Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-15

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misogynist. We had to ask him what
that was at last. 1t puzzled US for
some time. Jerry Hogan said it was
something you took a course of at the
Lewis institute and that a cousin of
his was making big money at it in
Seattle, but then jerry lied SO much
we never could believe him. 1t turned
out that it meant a fellow who hadn't
any use for girls. Well. you bet I'm
monsley hadn't.
He used to tell us that he had been
all through the mill and he knew what
they were. Chifln asked him IL it
was because he saw so much of them
in the dry goods Store where he used
to clerk and Immensely got kind Of
mad. He's in a brokers' Office in La
Sale street now and I guess he doesn't
like to talk about the time he measured
tape that didn't come out of a ticker.
Well, | don't know what the mill
was he vent through exactly, but he
knew all about women We all board.
ed at the same place, you know-Mrs.
Stigmans'-and there were some wom-
en- there boarding.
There was Miss Pentwell. She was
a stenographer in the claim depart
ment at Moseley's. She used to sit out
on the steps sometimes. Some of the
rest of us used to sit with her and josh
her and all that, until Immensely came
and told us about what a misogynist
was and why every fellow ought to be
a m~isogynist. Then we sort of quit
her cold. heard her laughing about
it once and asking Mrs. Stigmans If
she ever saw such a ridiculous set Of
Misunderstanding Jerry and Jim Scott
and me. l don't suppose she could
have meant Immensely.
"She's ~piqued," Immensely said,
when l told him. "They always are
when they don't get the attention
their vanity Graves. Strange crea-
tures!" he says. .
asked him what he thought about
her once, and he says: ITO tell the
truth, I've not noticed her. will.
though, If you want to know. There
are just two or three types of them,
dnyWdy, anu 1 cdu Tell a. u Biatico
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 adj
miration. Shallow of intellect. Easily
fiattered. She's the kind Of woman
most men would call attractive. T.
suppose you think she is"
l said: ooh, not particularly. I
guess there's a good deal of truth in
what you say. They're all pretty much
alike" l was feeling a little ore
about being called an infant. I'm no
kid.
He took another glance at Miss
Pentwell a day or two after that at the
supper table. l saw him, SO that's
why l know. She sort of caught mis-
eye and half smiled and Immensely
got 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. / asked him what
he was blushing about and he turned
or ne quite short and asked me what
the dickens l meant. 1
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 not
to sit in his room. 1t was rather al
bore having her there, but he was a
philosopher.
Then | went into his room one even,
ing and he was fixing his tie before
the glass. / 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. ! told him II
thought he was taking a long time. He
said: Somehow, l can't get the blamed !
thing tied to suit me. How do you
think that looks?"
l 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-j
chief not long after that. I didn't say1
anything, though. But, say, If that
fellow didn't begin to wear his besti
clothes every evening to sit on the
porch. 1t was fierce!
Jerry and me tried to josh him one
evening, but he was ugly. Jim Scott
said: Women are a pretty bum lot,
aren't they, old MANI"
"You are a pretty coarse cub" said
Immensely, and there was pretty near
a fight. He said to me afterward: I'll
v did like to hear a fellow Slam
ming women" Wouldn't that cork
you, SO to speak?
Sometimes they sat out there on theI
steps until ten O'Clock. l used to hear
Miss Pentwell laughing a good deal.
immohsley was never much of a hand
to joke, so I wondered what the fun
was, but / never sat out with them,
nor the other fellows didn't-excepti
one night we did it for a josh-De-j
cause Immensely seemed to get Sore
directly.
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