The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-20
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 .And if she can't md any other but ton" added Kitty thoughtfully. there | is always the man himself. and he will talk about that for hours, without tir- iEg."
 dropped the tassel of the curtain with which I had been toying. | T don't suppose" I suggested mildly, that there was ever woman who en- toyed talking about herself" If there were" responded Kitty. waving her rose dramatically, there isn't a man who would listen to her. | A man hates to hear a woman talk about herself"
 "or her neighbors."I added. "Or her troubles.
 "Or her ideas or her conQuests or her opinions or--"
 "or anything that doesn't concern him, or that he doesn't understand" finished Kitty briefly. I'm going to study up, she continued, Ion topics for masculine minds or how to amuse
 T once knew a woman who studied up on topics.'s" I interrupted. with a wry face at the memory. Whenever you called, she had the conversation all set out like a chess-board and which, ever way you'd move shed checkmate you and force you back into her line of talk. If the topic was hunting, she'd come out with description of the latest thing in guns. Shed tn- vite you to dinner and send you away with mental gastritis after explaining why sugar adhered to . wet spoon and why potatoes were fattening, ana all about the composition of the oils in the salad dressing and what made celery good brain food and how the Eski- mos subsisted on" Isn't 1t funny" interrupted Kitty, wrinkiing up her nose In queer It, tie smile, "how distasteful 1t Is for man to receive information from fem that woman knows things" mine lips. It pains him to discover
 Not at alI,'I declared shortly, but he is particular what kind of things she knows. All the knowledge of the ologies and the isms isn't worth half as much to her as the knowledge or how to use her eyes. All the know ledge of the ancient languages isn't as valuable to her as the knowledge of when to smile ar when to keep silent or when to sigh. And the only thing she need study up on in order to be an interesting tallker 6 the man to whom she is talking and"
 Miss Glenn" broke in the cool voice of our hostess as she pulled back the curtains and appeared. followed by glanced eagerly at Kitty, T want to present Professor-oh, I beg your par donw
 Not at all." said Kitty shameless ly. MT Curtis needn't have drawn the curtains-and I'm so delighted to meet the professor. Why, we've been talking about him for the last half hour, haven't we, MT. Curtis?"
 As I sat painfully trying to listen to the woman next me at dinner. Kitty's voice foated across the table in brok- en phrases.
 Glasses are so distinguished look ing,"I heard her say. And later: "Is that an intellectual way you have of parting your hair?' And again: How clever of you! and you thought of it, yourself? Why, of course you may, if mama Now don't be silly"
 turned suddenly and glared at Kit
 But she and the professor were deep ly engrossed in the study of something which lay on the cloth between them.
 T do belieev 1t isl" cried Kitty ea- gerly.
 Tt certainly isl" agreed the profess sor. enthusiastically.
 I craned my neck to catch glimpse of the remarkable specimen" which was the object of so much intellectuaI solictude. At that moment each of them took piece of it and calmly pro- ceeded to-eat it. It was philo- pena.
 Oh, Kitty! And thought you need ed helpl