East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-18
SOME WISE AND
SOME OTHERWISE


keeper, that the Cupid Ten O'Clock
Club organized by the young women
of Enid, who pledged themselves to
give their beaux the swift wait at 10
o'clock, has come to an abrupt end.
1t seems that the bunch of Juliets.
when it came to show down, didn't
have the nerve to break away. Just
when the bung came out of the barrel
and the sweet talk was flowing along
as mellifluously as New Orleans mo-
lasses in June
at would have taken courage"
said the stenographer.
"Heroism," amended the book
keeper and as a discourager of matri
mony, it's the whole works. Think of
a fellow going to see his best girl,
with the full intention of asking her
to be his'n. He's in blue funk that
makes him wrap his legs around the
chair legs and the cold perspiration
break out all over him, and his
Adams apple swells up to the size of
a beer keg in his throat, but finally he
screws up his courage to the sticking
point, and begins-Miss Jones-Sally
Ann-May call you Sadie-perhaps
you have noticed that-er-er--
"And just then she chips in, so
sorry, Mr.. Smithers to interrupt you,
but it's 10 o'clock, and by the rules
of our union, we have to shut up
them
do you reckon that the man would
ever get back to the popping point
again under the circumstances? Not
in thousand years. You can't make
love to a girl with one eye on her to
see how she's taking it, and one eye
on the clock to see when your time
limit is up"
"Oh, l suppose there Will be draw
backs to it," replied the stenographer,
but any law that would fire out the
sitter at 10 o'clock would be hailed
with joy and gratitude by millions of
women who are beset with bores who
come and camp on their parlor
chairs until the very clock yawns in
their faces. \ woman may miss an
occasional proposal, and she would
miss a little of the society of the men
who entertain her, but think how
many weary hours she would miss
of the hours of those that afflict her.
"Many's the time when mans
squared himself before me, with his
/ feet against the radiator, and his legs
sticking out, and reeled off hour after
hour the tale of how fascinating and
handsome and wonderful he was, but
have felt like ringing up the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dumb
Beasts, and having him forcibly re-
moved. And l am not the only woman
who has suffered and been silent un-
der the visitations that seemed tc
stretch out to the crack of doom. But
most of us are fixed for the stayei
now. We have three chairs-one big
roomy and cushiony and comfy fol
the man we would like to have stay;
one a little stiffer and harder for the
man whom we wish to make mod
crate timed visit, and another chafl
that is so hard and angular that II
guaranteed to make corns and abra
sions in the course of 20 minutes
You don't believe, then, in lont
visits?"
"Nitsky," returned the stenogra
pher. Anybody can be chaffy for 81
minutes; few people can be enter
tanning for an hour, but it takes
spellbinder to even interest you TO
two hours steady conversation. Tn
most fascinating people, you will no
tice. are always on the wing. The
fire off a few pyrotechnics and skid
doc.
"A man never makes such a fright
full mistake as he does when he think
to charm a woman by turning on tn
tap of his small talk for two or thre
hours at stretch. BY the time h
goes, she is so limp and drowned OF
that she never wants to see hir
again"
, How long ought a man stay whe
he goes to call on girl?" asked tn
bookkeeper.
, We'll" replied the stenographe
the shorter his visits, the more al
xious she will be to have him repei
it, for l have observed that the le
people see of us, the more they admir-
u.s."