The Washington herald., 1907-02-10

her hands estatically. I've always
wanted 20 know
You'll never know / interrupted
shortly. how It looks 10 man to see
nice girl trying To be sporty. II gives
| him a nauseating sensation all over, just
/ as il would 70 see Maud Adams trying 90
/ play Zaza. or Ethel Barrymore doing
/ the cake walk. In q mans mind there
/ are two codes OF manners. the kind that
I amuses him in a woman and the kind he
admires ia her; the kind for his sis
! ter"
And the kind for the other fellows
| sister interposed Kitty. slyly.
! And" I pursued, pretending not to
/ notice her, 'there are two distinct kinds
/ Of women; the kind men amuse them
| selves with and the kind they marry.
/ the kind. like a mountain goat OF q bur
70. who can tread lightly and with a
/ sure foot the edge Of a precipice and the
/ crooked mountain path; and the other
/ kind, who can without tumDllng head
/ long OF running home scared and sorry.
| Besides. l added as ] noted Kitty's eye
! still fixed wisLfully upon her cocktail
/ glass. even when the amateur bohemian
succeeds ia her imitation, 1t is after all
4 only-an imitation. She looks about as
natural and fascinating in tinted hair
and "a worldly air as a man does in
and her efforts at being bIase and spicy
| ere so glsringly pathetic
And yet" interrupted Kitty how men
encourage herr
What put down my fork and stared
across the table.
a man" said Kitty jabbing an oyster
| yic1ously. will coax and coax = girl 10
do things she oughtn't 10 DO; 10 take a
glass OF wine. or cigarette, or TO kiss
him"
But he admires her all the more for
refusing him" 7 protested stouuy.
And then goes of 90 'the sir! around
the corner who doesn't refuse him. re-
torted Kitty, with a toss Of her picture
hat. It's deadly mOnOtoU0Us. she
sighed. being modest violet. when YOU
are dying for fun and excitement and
novelty. and-dnd all the men are round
the corner.
kitty" / demanded. severely, when
did this happen 10 you2'
"Oh, il happens" returned Kitty. snap
ping 2 bread stick spitefuliy, "to every
girl, when she gets weary of being re-
spected. and admired and left az home;
and when the incest man she knows sud-
denly forgets her for a girl with butter
coiOred hair and a pink chin. who does al
the things he declares are outrageous and
which he would have annihIated her for
doing. and
What man" broke in desperately.
It's al very we'll" interrupted Kitty,
waving her bread stick dramatically, ITO
say that men don't admire peroSide hair
. and open-w5rk stockings and peau DIS
] payne, and spicy manners. and violent pet
3 tiCoats. bUJ. if those things didn't at
tract them, the other sort Of girl would
? not waste Fer time tinting her hair aud
: her cheeks and freezing her ankles
/ Kitty. Kitty ] cried, tragieally,
| / you're upsetting all my theories and
| your cocktail. and you don't understand.
| Tinted hair and peaU d Espague and All
| those things may be fascinating in tlet~
| wgy-but they only go such a little way.
/ with the right sort OF man. And when
| / he has tired Of them, which he always
| does. what he wants IS not weak imi-
| tation Of what he has already had. bug 10
Il change. As long as he doesn't take life
| nor women seriously. he pursues the WOO
: man who doesn't take herself seriously
% But Ike tie cherry IN the cocktail,
4; though she may be allUTius, she isn't nee
!. essary u him nor
why interrupted Kitty. th0ughtfuIly,
do all the things that are not good Cor
!. you and are sure 10 disagree with you,
q [ have cherry i'm them.
Perhaps" I suggested. 'beca1se. Ike
~ the girl around the corner thev have
Z 10 be tinted Ira order 20 look wholesome.
= It's the trimmings tha- make Them fIs-
: cinating. like the pink sugar on the cake.
: And the pcau d EspagEe on Tie ruf-
: fies.' suggested Kitty.
And tie coloring in she ices
And the rouge and sTangIes on the
chorus girls
: And the calcium on the leading lady.
n And it does make them fascinating
D sighed Kitty.
I leaned back and lighted a cigarette
- 1T does" I agreed blowing q ring that
=. fiOated airily over the topmOst rose OF
: Kitty's hat If It's not put on too heav-
p iIy. But the trouble with the averaE e
- girl is. that when she goes i'm for bizarre
effects she is likely 10 overd0 them- ana
!, even a siren couldn't attract "a man il
- she sang too loud. He can forgive q
- woman more easily for a crime than f0l
4 making a spectacle of herself; he car
=, pardon her more quickly for a breach
49, of honor than for a breach Of etiquette
: and he can excuse her more readily fOl
n wiIifully treadiug on his heart than fO'
- treading on his sense Of the fitness O.
: things. When woman gets he- hal
- a little too yellow and her cheeks a lit
- tie too red and her manners a. Iittl
= too loud instead of being a viole
~ or peony she becomes d weird looking
= artificial flower like the Iurid cottJl
roses you see In the miliiner's window
Or"
1T didn't taste so bad" Interrupts
ne Kitty. pursuing up her lips and looking a
re me sweetly under her -wre2thed hat
e. "What?' I nearly dropped my cigar
m cite.
n THE cocktail" said Kitty, puttin
of down her empty glass.
Ell Kitty" 1 pleaded, who is the ma,
as who is responsible"
vo I told you said Kitty, WipiHg he
III lips daintily with her napkin. and care
ne fully avoiding NY eyes. that he was ia
lis incest man I know
" But you know so many incest ones,
at sighed.
is And he left me. pursued Kitty, shak
M ing her head, responsibility sitting in
nd corner an yesterday afternoon. while d
as talked to that h0rrid Blair girl, with tn
awful hair and"
IS why. / was there yesterday after
IN noon. I exclaimed, and 1 didn't Sc
IL. I anybody
a ~Of course. You didn't cried Kitty
D. scathiugly- You were too absorbed
be u, What was 1 doins2' I asked, helT
zee Iessly.
ed You were flirting with Miss Blair-th
Del whole afternoon" said Kitty. rising an
il turning her back ON me.
he But" I cried. in CONSERVATION as
We tucked Kittys boa under her chin,
\. loathe her Kitty. and yoJ know pei
n fectly well that ! only did # because 20
OF wouldn't
ed Il wonder" interrupted Kitty. coldl,
re- "why / don't feel that cocktail
at Don't you?" ] asked, tentatively
O. ttNr,t al s-tfI KITTY land f-fu