The Washington herald., 1907-05-05

ing Of individuals. I'm merely making
observations on the passing crowd one
sees In the street and I say the Wash
iugton girl walks best She swings along.
shoulders square, and head erect. she
! looks as u her shoes We're comfortable
ana her hat pins weren't pulling any
where. she looks as II she walked be-
cause she wanted 10 get somewhere. She
/ looks as If she-wen, as II she had been
brought up 70 walk, and did # as un-
consciously and easily as a bird flies"
While we are talking about New Or
leans. ] must tell you Of the Indignation
a woman who has just returned from
there expressed the other day.
i didn't believe Southern men would
let themselves be sIandered without pro-
test, said she Z didn't believe the sen
timent Of any Southern community would
tolerate such an outrageous thing as /
saw in Newf orleans. Don't talk TO me
about nre-eatiug SOutherners. On the
wall OF building down there I saw
something that would mean death to
somebody even In Boston. Il was a sen
tence painted In coarse. crude letters. and
II read, 'So-and-So has wrecked more
homes than any man in the South Peo-
pie Just grinned when they passed Il, but
fancy how So-aud-SOs family must have
felt Think of being connected with a
man who'd let a thing like that be said
about him and not shed somebody's biood
on account of IL, Why ! don't believe
the modern Southerner has the spirit Of a
rabbit"
I don't know what discouraging opinion
her hearers would have formed Of the
South IL a New Orleans man hadn't hap
pened TO be IN the party.
The name you read was 'Such-a-One. q
wasn't it?' he asked
Yes, answered the scandaIized visitor
10 the Crescent city.
on, well" said the New Orleans man.
what they say OF him is true He's
rather proud Of 1t, but he didn't count on
the-er-the Northern sense Of humor.
Taking down old buildings is his trade.
He's a professional wrecker."
/ have always imagined that a lack of
similarity IN the sense Of humor was the
rock on which most marriages split. but
I'm not sure that the sense Of smell
hasn't quite as much 10 do with natri-
monial unhappiness. There's Julia, for
example Julia and Ben were married
two months ago. and on Bens birthday
julia asked few friends to dinner In
the center of the table she set bowl of
fiowers-I forget precisely what they
were. but ! think they were jonquils or
narcissi Bob was as cross as could be
during dinner Afterward. when he'd
gone into the library with the rest of the
company, and Julia had brought the bowl
OF flowers in TO brighten things up, he
was positively insulting 10 his guests
Juiias spirits went lower and lower
am quite sure she began to think OF
Harry 20 whom she was engaged before
she met Bob Harry was always so good
natured and polite 10 everybody. ana Bob
just sat there and snapped his guests
heads off one by one. They didn't stay
long after dinner. and Bob merely grow,I-
ed out his good-nights. BY this time
Julia perceived that giving I'D Harry had
been the tragic mistake Of her life She
even thought of going home to her
mother. When the last uncomfortable
guest had departed. she was on the point
Of speaking her mind TO Bob. lie 1ung
the windows open before she could formu-
late her reproaches IN sufficiently cutting
words
We'll. I hope youIl never ask those
two men here again" he snorted. IT you
do. I'm going to the club"
What have you against them?" Julia
demanded. stonily
Good heavens said Bob. haven't
you a nose? Blinks had automobile oil all
over him. OF Spinks had been curTying his
own horse, I'm not sure which Maybe it
was both. They're not fit TO come into
decent peoples houses.
He turned toward the center table and
smelled the odor of the flowers
Great land!" he said. "Of all the fool
tricks It's those beastly dowersl You've
made NE be rude 10 two of my best
friends all evening just because you
can't You get flowers that don't drive me
out Of the house? Can't you" but
there! ! needn't go on. He wounded Julia's
most sensitive feelings, and with feelings
on one side and an eccentric nose on the
other-wen, it was their first quarrel. In
compatibility OF Olfactory nerves has Gre
ated a breach that nothing can heal Julia
will never forgive him. She told him she
would, apd he said he was sorry, hut that
makes no difference. People can't be one
in essence unless the essence smells alike
to them both.