The evening world., 1911-05-12

In writing a story now ] get to have
a friendly feeling for my men charac-
Il is finished. I want TO
shake hands and say, 'Goodby. old chap
Won't you rave a cocktail or some
thing before YOU goT
But women are my great DIM
Guilty. I don't understand them. II
the public would lot me ia write
altogether about men. Nv never
created q feminine character that
satisfied ms-nevor ono for whom
I have tho cordial feeling some OF
ny men inspire in me. You soc,
you women are so law;ess, or
rather each one Of you makes her
own laws. II its impossible for n
man - know any woman well
o1gh to k,ow THAT under all
circumstance she Will be likely to
feel or say or dc.
But most men have women reduced
to such an easy formula" / sad, "ac-
cordlng to which 1t is every woman's
aim II end TO get married, and they
solve everything which puzzles or dis
concerts them by falling back upon
tina; idea"
-WdCe FcTOIVcs'
"Oh. yes. formulas are easy Mr..
O~ppenheim answered. "If / could make
heroines according to a formula. | sup
pose | should be better satisfied with
them. But as yet I've never succeeded
in drawing my ideal Of a woman"
And that Isl"
II is not often that an r.ngllshmsn
vii! describe the Ideal the very
first time you meet him. and ! could
see Mr.. ~Oppenhcim approached the SUD-
jest with a certain dinidence.
"The Ideal woman you know.
sho.ld be very feminine. very
~womanIy," MIR. oppenheim re-
.l!ed, and very, very oaprtcious.
must be very hard to conquer,
but utterly conquered when you get
st done. And, by way Of variety.
she mustn't stay conquered for
over. Ono should be Obliged to
start all over again every little
while"
There was a pause, n for several
moments. It seemed as II Mr.. Open
helms ideal was Noman before us
erect, complete as Galatea from Pyg-
malion's hand, Then, like Pygmallon.
he |bethought himself that she must
have a soul.
Must Have Brains, Too.
Really" ne said, with what seemed
a slight note OF apology In his voice.
81 think she must have a brain-a good
brain. That's the only thing that will
keep a man interested for any length
OF time. A man wont give his whole
life and soul to a woman unless size
has the brain to understand him, to be
his companion in every sense.
"co you know, I should say the
most important quality for q wom-
an &c possess 10 a sense OF umor
After all. q sense OF umo 10 only
a sense OF proportion It keeps
woman from ovor-emphaSis, from
boring, you know. Yes, that'a 1t
the ideal woman 70 one whose sense
OF humor keeps her under all Goa
ditions from being . bore."
"Do YOU think yol will ever portray
a suffragctte?" | asked.
No Intercs st in S~uffragettes.
Mr.. Oppenheim looked a trine panied,
Dear. no" he said; people arcn''
Interested III en-, JUS btIOIt 1 SilNt
Cor America | attended the first per
Torrance OF a play by Jerome x
Jerome dealing with the suffrage qucs'
ton. I forget the title Just now, bu: Il
fell rather fla,
you won't he too hard on me. now
will you?' asked Mr.. ~Oppenheim, Al
though impclled to sudden candor. "TC
write about, you know, suffragettes arr
about as Interesting as dead cats.
There's no reason now why a splnsse
owning property or a widow with n,
husband to represent her shouldn't vot'
Just as well as a man." Mr.. Op2enhein
added. But that two persons In on
house should each have a vote seem
TO me ridiculous. But don't be hard OF
me. | didn't know the women wer
Interested in the suffrage question owe
here.
rive iust been up TO the R'tz-Carltol
for luncheon. What a lot OF you
women lunch with each other. don
they? Now In England a woman lunch
ing would W. her man along. Blu
here young girls Of twenty or twenty
Ave lunch with each other. Really
was quite a bewilderlng sight-all thOs
pretty women in pretty hats lunch'n
together, and | almost the only man /
the place. Why, 1t was like Paradise
looking at your women, you know
cant make up my mind whether II
in London or Paris.
"You have the facss ana figures
OF Saxon women but the clothes OF
Yrsnoh women. And you wear
them III French women. There
are, OF course, English women who
get their clothes In Paris, but they
don't put them On so well. They're
more careless, not 30 neat ~ you
are.
u like 10 go about In the restaurant
Of strange Cities Mr.. Oppenhei,
added. I've got many OF my plots |
restaurants Just watching a little part
at one OF the tables. I begin 10 wondt
what they met for-what they are say
Ing to each other-and before ! know
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