Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-10
PLAN OF
CAMPAIGN

IN the more meditative moments
These are her thoughtsD
1T 10 simply atrOcious and unforgiv'
able, I've considered the subject very
carefully. very carefully Indeed. rom
all sides, because | believe In always
being Just, even when you are the In
jured person. Why. I've considered II
fully lb minutes and ] believe my
head aches from the intensity with
which I've devoted myself TO 1t. and
headaches make wrinkles and I'm not
going to be such goose as 10 start
wrinkles ia my face because OF man
like Winchester Henderson! Not !!
Pm not going to give him the sat
isfaction OF knowing that anything lie
could do would affect me IN the least.
Thut's the troubie-how to show
proper resentment that Will be notlce'
able even to a stupid person like HIM
self without giving him ground to nat
ter himself that he has disturbed Inc,
Men are SO frightfully conceited.
They think all they have to do Is look
at n girl and she Is simply overcome
with gratitude at being noticed. Ana
Winchester IL as had as the rest. even
II he does cover up with that Air OF
retiring modesty. It really IL deceit
full when you come to think about II.
- he thinks for one minute that
I'm going to stand his forgetting an
engagement with me he is very much
mistaken! What II the head OF his
firm did come to town and keep him
and what II his sister did telephone
that the baby had the measles and her
husband was away and she was scared
to death? Little things like that
shouldn't entirely upset his mental
processes. wonder that he dared put
such feeble excuses on paper.
Il suppose he fancies that when he
calls tonight. rs he says he Will. III
receive him as sweetly as usual. Well.
I'll fool him.
1T won't do, however. to 90 In WIN
a tragedy queen air. l think on the
whole I'll be downstairs when No
comes, and reading. person can Do
almost insultingly rude and absent
minded looking up from book Win
an instant's faraway stare as though
she couldn't quite place the caller VINO
had lust entered. Her subsequent
elaborate sweetness doesn't remove
the shock he has Of feeling there was
even an instant's time when she could
forget him. but then Id have to con-
tinue being sweet and that wouldn't
do,
TT might be better to como down
stairs with my chin not up In the air.
but perfectly level. greet him with
elaborate politeness and keep the con-
yersation on the most perfunctory So
ciety plane Just as though he was
some one I didn't in the least care
about. but was going to be courteous
10 II died for It, And be 80 nice to
him that he wouldn't have q single
thing to get offended at and yet keep
n regular stone wall between US! II
would lake clever handling, but
could manage that kind Of situation
very nicely. There's nothing that VIII
40 bafie and infuriate q man as that!
"On the whole. that's too much ef-
fort to waste on Winchester. 1t doesnt
matter sufficiently to cause me TO ex-
ert mvself a. much as that. ] Nigh
act Just plain bored, reply absent
minded,y and when he tried to repeat
his excuses say carelessly. almost ~
though l were amused at his thinking
ANYTHING he did affected me, that It
didn't matter In the least. that other
things which were more important
had quite swept It from my mind
.T could say. oh. did VIC have an en-
sagement that night" and then laugh
kind of helplessiy and murmur some
thing about ho~ shockingly forget
things. That would beat into his brain
the novel idea that maybe he wasn't
so important after all!
.'rd lust Ike to stir him up q bit
and make him humble and apologize.
sunpose he's too devoured BY conceit
In have anything like that affect him.
though. He knows there are plenty
more xirls On earth besides me-silly
ones. too. Who would be only too glad
10 have him come to see them.
You really can't blame the men
when Girls are 20 foolish. Annette
Billings. nov would simply break her
neck II she thought there was .
chance TO get Winchester away from
! me and goodness knows when q girl
nix. tina, starts In II Il all up 20 far
as any other girl h concerned Men
are such idiots that way-shey always
run after a girl who natters and
cajoles them and takes such an inter
! ss, In them and their careers. Ouch
, Nv. how I pulled my hair
II expect the real clever. subtle
,e,.oo would let even her desire for
revenge 20 II she wanted to outwit q