The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
THE EVENING STORY
A GIRLS DIARY.

A GIRLS DIARY.
Tuesday night-This is the last. It is
all over. 1 wonder if he thinks because
like him he can treat me this way.
And don't--I hate him. Dick Wells
never did such thing in his life. I'm
less you can rely on a man
1t isn't the first time, either. oh, I
was silly to forgive him before-Silly,
silly. But now have had the exper-
fence and if he thinks I will accept ex-
cuses again-just because he knows
girls like hinl-and no wonder, with
Beth and Sue and that Allan creature
going crazy over him-but I'll show
him that there is one who has little
independence. Dick Wells is worth a
million of him, anyway.
know just how he will do it. Not
like Billy Bolton, who loaded me up
with roses because he didn't come one
night. I was really quite relieved when
Billy didn't come and went to bed with
out giving it a thought and wouldn't
Jack doesn't do things in that clumsy
way, which you can see right through.
He will just arrive perfectly naturally
tomorrow night and if say things he'll
be terribly surprised. He'll ask how
could 1 believe anything but urgent
business could keep him away. And the
first thing 1 know I'll be feeling quite
| apologize for expecting him to explain
at all.
L
thinks it is going to be easy as last time
| he is sadly mistaken. Why, found out
afterward that it wasn't business at all
that is, after 10 o'clock. He had stop
ped to see that Allan girl. OF course I
know that the Allan creature positive
ly lies in wait on their front porch and
if any one so much as stops a minute
to be polite she actually chains him
| down. But that's no excuse at all. Beth
saw him, absolutely saw him, eating
sandwiches at 1890. Think of a girl
having to feed a man to make him
stayi And he actually dared to tell me
| that she has beautiful eyes. The way
| she works them is sickening. And there
I had been waiting till II o'clock. With
coffee, too, and that perfect creamed
| lobster
And again tonight. I could cry! If
1 only hadn't dressed! Women are
terrible gown because he likes white
l never shall do it again, never. And
I worked for hours over my nails and
nair, all the time dying with the heat
just to sit alone all evening. And
father laughed at me an dthat Allan
creature probably was feeding him
| sandwiches.
1 suppose he thinks he can come
tomorrow night. I won't see him. I'll
go out. I'll call up Al Vance this very
minute and let him take me to the
theater. Jack knows that I like AL
too. I've told him enough times. We
will be starting for the theater just as
he arrives. Men hate that, even il
Jack is exasperating and won't let me
see it. That will show him how much
I care. I don't care, 1 don't.
Well, if I'm going to be silly and get
my diary all wet and blotty I might
as well stop trying to write things.
Wednesday night-Oh, deari hope
| Al won't mind. OF course 1t was really
| a nraViOTIS T11enf hae4ISn when
Jack didn't come last night knew
| perfectly well he would come tonight
know 1 should have gone with Al
theater tickets bought and everything
It's just because I am SO queer.
Dick Wells says self-analysis doesn't
| pay. He says the answer is too likely
to come out that you are a bigger i'm
beetle than you previously supposed.
didn't listen much then. I thought
he was too deep. But you always see
what Dick means after while.
! I was SO terribly angry last night
And didn't mean to forgive him. But
when L saw him coming up the walk
| everything simply melted. Things dc
melt with him somehow. And it's easy
| to snub other men. He wouldn't be
snubbed if I tried, and the cool way he
| does things, asking Al what the suit OF
mail meant and dropping into chair as
naturally as if I had sent him an en-
graved invitation to come that evening
And poor AL in his dress clothes and
two lovely seats and the carriage due
any minute. It was dreadful.
I'll call Al up in the morning. / hope
| can make him see that one must keeI
previous engagements, even if one has
| to give up beautiful theaters that are
so much more fun. I think I can make
| AL see. l simply couldn't lose AL. He is
so handy and good, too, I really should
have gone with Al.
I don't care. I had a beautiful time
| And 1 would have been miserable at the
| theater. / had been miserable all day
and seeing him come up the walk
He explained things, of course. II
was business. He said he knew I re-
allied when he didn't come that it mus
| be business. He hasn't seen the Altar
girl for weeks.
was unreasonable last night. AnC
I've had such a perfect evening. In
so glad I forgave hinl-only I wish i
| wasn't always so easy for me to for
give everything he does.--Chicago News
Big Day for Rattlesnakes.