The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-28
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she can mix the batter with her eyes shut She says nobody ever taught her: she just eknowed how and then done it. And she scorns ? cook book as Cleopatra or Mime. Du Barry Wou'o have scorned Lexicon Of Love or treatise on the art Of manaslns . man." tss
 And" I hazarded, 'Tii wager that. like love. the oftener she makes them the better she. does itF
 "Of course. assented Kitty Ana she says she began making them when she was old enough to hold pan
 we all begin in the kindergsrten, T averred. certingly. ~ knack" xtammered. "we begin by writing Valentines and hanging May baskets and playing kissing games and cutting our initials on the trees inside A heart, and finish---- sss
 We never fnish,' broke in Kitty, If we attain any--any success.
 what" I exclaimed. aeDon't you ever expect to stop, - Not, announced Kitty. uanquiny. until my grandchi1dren refuse 10 Do made love to-" ~t.. l
 win you please explafn-- E "You can't explain It." declared Kitty, any more than you canF&xplain way all the ,cieyerest men set the woret bargains in wives and all the most beautiful women marry wretchedIy. or why a red headed girl with tur1ed- up nose and freckles and a hgure Hke barber's pole can fascinate every man .I, she meets, while another woman with "a Greek profile and Sthe lines of the Venus of Milo sits alone in the parlor every evening doing fancy work.
 or" I appended, why a man with the head of an Adonis and the brains of an Aristotle Is thrown over by the girl he loves for some little runt with crooked legs and an insinuating man ner and the facility for saying senti- mental things to a woman
 And plenty of practice in courtship,"
 "Yet," I unused. nicking my cane thoughtfully. the Chicago professor proposes to teach men and women how to understand one another"
 That s the~saddest and funniest part of itr replied Kitty, with little gurgle.
 How can 1t be sad and funny at the same timer demanded.
 Don't you see," cried Kitty. how sad 1t will be for the man and how funny 1t will be for other people when he wakes up?"
 When he--what?'
 "oh. pshaw" exclaimed Kitty impa- tiently. "no man ever finds out how little he knows about women until he marries one of them. And the most awful mistake he can make Is to so headlong into matrimony, believing he really understands the seS and totally unprepared for the surprises in store for him. There are just as many kinds of women as there are kinds of wealth CT, and every woman has as many phases assan April day. There's noth' ing so disappointing as going to sleep on a perfect night with the stars shin ing and being walked up by thunder shower. The men who really under 2 stand women are those who haven't any theories and never expect anything g but the unexpected: who play all the matrimonial tunes by ear and mix their attitude toward a wife as Dinah mixes her batter cakes. by instinct, putting in little sugar or drop of vinegar just at the right moment. when 1t is most needed. Thesman who enters holy wedlock with theory in his mind is like the man who always trots around with an umbrella and rubber overshoes. Hes prepared for the