The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-18
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.


you?" inquired Sal.
I've had 'em talk over my head
you do sometimes" grinned the cynic.
"Oh, don't mean that. l mean"
AT you!"
Yes, at you," repeated Sal. And
! don't know any more low down way
OF trying to get even with people"
Il wish, SAL" said the cynic, you
wouldn't use those degenerate express
sions-come now-'low down You
must admit that isnt-er-very nice.
Il was trying not to talk over your
head" said Sal maliciously.
"A mean fling" replied the cynic,
"and one unworthy of my Sal
stop calling me your Sail" cried
Sal. at infuriates mel"
Besides" she continued, as | told
you the other day I'm not your Sal,
Lor anybody else's and the longer l
! live the gladder I am I'm not any
body's. l don't see that people get
They're always trying to back-pedal
and side-step and worm out Of it."
Marriage Is worn out institution"
deployed the cynic cautiously.
II read the other day in paper"
said Sal, that men would be loyal to
their wives to the last ditch if the
said wives would let them do just as
they pleased all the time-not hand
cuff or shackle or hinder or thwart
them. Just let them do as they pleas
ed, especially about amusing them
selves, and they'd always be loyal hus-
bands"
AN attractive, if somewhat curious,
proposition" murmured the cynic.
81 don't see anything curious about
it," said Sal. Its just the same old
thing. That's the way they always
have been, Nothing new or original
about it.
Men may be loyal but they are in
capable of constancy. And they're al
ways looking round for amusement II
you walk out with a man he's always
peering round to see something allur
ing don't care to look at every man
I pass"
Heaven Forbid" interrupted the
cynic
well, then, why do you want tc
look at every woman you pass" asked
Sal
II don't-when I'm with you!"
ooh, POOH" said Sal
That's what l say-here we are al
the same old thing! We don't seem te
be able to detach ourselves from oul
moorings, as it we're"
Cali the same" said Sal, sit is the
lowest down thing in social inter
course-this talking at people.
You know how it goes.
Maria, who thinks you are a com
mon creature who don't know how tt
wear your clothes, but who hasn't the
nerve to tell you SO, drops in to dis
cuss the spring styles.
"She says that above everything
else in the world should we consider
the howness and whereforeness of ou1
outward garb. That it is the thing We
are judged by. That true merit hasn'
the shadow of chance when smother
cd in anomalous clothes. That many {
career has been ruined by inattentio1
: to these little things that yet mean 81
: much. That we should always remem
Der that a lady never wore certain
things and that a womanly woman
would never be seen on the street il
thus and So That it is our duty to so
: ciety at large to always be neat ant
: clean
"'Clean!' you exclaim, I'll have you
: know, Maria, that I'm quite as
: Maria is very much surprised and
indeed, shocked, to say nothing of be
ing entirely Disguised with your inter
ruption. Surely she says you wouldn'
accuse her of such an indicate thint
as intimating that anybody connected
with her family was not"
Then why do you talk that way,
you go on, Everybody within shouting
distance knew you meant me-"
Maria declared she never dreamed
of such a thing.
!, That surely she can indulge in gen
eralties that might apply to any on
without being hauled up before the ba
and arraigned for doing thing sh
hoped she was incapable of.
"She always remembered the tradi
tons Of her family. That she never for
got what was due her own dignity.