Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-10-25
HIS ATTACK OF DISGUST.
He Was Not Puritan But He Objected
 to some Things.

He Was Not a Puritan But He Objected
 to some Things.
 - am not at home at this hour of the morning." she said in surprise, us she saw him standing in the door
 That is why l came. l wanted to see you alone and to rail at things with no other idiot to contradict me"
 '.You need a change of air." she said, as she pulled her sleeves further down over her arms and glanced over the room, the toilette of which was in tine initials. She was polishing the tea kettle and the cups were all awry.
 .sThat is most unfattering, my dear girl. To tell man he needs change is the 'retort courteous and implies that he is dull company. It is like mother apologizing for the hideous screaming of her infant by saying it is teething. | have no patience with people who think i'll health sufficient excuse for rude ness"
 Dear me, you are in a bad way, she said, as she spread out her pretty apron, with its ribbon bows,which she wore to protect her gown. "Is it the liver or are you falling in loye?'
 ..I have been out of town for few days" he said Went for the ceremo- nies at the Blankton club"
 "Yes," she said, with that intuitive sympathy that womanly women possess.
 I'm not very much of purtan,a he continued.
 She raised the kettle on level with her face-perhaps to see her own pretty reflection, perhaps to conceal smile.
 "I am rather what is called broad minded about women. l have no ob- jection to a woman smoking if she likes, provided she does so where she says her prayers and wears her dressing-gown- in the privacy of her boudor,
 "I have no objection to a woman spelling her soup with a cocktail. if she wants to. Though I must confess l was disenehanted with a woman who en- tered a cafe yesterday. I admired her extravagantly until she took off her gloves with sans-gene swagger and said to her escort; I want a cocktail and I want it quick
 "She could have allowed him to order it in low tone and to intimate to the waiter it would be worth his while to hurry it. But when I see a silly youth insisting on q woman drinking too much at public reception I lose my temper entirely"
 With the woman or him?" she asked.
 "Well, with both Of course, it is partly her fault, but man is her natural protector and women fall when there is no strength in men, you know.
 T came through the reading-room and found young idiot insisting that the little Blanlford girl should drink another glass of punch. That clubs punch has gone down to history, you know, and I would not like to drinl, much of it myself. Fancy the effect it had on a subdebutant. She looked as pretty as possible in her white gown, with violets. lire eyes were like stars and her cheeks crimson. But soon she would have grown disgusting.
 ''1 had to take her away and waste an hour or so on her. And after talking to little creature of that kind for such length of time ones mental faculties are as. numbed as ones legs are after one has sat in a seat at the theater that is too close to the TOW in front.
 So looked you up this morning te go through some mental gymnastics so to speak, before Isventure to take uT my work. ."-N. Y, Telegram.