The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02

"I hate her-I hate-Mercy save us' How I do hate herr.
 This from a savage little voice, which had you parted the pink blossoms and pered down the hill, you would have discerned came from bundle Of lace and chiffons, all white and creamy ana soft and fluffy.
 What does she want with every man that comes to the Springs I'd like to know?" was the next expression, uellN- cred convulsively and indignantly, and Blue Eyes flashed such glances that the best of us would have been annlhllated under the circumstances.
 You could understand her being friendly with some of them," said the girl in question, but everybody knows she's got perfectly good -husband-a nice, kind, gentle man. who loves her. and yet she keeps gobbling up every good looking man as soon as he steps off the train."
 Well" replied the companion of Miss Blue Eyes. If Mrs. Likem didn't get them old Mrs. Grabem would. You've noticed that all the men who aren [ | camping at Mrs. Lil<em's feet are so | thick about Mrs. Grabem's that she can't move without stepping on them. What I can't understand,' said Blue | Eyes, glancing up at the summit Of the | hill, whereon reposed the summer host
  i, Neither one of those women is pretty; neither is young; they aren't particu- larly well dressed: why, I have even seen Mrs. Likem put on a white dress In the morning and keep 1t on all day long she couldn't get away from the men | long enough to change it-while all or us girls were changing our dresses a half dozen times a day and not a man | in the hotel even glancing at us sec ond time"
 q hate her-I hate her." reiterated Miss Blue Eyes There's not girl at the Springs that hasn't had her sweet heart literally torn from her by one of those two Middle Aged Married Women | hirts, What fun can woman Of 4o
 with a husband and five or six children
 get out of having lot of men on hei
 trail? I wonder!''
 T agree with you.' Brown Eyes said truthfully. q came to this resort thinking that my best beau and I would | have the time of our lives. But l hate the place. The water doesn't agree with
 me- I have an uncomfortable room; loathe the things they give us to eat
 and yet came here just simply because of the nice quiet time I could have with my suitor. And what happens? If he dances with me, he is cutting his eye 1T Mrs Likem's direction all the time; fl we are walking, he Is looking to see Il the can spy her anywhere: if we are rid | Ing and by chance he happens to en- counter her, his face lights up like' ar electric bulb had been turned on some where back of his eyes. So what's 2 poor girl to do?"
 Don't you just loathe old married women fiirts?" Blue Eyes asked again "T do, and I've made one resolution
 and that Is that never again will go tt lany summer resort unless it is distinctly stated in the prospectus that the place is guaranteed against the three Ms
 Malaria. Mosquitoes and Middle geo Married Women Flirts."
 The summer resort situation this summer, let it be said, isn't unlike wha' l 1t has been in the summers gone by.
 The cry is always the same.
 What chance has young gir when there's an old married woman around trying to gobble up every mar
 in sight?" said pretty girl the othei