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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

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