Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1907-11-14
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The Amateur Socioiogist
Reports on His Investigations.

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male pieces of work in the novels had
always impressed me as being gro
tesquely overdrawn. I could not pic
ture the lovely young male pieces Of
works saying such things to girls
who were not insane.
$50 I instituted such quiet inquiries
among my married friends for the
purpose of ascertaining whether any
Of these idiotic manifestations had
happened to them at their mating
time. I am giving you the result of
| these investigations.
THE first man I tackled was the
head clerk in a crockery store and
he'd been going with the girl for
year and a half when it happened
One Sunday afternoon he took walk
with her.
'Aggie,' he said to her after they'd
been looking at some marked down
refrigerators in a furniture store win
dow, the old man boosted my pay to
30 week last night. Guess we ought
to be able to scrabble along on 80
week, hadn't we?'
WELL GHOulu ody, w o A6SlC
offhand reply. There are thousands
of folks in New York who live mighty
comfortably on half of 80 a week,
and
And the date of that wedding was
| Immediately arranged.
Next man, clerk in an insurance Of
flee, had been going with her for
about eight months. There were two
or three others in the field against
him, but he was game enough to take
| gamblers chance. They were at
show one night and between the first
and second acts he leaned over to her
| and said
"'Say, Hazel, where do stand with
| you, anyhow
Now, pul-lease, Jim, don't get SEN
| timental,' she replied.
"'But, Hazel he persisted I'm get
| ting pretty anxious to find out, you
know. l don't know now whether I'm
aces or an also ran.
ooh, don't know that you have
any occasion to worry was her re-
| ply, and that, of course, was enough
for him. The date was fixed couple
| of evenings later.
| Third friend of mine whom
| tackled on this investigation was
| shorthand man in brokers' office,
! and he'd been calling on her about
| three times week, taking her out,
too, with considerable regularity, for
period covering about year. One
evening he was sitting on the front
| steps with her when she said to him:
"'Say, Charlie, guess who ran away
! and got married last week? Edith
| Startsomething!'
THAT SOP said he. Well, say,
| Ethel, how good ON the run are
| you?
Thus it was fixed.
My fourth informant was a young
| lawyer-briefess at that--whod been
| a frequent caller at the home of q
wealthy girl for two years. Good
| looking chap, and the girl was there
with the looks, too, in addition to hav-
ing the coin. One night they formed
part of chaperoned box party at a
| play. The play was about family
| suddenly plunged from wealth to pow
erty.
"'D'ye know, Kate, he'd said to
her. without desiring to appear mean
| or cruel, | wish something of that
sort would happen to you.
What very friendly WISH! was
| her reply. Why, pray?' she added, al
| though, of course, she understood him
| perfectly well.
| Because, then, my DEAR, he very
| quickly made answer. i wouldn't feel
| like such an Internal muff if | asked
| you to share the little have with
| me-
30, is that it,? she inquired, gazing
tenderly into his eyes. Well, you
know very we'll, Ed; that / should
never consider you muff under any
circumstances. no matter what you
| did; and it is mean of you to re-
proach me for not being poor. l can't
| help it, can ~
This looked good enough to my
| friend the young lawyer, and 1t was.
! They'd decided upon the date before
the end of that week.
| Fifth man | asked was another
| lawyer, and he'd been calling and
| sending her candy and flowers and
taking her out right often for nearly
| twelvemonth. One evening they
| were taking a car ride when they
passed tidy apartment house in
course of construction and nearly COM
| pleted.
"'Saw the plans of those flats a
| few days ago. he said to her non
chalantly. They're daisies-best ar
ranged ever saw. Burlap walls and
| all that Mighty cheap at that-only
| $50 a month for the best of EN-, and
| there is an elevator, too.
"I just love red burlap for the din.
ing room of a fiat, don't your was
her reply.
"That was good enough for him.
and he filed his caveat then and
| there.
Il think" concluded the amateur
sociologist, that these few random
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