The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-29

"Tt is strange" said the man who is
| successful in business and popular in
society-"1t is strange how women
never forget"
His tone was half reminiscent and
half questioning. There was a hint in
it that he would like to rave the
woman to whom he directed his re-
marks enter into a discussion of the
subject.
The woman, a bright and quick-wit-
ted one. too the hint, as a wise woman
should, for when a man let's fall such a
comment as this o may be quite GER
a that 1t is the outcome of some
thought and observation. Inc perhaps
a bit of personal experience.
Yes" agreed the quick-witted
woman, women certainly nave the
faculty of remembering in a very
marked degree"
The man looked at her qu~estioningly.
He had directed the conversation into
that channel, very true; and no doubt
the same thought flashed through his
mind as had entered the woman's-
There is a bit of personal experience
lurking behind that"
Nov, for example," continued the
man, 81 had a letter this morning from
a girl in the West, whom / met
just a year ago at a nearby shore re-
sort. We became friends. and In this
letter she reminds me that it is just "a
year ago since our acquaintance began.
It's a curious thing how a woman can
keep track of all these little events.
Now, to a man
YES" interrupted the woman. ito a
man such trities as meetings and part
ings mean so little. Even when a mar
is thoroughly devoted he seldom re-
members anniversaries, and more,s the
pity"
''Why a pity?"
"Oh," answered the woman, with a
shrug Of her shoulders, "a mans fac
ulty for forgetting the little things that
make up SO great a part of q woman's
existence often auses' many heartaches
and tears, you know. / often wonder
why men don't show a little sign of
their gallantry by ~cultivating a memory
for these little trifles. Since they know
so well that women possess the art-or
the misfortune. if you will-of remem-
DCl lllS OO WCAAp IA NOah0 AAAAa ~ NOatA
give them more concern"
The man deliberated a little, and then
admitted thai perhaps the woman was
right; that perhaps it would possibly
add to the pleasure of life should men
improve their memories.
While the wise woman who has
learned that men forget quite as easily
as women remember may advise men to
cultivate better memories and recon-
mend to women that they cultivate. to
81 certain degree, the art of forgetting,
still she will know all the time that in
spite of her preaching. women will con-
tlnue to count days and to remember
all that sha has done to max them up
as LONG as the world swings round ano
round.
Their was a time when it was Of
fered for a reason when explaining the
faculty of a woman's recalling what
made up to her the sum of this day OF
that, that there was little else TO in
terest her outside of her garden walls
1t is different now. and the busiest Of
busy women still have time to remem'
Der.
There is his good fortune, though.
The busy woman keeps all the llttlC
tender places in her heart fresh I'M
green, for she has learned that thu
world does not care to know abou
them; she has learned that it is bette
and drawer many times to Just remem
Der alone. though she is conscious al
the while that it would be the deares
thing possible to share her memories
with some one in thorough sympath.
with herself.