Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-20

Id u N'"'i''i' ill'l' you are. come iltIc
SysT1,s moment, will you, please? have
IES9kss9I something to tell vou'
N'iNA'u~ The floor walker sauntcred up slowly,
and rested his arms on the showcase
What is it now? It seems to me you-"
ooh, well, of course she interrupted him, 'if
you don't care to listen, all right"
''Well, you see | had to 20 to the front this
morning"
why, what happened?" she cried, inauisitive.
! ly. You're not going TO lose your Job, are you?'
! mo, but | was told that I was to pay morC
attention to my work, and to let garruous won.
en- alone" he said, with meaning emphasis.
Well they certainly couldn't have meant
me-" The floor walker made no reply. "Why,
do you think [ talk too much? OF all the in.
gratitude! When | was trying to be so nice
to him, tool
I'm not ungrateful," the floor walker made
haste to assure her. But you know you mustn't
be SO nice to me that you'll make me lose my
job"
q just thought you said the store couldn't
be without you?' she asked mischievously.
"Oh, of course know their business would be
ruined if they fired me, but the trouble is, they
don't know it,"
II see But about this garruious busness-you
don't really think I'm garrulous, do you?"
well, you do talk good deal" the floor walk
er admitted. And | suppose you know that
men as rule-as rule, l say-don't like gar
ruous women?
"Why don't they? They're pretty entertain
ing sometimes, l think"
$50 they are-sometmes,' he replied. But it's
very wearing on a mans to have to live
with a chatterbox When he comes home at
night with headache, he wants some peace and
comfort. He doesn't want to have to sit up and
listen to hgh-ptched monologue when his head
is throbbing he hardly see He doesn't
want to take chatterboX to the theatre, either,
because when he has spent out his good money for
tba ha
''But sometimes if you don't know the girl
very we' objected the girl behind the counter,
"and if you have consequently not much to talk
about, it is real comfort to discover that the
girl is chatterbox."
eyes, I'll agree with you there. She is a
comfort-provided you don't know her too WELL"
replied the floor walker.
"But lots of men taken with these pretty
talkative, entertaining girls, persisted the girl be-
hind the counter
DEVELOPS INTO THE NAGGER
eyes, and the more fools they, for the talkaiyc
girl often develops into the nagging shrewish
woman. You see by the time she gets to be
forty, she has fallen so much in love with the
sound of her own voice that she can't be con
tented any with legitimate uses for it, but
must needs use it illegtimately. No. men can
not stand for the that talks all the time,
and tells all her private affairs to everybody she
meets
''Oh, no, that's ridiculous. But don't you think
it's all right to have particular frend-just
one girl to tell your troubles to?" she asked 1T
really is great relief sometimes to get things
off your mind"
"What's the of getting things off your
mind? Men not afflicted that way-as a
rule"
There you are!' she cried, catching him up.
Gas rule! I knew two brothers once who lay
awake all night to talk over their love affairs"
"Yes, but you must acknowledge that such a
thing is the exception, and not the rule. Men
generally detest conidants and even the very
idea of conhdants. A friend of mine got engaged
to girl one time, and the first thing he said to
her after he had been duly accepted was, who
is your girl confidant% Another man / know
asked his sweetheart, favor to him, to give
up her chum. Men afraid of these confdants,
I tell you, and would rather have any number of
rivals around than one female conhdant."
''Why, l didn't know that" she exclaimed in
surprise. 81 can see how after marriage man
would naturally object to his wife's having con-
tidant, but not how he would object to one be-
fore"