest as the girl who fails roll
in love with a man and risks an Why I said, maybe foolishly, allair with him, is that the sort of thing. goes. on ?”
She Said Her Husband Wa
Never A B
She countered
blink
them
You're a coward with a dirt. mind.--
was not in love with any of was not even remotely fona
Yet these women,
In thirty minutes she gave me a "When I was a small boy, grown- hour of conversation, had review of
of that of ups would tell me to wash out my fice male
would have mouth if they caught me swearing. made the
he Arabian Would to heaven I could make you Nights Ent
his scrub your imagination clean!”” manuscript.
each exasperated me:
My annoyance soon died down, and as it did I realised that pos- sibly these women had not offend- ed me intentionally.
That is why I am telling you the story of the three women who made me mad.
The
She is a typist
let's
writer
And why tacked him
an attack on made me
hought
the at-
Because he was so dull, so re- ular, so trust wo
He always turned up at home the same hour every even she could never get him to take her ing, expensive places to know his every mo
ed come
of
Possibly there was a grain of The second woman was let's truth beneath the mountain of fic- call her Rosa, since I'm disgusing never "different," but, ohl tion she had created For a while their real names.
ingly dependable. it amused me to see how she had. Now Rosa is one of these ad- I thought, as she let her imagination run away with vanced, modern women. Dresses in the thousands of her her:
a semi-masculine style, talks loudly who would gladly and authoritatively.
“exciting." pictures care and quite callous husbands for a man who is decent and honour- able enough to love his home and guard it as a sanctuar
I
Then I became angry.
I suddenly remembered that half don't mean that she is a bad girl. a dozen girls like "Elsie could tell On the contrary, in a few years even more shocking stories about she will probably make an admir me with just as Ettle cause. able wife and mother
I know the office where she works and quite a few of the people employ her.
I SAID TO ELSIE:
Well, I think you're on rather thick After the men you've he dead scared to things you de dear”
We were four in the party. rather mice young fellow, his wife, Rosa, and myself.
From the moment we met Rosa fixed her glittering eye on this young wife and started to ridicule I SAID TO JANE. fing it everything she held dear. most of Rosa roared with delight when oned would the husband mentioned the subur of the ban house he is buying on a twenty be silly, year plan
Now biste has a good job.
She lives at home with her par- ents, is rarely delayed at the of fice, since her immediate chief is one of those rare men who get their dictation finished the morning BUT I OUGHT TO HAVE SAID TO will arrive down the chimney Just
and
afternoon.
ourse,
Mr
said
added, grand kid."
THE
ELSIE
You're Just
and a Nice little fellow," dangerous one that. Just be- wife, too, and a cause you happen to be modernate
ly good-looking, and just because
WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"
For Teetotallers
Only
"Keep up the payments, Jack," shouted Rosa, enemy bomb
as the receipt for the last instal- ment drops through the letterbox!”
dected wives change their
devil-may
"Oh, there are many worse than your husband. You'd probably get a shock if you had married the kind of man you admire now.
BUT I OUGHT TO HAVE SAID TO
JANE
"Why, you.
No, I oughtn't to
The young husband dried up. thing His first timid contributions to the ought to have put her conversation drew an annihilating my knee and smacked her. response from Rosa
So the talk languished until Rosa, with a cry of "Well, I sup- pose you people have nothing better
ITALIAN
to do" than talk about babies and s
[bungalows,” whirled away. ASSURANCE TO
1 SAID TO ROSA:
"Don't be so disagreeable. We CHEN KUNG PO
allow you a right to your own opin- Louis Bisch, New York consulting on why not admit we have minds, psychologist, summing up his own too? Come on, have another cup of observation in "Bachelor," blames tea and be quiet a moment.
The modern the male no more.
N amethyst worn in the navel is a safeguard against drunken- bachelor, he says, is the logical ont- BUT I OUGHT TO HAVE SAID TO ness: against the drunkenness of come of the modern women's fierce others as well as indulgence on your over-playing of her own game. own part.
* *
The origin of the superstition, For The Broad- says, "Coronet," lies in a frustrated Minded Only love affair. Dionysius, dead drunk,
Chen
of
here from Rome yes
statements
To-day.
ROSA "You're just a fake. You bluster terviewed the Italia through life intimidating and deter, Count Ciano, and Signor
ng most people. But you don'ı golini. deceive
what is more im
n'ts even decerve
you
Her state
feated you. You don't
ness.. Fasting
tere said
became a source of annoyance to a The tactics employed by perfidi- girl, who implored the help of the ans Albion have always been to goddess Diana
onfuse international issues, like the know any Not a moment too soon, Diana cuttlefish squirting its ink in the "So in revenge you set out to turned the girl into pure amethyst surrounding waters in order to con- sneer and stamp on the things that
Brüssels Confer Dionysius was foiled again, from ceal the plans made for her own ad-have brought other people the hap rapid and satisfactory solutio then onwards the amethyst became vantage. "Thanks to this double piness you have missed, homes, conformity with the fashionable amongst all enemies of game, England has succeeded in ex-babies, love, trust, charity, little the Nine-Power Treaty. Bacchus: and was worn in the navel, tending her tentacles to the four domestic stories, honesty, ambition where it was both safe and unob-
quarters of the globe."Continental trusive.
paper.
To this day amethyst is consider- ed a safeguard against alcoholism.
Curious.
For Bachelors Only
penalties,
is one of the
First Tourist (examining suit of armour):
What on earth is this?" Second Tourist: "It must be a bathing costume for the Mediter
ranean
For The Drawing- privileges of bachelor Room:
What makes a bachelor?
It is no longer
tiona
to put
mart thing "What days is that certain menthe
bad
age ha
were escorting
a field on a dark and
you
ke
about
We've got to wa
"But I needn't trouble to tel you all this. You know it. And you
OBJECT OF MISSION
nis-
Lega
and
know it most bitterly when you Object of his mission leave the noisy party and go to form Chinese your little room where you sit alone tons of internal
quite alone looking at yourself policies in China since the begining and hating yourself. :
The third Im going endane
Jane is
She aske
Chen Kung-po
{Paris-from Brussels-
for