Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-03
HAD THOUGHT 1T ALL OUT.
The Blonde and Brunette on How to Keep
Mans Affections.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The blonde said TO the brunette: "Why is it
that the newspapers are always asking how to
retain the affections of man, and what woman
looks best in bathing?''
And the brunette answered: SWELL l sup
pose it is because those two questions are of
the most interest to mankind, newspapers
are written for them"
II think" said the blonde. and really. when
you looked at the shape of her head, you
credited her with some thinking power. Il
think it is because as a nation we American
women are not affectionate. An American
man doesn't want violent yelling, passionate
love that throws the furniture out OF the win
dow because he has looked at another woman.
such love as an Italian would give him, nor
does he particularly yearn for the sleek, cat-like
appreciation of the French woman. who is
carrying on another affair at the same time.
but what he likes is affection. He likes to come
home and be called dear Over a pleasant
little dinner, when they are by themselves. and
when the maid has gone out TO get the salad,
he likes his wife to jump up and kiss him and
tell him how much the oldest boy, who If the
haEdsomest of the lot. looks like him. He
likes to be made much of: he likes to have a
sort of Il m-,nonarch-o of -all-I-survey' feeling.
and wonder more American women dom
give it to him, for little goes such a great
ways with him. Now. the Englishman is en-
tirely different; it is my house. my children
and my wife, and if nv wife dares to think
there's any man in the world as great n he is
she is pretty apt to get that idea knocked out
of her either mentally or physically. loa say
sometimes a woman don't feel like this-well, it
is her business to-
Yes said the brunette, "you have a way of
thinking out things which somehow never comes
tn m tlOnOh | /
something about the girls who battle. As soon as
wo an gets to weigh about 80, with the greater
part of her flesh distributed abo.t her waist
she thinks she is in fit condition to exhibit her
figure in a close-titting bathing suit for the
delectation of the numerous lockers on. Now.
she has just reached the time when she ought
to stay out. The girl who looks her best is the
one who is rather slender, but well shaped. and
who, when she gets into the pillows, can ride
| around like a mermaid Of old until every man
on the land wishes he was like the happy sailor
Of the DAYS Of yore, who was married to q
mermaid in the bottom Of the deep blue sea-
Ladies who are inclined to q redundancy Of
flesh, for that is what they like it to be called,
come out very badly in the water. They want
| to do their swimming in their own special tubs
| slender girl By the by. though. why 10 the
| slender girl fashionable?''
:.well,' said the blonde, 'sthe men prefer
her. The worst thing they can compare her
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popotamus or elephant. or suggest throwing
dice on her corsage when she 10 spoken Of
Then che has quiet way Of walking around,
and q man doesn't like . woman to bring down
| her foot SO that she shakes the whole house
You remember one Of the charms of Nellie
| BLY, in the old plantation song was that after
| she lifted her foot and put it down there was
music in the special part Of town she elected
| to walk in. Then, too. it il bit difficult for
stout woman to cuddle. and il there is any
thing above all other things, even IL he IL ss9
years old and weighs o ton, that man likes,
it's to be treated as il he we're small boy and
pstted and approved of. There Il no doubt
about il that, though fashions may come and
C, the slender girl win always remain in vogue.
Though. by the by, she mustn't be too tall,
for man hasn't half lived his life unless he "a
call the woman be il fond Of little Queer,
isn't it2''
The woman who had been listening 70 this
looked at them - they sauntered Oh, and saw
that each IVES Just the right height and Just the
right slsndernsss, and she couldn't resist think
ing TO hersslf, sWhen women thoroughly nm
derstand thsmssavss and thsir strength, what
powers they win b In war, IN love = ~ eon-
bination Of love and wss.