The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07


ty, flinging her hat down on the divan
and herself petulantly into an arm
chair, give me a mani!
"Pve offered you one" I suggested.
several times; but you always re-
fuse"
"oh. YOU" broke in Kitty. suddenly
picking up her hat again and rearrang-
with elaborate care. You aren't OBJ
stinate. You're just strong minded.
you know, and sometimes a little
strong willed, but--but that's ALL"
/ shield mean / dropped my cigar
cite. What was 1t somebody said about
fearing the Greeks most when they
offer gifts?
IT'S Bob Hartley" went on Kitty.
II asked him to do something for me
and-he won't. Fifty years ago. she
added with sigh. "a girl had merely
to pout, or cry, or faint, in order to
get anything she wanted; but now"
She has to bully and blum and
flatter,' I declared.
And even them" persisted Kitty.
sadly, its harder to get around the
average man than to get around Cape
Horn, or the truth, or the Pacific
Ocean. Tears don't move a man any
more-except to move him out of reach.
They've gone out of fashion, like cork
screw cur1s and pantalettes and all the
other delightful feminine follies."
They've been battered out" 1 re-
marked, putting my cigarette and
watching the smoke curl around Kitty's
pompadour. "by golf sticks and higher
education and women's clubs and fem
mime franchises and"
by man himself" cried Kitty, ris-
ing in her wrath and waving the pansy
hat excitedly. Don't you suppose we'd
keep on crying for things If we could
rat hnk + ~
easier than working for them or vot-
ing for them or"
But" 1 protested, "the fact remains
that girls don't cry any more; neither
do they blush"
Don't they?" broke in Kitty, fling
ing down her hat and springing up
to pace the floor. Don't they? Why?
Because they don't bring their tears
into the drawing room and spill them
on the parlor carpet or drop them on
your coat lapel or into the soup at
dinner or the coffee at breakfast"
held up my hands in protest, and
Kitty sank back into the armchair
and a semblance of calm.
When a modern girl wants to cry"
she continued, tanning herself with
her hat, she slips off into the pantry
or the bathroom and sheds her tears
amid the soap and the toothbrushes
where she can do 1t comfortably with
out annoying anybody. She never
cries for effect because she knows
tina 1.-THE only effect tears have on the
average man Is to dampen his ardor
that the only effect tears have on the
out of reach of their shower-to an
other girl with a nice. dry, sunny
smile"
"Oh. l don't know" 1 retorted nom
chalantly, ficking the ashes from my
cigarette. of course you would" ex-
claimed Kitty.
1.-The first time l ever saw a pretty
girl cry 1 would have done anything
on earth she asked, from blacking her
shoes to killing Indians, to stop those
tears"
ITO stop them! But suppose she had
done it again"
"Oh, Well" I protested.
"And again"
What Three times!"
And again. persisted Kitty. TITS
not tears, but the first tear that affects
a man. If he loves you he will do al
most anything to please you the first
time he sees you cry; but by the time
he has witnessed cry No. he will
begin to look upon your briny sorrow
as a mere stunt and to wonder why
your nose gets so red and your eyes
SO swollen, and why you go to SO much
trouble to make yourself hideous
teary woman Is like rainy weather;
you can stand her for a while, but IL
she keeps up long enough she is sure
to give you the blues or to drive you
to seek a change of feminine atmos-
phere. Nowadays people travel around
the world in search of sunny weather.
They go to comedies instead of trag-
edies, and read joke books instead of
melancholy poets. It's the sunny side
of the street and the sunny side of life
and the sunny side of a woman that
attracts man. She can't weep her
way round him, nor bully her way
round him, nor argue her way round
him; but she can smile her way straight
through him
And rivet him on the other SIDE" I
finished, waving my cigarette enthusi-
astically.
Yes" sighed Kitty triumphantly;