The Washington herald., 1907-04-07

For sheer obstinacy." remarked Kitty,
hinging her hat down on the divan and
herself petulantly into an armchair. give
me a manr
I've offered you one" I suggested,
several times but You always je-
fuse"
"oh. you" broke In Kitty. suddenly
picking up her hat again ard rearrang-
ing wreath of pansies on its brim with
elaborate care. You aren't obstinate.
You're Just strong-rninded, you know, and
sometimes a little strong-willed, but-but
that's all"
I shield mean I dropped my cigarette
What was Il somebody said about fear
ing the Greeks most when they offer
gifts?
It's Bobby Hartley" went on Kitty.
Il asked him to do something for me.
and-he won't. Fifty years ago" she
added, with sigh. "a girl had merely to
pout, or cry, or faint, in order TO get any
thing she wanted: but now
"she has 10 bully and blufr and fat
ter. 1 declared.
And even then" persisted Kitty. sadly.
ITS harder TO get around the average
man than 10 get around Cape Horn, or
the truth, or the Pacific Ocean Tears
don't move a man any more-eXeept 10
move him out OF reach. They've gone
out OF fashion. ike eorkscrew curis and
pantalettes. and ali the other delightful
feminine folliest'
They've been battered out, I re-
marked putting my cigarette and watch
ing the smoke curl round Kittys pompa-
dour. by golf sticks and higher educa.
ton and womens clubs and feminine
franchise and"
by man. himselfn cried Kitty. rising
In her wrath and waving the pansy hat
excltedly. Don't you suppose we'd keep
on crying for things il we could get
them that way? It would be lots easier
than working for them or voting for
them or"
But" I protested, ''the fact remains
that girls don't cry any more; neither do
they blush
Don't they?" broke in Kitty, hinging
down her hat and springing up TO pace
the floor. Don't they? Why? Because
they don't bring their tears into the
drawing room and spill them on the par
lor carpet or drop them on your coat
lapel or into the soup at dinner or the
coffee at breakfast"
I held up my hands in protest. and
Kitty sank back into the armchair and
a semblance Of calm.
When a modern girl wants 10 cry.
she continued, tanning herself with her
hat. "she slips OF into the pantry or the
bathroom and sheds her tears amid the
soap ana the t0othbFushss. where she can
do It comfortably without annoying any
/ body. She never cries for effect. because
she knows that the only effect tears have
on the average man is 10 dampen his
ardor and wet his enthusiasm and drive
him on out OF reach Of their shower-to
another girl with q nice, dry, sunny
smile"
ron. don't know" I retorted noncha-
lantly. Ticking the ashes from my cigar
cite,
"of course you would" exclaimed
Kitty.
The first tine ever saw a pretty girl
I cry I would have done anything on earth
/ she asked, from blaczing her shoes to
killing Indians, to stop those tears.
ITO step them! But suppose she had
done Il again
/ 'fOh. well.' I protested
And again
WHAT Three timesi'
/ And againl" persisted Kitty. It's not
+ tears, but the first tear that affects q
man. If ne loves you he will do almost
anything to please you the first time he
! sees you cry; but by the time he has
witnessed cry No. he viii begin to looh
upon your briny sorrow as a mere stunt,
and to wonder why your nose gets so red
and your eyes so swollen. and why you
I go TO so much trouble 10 make yourseli
hideous A teary woman is ike rainy
weather: you can stand her for a while
/ but If she keeps up long enough she il
sure TO give you the blues or TO drive you
/ TO seek q change Of feminine atmosphere
| Nowadays people travel around the world
/ in search Of sunny weather. They go L
/ comedies instead OF tragedies. and read
/ joke books instead Of melancholy poets
It's the sunny side Of the street and tht
sunny side of life and the sunny side Of
a woman that attracts a man. She can't
weep her way round him. nor bully hel
/ way round him. nor argue her way
round him; but she can smile her way
I straight through him"