The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-10
HE OTHER SORT 2 GIRL

shortly, "how 1t looks to man to see nice girl trying to be sporty It gives him a nauseating sensation all over, just as 1t would to see Maud Adams trying to play zaza, or Ethel Barrymore doing the cake walk. Ii, mans mind there are two codes of manners: the kind that amuses him in a woman and the kind he adfnfres in her; the kind for his sister"
 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 themselves with and the kind they marry; the kind. like a mountain goat or burro, who can tread lightly and with a sure foot the edge of the pre- cfpice and the crooked mountain path: and the other kind. wno can't--without tumbling headlong or running home scared and sorry. Besides" added, as I noted Kitty's eye still fixed wistfuily upon her cocktail glass. "even when the amatuer bohemian succeeds in her inn
 itation, 1t Is after all only--an imitat-
 ion. She looks about as natural and fasinating in tinted hair and a worldly
 air as man does in hired dress suit , and borrowed collar, and her efforts
 at being slass afd spicy are so slarins- | And yet" interrupted Kitty, "how men encourage herf'
 What" put down my fork and stared across the table.
 "A man. said Kitty. jabbing an oyst- CT viciously,i twill coax and coax a girl to do a thing she oughtn't to do; to take a glass of wine. or cigarette. or
 to kiss him.
 "But he admires her all the more for refusing himl. protested stoutly. And then goes off to the girl around the corner. who doesn't refuse him.. retorted Kitty, with toss of her picture hat: Its deadly monotonous." she sighed. being modest violet when you are dying for fun and excitement and novelty and--and all the men are around the corner."S
 Kitty" demanded severiy. when
 did this happen to. youi"
 "Ch, 1t happens" returned; Kitty, 1 .snapping a bread stick spftefully, ''to every girl when she gets weary of being respected and 'admired and left at home; and when the incest man she
 knows suddenly forgets her for girl chin, who does all the things he declares
 are outrageous and which he would have annihiIated her for doing and" What man I broke in desperately.
 .It,s all very well,r interrupted Kit | ty. waving her bread stick dramatical-
 iy, Ito say that men don't admire per
 oxide hair and open work stockings and peau d Espagneg and spicy manners and violent peticoats; but. if those things didat attract them, the other sort Of
 girr wouldn't waste her time tinting her hair and her cheeks and freezing her ankles-,' $, kitty. Kitty. I cried, .tragically, l you're upsetting all my theories and your cocktail and you don't understand. Tinted hair and peau d'Espagne and all l those things may be fascinating in I little way, with the right sort of man. l And when he has tired of them. which I he always does, what he wants IS not l weak imitation of what he has al-
 ready had, but a changei As long as he 1 doesn't take life nor women seriously, | he. pursues the women who doesn't take herself seriously. But, like the I cherry in the cocktail, though he may l be alluring, she isn't necessary to him l nor"
 k Why" interrupted Kitty, thought fully, fdo all the things that are good for you and are sure to disagree with you. have a cherry in them?" Perhaps" suggested. because, like the girl around the corner.' they have to be tinted in order to look l wholesome. It's the trimmings that
 
 sugar on the cake"
 | And the peau d'Espange on the ruffles," suggested Kitty. e | And the coloring in the ices" And the rouge and spangles on the
 chorus girls.
 1 And the calcium on the leading lady | And it DOES make them fasinating!'
 sighed Kitty. l leaned back and lighted a cigarette Tt does,' I agreed, blowing ring 1 that floated airly over the topmosi | rose of Kitty's hat. If it's not put on l too heavily. But the trouble with the
 average girl Is that when she goes in
 for bizarre effects she Is likely to over.
 do them; and even a siren couldn't
 attract a man If she sang too loud
 He can forgive woman more easily
 for a crime than for making a spectacle
 of herself; he can pardon her more I