The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-02
TIE EVENING STORY


/ much we never could DeileNe MN. Il
| turned out that it meant fellow VINO
hadn't any use for girls. Well, .ou
/ bet Immensely hadn't.
He used to tell us that he had been
all through the mill and he knew
what they were. Well, I don't know
what the mill was that he went
through exactly, but he knew all about
women. We all boarded at the same
place, you know-Mrs. Stigmans-
and there we're some women there
boarding
There was Miss Pentwen. She was
a stenographer in the claim depart
ment at MoseIey's. She used to sit out
/ on the steps sometimes. Some OF the
! rest Of us used to sit with her ana
/ josh her and all that until Immensely
came and told us about what a mis-
ogynist was and why every fellow
4 ought to be misOgynlst- Then We
sort of quit her cold. heard her
laughing about it once, and asking
4 Mrs. Stigmans if she ever saw such a
Jerry and Jim Scott and me. I don't
suppose she could have meant I'M
monsley.
when en- toid him. sThey always are
when they don't get the attention their
vanity Graves. Strange creatures he
says.
1 asked him what he thought about
her once, and he saws: ITO tell the
truth I've not noticed her. I WILL
though, if you want to know. There are
just two or three types of them any
way, and I can tell at glance which
She belongs to-
He probably gave her a glance soon
after that. "A pretty, doll-faced little
thing. that Miss Pentwell," he said.
Frivolous of course. Fond of admira-
ton. Shallow of intellect Easily fiat
/ tered She's the kind of woman most
men would call attractive. I suppose
you think she is
said, "Oh, not particularly. / guess
there's good deal of truth in what
you say. They're all pretty much
alike" ] was feeling a little sore about
being called an infant. I'm no kid.
you're finding it out, are you?" says
Immensely. well, it viii take you
some time. but the sooner you get
through with 'em the better. Woman,
Pipton my boy, IS harmless to the man
who knows her She's only dangerous
ito the Inexperienced 1 can see right
/ through their little airs and graces and
their little schemes. There was time
when they rather interested me, but
they don't any longer. I'd sooner play
/ good game of pin-pool than talk to
| the smartest and SWEETEST and best
! looking woman you could bring me-
When they're smart they aren't 50
darned smart. They haven't any sense
! of humor. They haven't any reason
only instinct. They don't know man
when they see one. Any sort of glitter
and show catches them. See the way
] they dress. Always pilHlplHS anu AlA-
/ ing and fussing over thelnselVes-poW
/ dering and painting and pertaining.
He took another glance at Miss
/ Pentwen a day or two after that at
the supper table. I saw him, SO Ihats
/ why I know. She sort of caught MS
eye and half smiled and Immonsley
get as red as the picked beets and
] looked down at his plate. He didn't
raise his eyes again until after she had
/ left the table. I asked him what he
was blushing about and he turned on
me cutie short and asked me what the
dickens I meant Then he said he
wasn't blushing, but he had put too
| much tabasco on his stew
/ All the same, it wasn't long before
he was sitting out on the steps with
her. He said he hadn't anything to do
that evening and it was too hot to sit
in his room. 1t was rather bore
having her there, but he was
philosopher.
fng-and he was fixing his tie before the
! glass. I went out again and came
back in about half an hour and he was
still fixing his tie, only it was another
kind of tie. 1 told him 1 thought he
was taking a long time. He said,
Somehow 1 can't get the blamed
thing tied to suit me. How do you
think that looks ?"
] said it looked all right. and he
took another look in the glass and
then put on his coat and went down
and sat on the steps. Miss Pentwell
was there. too.
[ smelled cologne on his handker-
chief not long after that. I didn't say
ANYTHING though. But say, If that
fellow didn't begin to wear his best
clothes every evening to sit on the
! porch. It was fiercei
+ Jerry and men tried to josh him one
t evening, but he was ugly Jim Scott
said women are pretty bum lot
aren't they. old man?
you are a pretty coarse cub said
\ Immensely, and there was pretty near
a fight. He said to me afterward: I
never did like to hear a fellow slam
ming women" Wouldn't that cork
you, so to speak
I Sometimes they sat out there on the
/ steps until 10 o'clock. used to hear
Miss Pentweil laughing a good deal;
/ Immensely was never much ola hand
1 to Joke. so wondered what the fun was,
but I never sat out with them. nor the
/ other fellows didn' Except one night
we did for a jOke-because Immensely
seemed to get sore directly
/ Well one night Miss PentWell laugh
| ed like all get out. She just shrieked.
And I was going out to see what had
broke loose when Immensely pushed
by me in the hall, went up stairs three
went out and Miss Pentwen was
still giggling, but she stopped when she
@Can I sit down by you p says.
yes she says. 'if you win promise
to propose to me. Oh, these childrent
I These children
She amt more than %, or so herself.
She makes me tired.
But Immensely is just as sarcastic
about the women as ever. He doesn't
even speak to Miss Pentwell and I
thought he was going to end up by l1k-
/ ing her.-ChicagO News.
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A mans good intentions seldom add
| to his income.