Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-12
YOUNG MEN AND IcE.cREAM HABIT.
Form subjects for an Interesting Debate
Young MaIders.

"Man Is n complex creature" sighed
the girl who was thinking of q post
graduate course at the university.
Il don't agree with you," replied the
girl who always spelled until with q
dodbieI Il always find him exceed
ingly simple.
"And how simple one has to be to
please him. groaned the girl with the
dimple in her chin.
doesn't one? | often think of Nav
ing all of my wisdom toeth out on pur-
pose
Whatever are you two talking about?:'
asked the girl who was thinking of taxi
ing apost-graduate course ut the uni
yersity.
Man, my dear; our proper study,
You know. And o. how much easier
life would be if only the comic paper
had not been invented
Laura. dear, if you would only keep
10 one subject at a time il. t."
20, Laura is all right" put in the girl
with the dimple in her chin. What
She means is this: Nine ont of every ten
men acquire what they think is a vast
amount Of knowledge concerning the
p~ecullarities of our sex through the fun
ny papers. o, it i true, Mary, though
you look SO incredulous; and the nearer
we approach 10 the humorist's ideal Of
us the more thoroughly the men think
they understand US, and, consequently,
the better they like us"
Well, | never.' said Mary in a faint
voice.
Yes. aud it is very trying to live up
to it, groaned the girl who always
spelled until with a double ]. Il take
ali the funny papers myself IN order to
keep up with the latest ideas-and very
expensive find il, too
Yes, and then one has TO pretend not
to understand the jokes" lamented the
girl with the dinple in her chin, when
I'm caught with one I always pretend
that I'm only looking at it for the sake
of the artistic gowns in the pictures.
But what | do hate worst IS the ice
cream joke.
The ice-cream joke?:7 faltered the
CIR who was thinking Of a post gradu-
ate course at the university.
"Mhm. There was u rich old bach
elor nj the place where | was staying
last summer who firmly believed that
all the girls would like to live exclusive
ly on ice-cream. The cream they made
there vas atrocious, yet | had to eat
plate after plate of il just to please him.
Ana did anything come
-NSAing. dear. He told me when
we parted that / had reminded him Of
al old love. Well, | shall be reminded
of him for a long time by the fearful
indigestion that tepid cream gave me.
20, well, perhaps next year"
"Never, Laura! l could not marry
him under false pretenses; think. o.,
think, Of having to eat three plates Of
cream every day in the year."
Laura shuddercd. still | shall al
ways have to pretend to be afraid of
mice and to love big dogs"
"Poor dear. Did l tell you what a
comical experience | had in the train
Monday morning? No? Well. | had
been staying a day or two at Winnetka
with Inc and coming in | bought q
magazine. | had my embroidery scis-
sors in my bag aud while | was getting
them out / heard an old gentleman in
the seat in front of me whisper to his
nclgnDOT: see III Sne uoesn Use one
now!' OF course, of course was the
reply
"Did they mean a hairpin?' asked the
girl who was thinking OF a post gradu-
ate course at the university.
certainly, what elseP And you
should have seen their look of disap-
pointment when | :egan to cut the
leaves with the scissors!
"Humph! did they think you could af-
ford to use real tortoi,e-shell hairpins
for such a purpose when they are so ex-
pensive and SO fragile!' cried the girl
who always spells until with a double !.
Il shall after this, for that old mans
look OF despair will haunt me to my dy-
ing day-and he talked about the Now
Woman all the way into town.