The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-09-04
THE E3EsOK TN
COMPACT

when the bachelor girl come home
; from the SOUTH said the little grass
widow, she found me hrokenhearted-
Samnie and had qnarreled
THE bachelor girl was unhappy,
too The little artist fellow she was
helping TO feed the winter before had
disappointed her. so We made COM
pact 10 stand by each other just as
men do. Men We're a lot better friends
to each other than women. We had
10 own that, We went out TO dinner
To talk IL over II was funny, bur the
bachelor girl was good deal more
bitter than /, who have suffered so
much from men and been married so
many times; but then | am of a very
forgiving and recuperatiye nature,
taking it all in all, as the English say
THAT little fellow, sho complained,
was the most nngrateful creature she
ever encountered. What thanks AID
she get for feeding him? None at all
On the contrary he sneered az her
! dinners. Said he could improve on
the cooking. Think of thati Looking
gift horse in the mouth like that!
Did ever hear anything like it
No. | said. He was a brute.
"She looked at me hard when ! said
he was brute, then, thinking better
of IL, Went on giving him fits,
Would | promise her on my word
Of honor not 10 tell something II she
told it 10 me2
OF course. l would
Well, then. she leaned over the
table to tell me. so the waiter wouldn't
hear He had borrowed ten dollars Of
her before she went south A ten
dollar bill,
And to think. she went on, that
could care anything for him after
that. That could think OF marrying
him don't understand myself;
don't understand myself at all she
reiterated
While yua arc under the halluei-
nation, said T. .the neaner they treat
you the more yau care for them bur |
just wait Till you get cat, Its then /
ycu see them as they are and hate |
them accordingly Why 1 continued.
there isn't husband have had thai
would make a doormat Of now |
have taken such a dislike 70 them all |
I saw enc ga the street the other
day and didn't recognize him. A friend |
af mine who was with me said, Why /
isn't that your husband-one Of them
I mean?" And looked up and said.
'.Oh. it isl And that's the way YOU /
set once you are out from under the
influence
The bachelor girl stared at me
hard.
i believe You are right, she said:
i believe you are right Thank heay-
en- | am out of the influence, They |
are no earthly good. these men
You are right. too, said |. but
when the waiter showed the
bill at MS / sighed and added, but they
do come In handy 1T times. Don't
theyg
AS we went on home together she
began again:
He has phoned me and phoned
me. she said. since I have come
home, but shall not see him till he
pays me that $40 promise YOU that.
! shall not see him. They are brutes.
These men
Then she went to her fiat in Har-
lem and / didn't see her for the long
est time But | began TO hear of her,
faint rumors that ended in my calling
her up one morning on the phone.
And so YOU are to be married to
the little brute, they tell me- said.
she laughed in a confused way.
Yes, said she.
Nice way 10 keep our compact
said l. Then like crazy foolish. |
added. Did he ever pay you back the
tenn
The answer came sharp and quick.
That question cost me an invitation
to the wedding.
No, said She but | wish you
would not let thar worry you and she
rang of with an angry click.
Now, what do you think OF that?