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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 15, 1989
By BUD FISHER
I THOUGHT 3 WAS OFF THE ROAD BUT HERE'S THAT SMALL BRIDGE MUTT
WAS TELLING ME ABOUT!
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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
Phil Measures Up
Sim "She wasn't sure that I could like give her what she needed. She said had she had always had
of
Ca
horror
In the spring of 1936 Phil mons was quite sure he would He to marry Betty Ishington, met her several months before at a marrying an artist. She said artists New Year's party. We all liked often lacked in qualities which
she Betty. She was attractive and good had admired in men." He looked at natured. But toward the end of that me beseechingly. "What can I do? same summer Phil and Betty broke I'll never be happy without Daphne."
"You're quite sure you love her?"
off. ?
"What happened?" I asked him. Phil's face took on a serious look. "I was never more sure of anything "We had a talk and decided it wouldn't in my life" be wise to risk marriage,
You see,
it occurred to me that Betty wasn't
"Then measure up, if that is her
in sympathy with what I want to do, requirement,'
I want to paint, you know, If I fol- We didn't see Phil for two weeks. lowed my ambition, as I'd have to He dropped in at the office, looking as do, it would mean a certain amount though he hadn't slept for daye; his of sacrifice on her part. And if she face was haggard, his body, thinner, didn't understand me-my moods and but with a gleam in his eyes. inner urgings-we wouldn't be happy"
"I see," I said...
"I've got a job! he said.
"I'm
In the spring of 1937 Phil met working in a filling station, I'm going Maude Irons. Maude was pretty, up to see Daphne to-day!"
She was smart as a whip. She had "You won't have to," I said, "She's ambition, enough to get her out of coming down to-night." the five and dime store where, of
necessity, she had gone to work after During the weeks that followed we finishing High school. We
liked observed the queer antics of a man in
By Meredith Scholl
Maude. We had a lot of admiration love. If Phil thought that Daphnë
for her. Phil thought he'd like marry her, and we were glad.
Toward the end of that summer Phil and Maude had a falling out, "What happened?" I asked him.
to would be satisfied with the fact that he was working in a filling station, he was mistaken; She wanted him to. get ahead, so he worked desperately and managed by sheer force of will to win a better job as supervisor of a half dozen near-by stations Things He looked grave. "Maude and I looked good, but Daphne still wasn't had a talk," he confided, "and decided, sure. She wondered whether Phil against marriage. You see," he ad could provide what she needed in a mitted, "I'm afraid she couldn't give husband. She wasn't quite able to me the things I need in a wife. For define these needs, and poor Phil one thing, she has little background; practically ruined his health trying to had to fight her way out of the sluma measure 'up. to where she is now. As an artist I would have to meet people, and, na turally I would want a wife with no inferiority complexes.”
"I see," I said.
In 1938 Phil Simmons met Daphne
Winter came on and one-week-end Daphne was missing. She reappear- ed Sunday night and with her was Phil. They both looked pretty gay.
"We're married!" Phil cried, his eyes shining.
"Well, well, well!”. I. declared.
But
Danvers, My aunt and I introduced Later Daphne came into my study. him to her. She was a distant cousin feel like such a bruite."
"It worked!" she said. "But, oh, I of mine, and had come down from Bayview for a visit. We liked her hadnt followed my advice you wouldn't
"You shouldn't" · "I said.
"If you immensely. She was as attractive, be married now, Phil has thought he's but an extremely normal girl. She been in love a half dozen times. became interested in Phil, as most
he hasn't. Any man who spends his womon, at first, are apt to do.
time wondering what a girl, or life, Watching from the sidelines I read can give hin, and nuver gives A the signs and knew that pretty soon thought to what he can give in return Phil and Daphno were going to an- im't in love or isn't in a healthy state nounce their engagement, - They of mind. If you hadn't put him to did. Daphne went back to Bayview the best you never would have been and Phil planned to go up and see sure.” hor the following week.
The day he got back from
"But I want him to be an artist. · I'd. that sacrifice most anything to see him trip he called in to see us. He looked succoed as a painter. And now he
him.
unhappy and rather desperate, thinks I don't. How am I going to tell
"What happened?” I asked
him I didn't mean what I said, and how "She doesn't love me," he told us I really feel?” miserably, "She's had a chance - to I became thoughtful. "I guess," I think it over.”` We could toll by said, "that love will have to find a the tone of his voice and the look in way, Ho, Ha!”
his eyes that he was deeply hurt,Ha, ha, yourself!" Daphne cried bewildered.
viciously, "You meddling cupid! If
"Did she say she didn't love you?" you're so
I asked.
"Sho`said worso. She said she had
ried why aren't you mar-
"Tha
sald gravely, "I
been thinking, and she wondered if haven't yet found a girl who can give
I could measure up to what her Iden me what I need in a
of a husband should best.
"Well, well, woll,” I said.
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