The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-01
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE
To be continually put in the wrong

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHILE.
To be continually put in the wrong.
When, of course, you know you're
always right.
Is there anything more irritating?
Il should say not" said the other
person. Maria is always doing that
with me. No matter what or how or
where Maria sits aloft complacently
pointing out and explaining and for
giving and saying how glad she is that
at least you can see for yourself how
misinformed and pig-headed and OBJ
stinate and stubborn you have been"
"And how she knows you'll know
better next time and not offend again
and pursue a different course and
mend your ways and be more consid-
crate of others and not forget you're
not the only person in the world and
=" interrupted Sal.
Nonsense girls" said the doctor,
Maria means well. She's merely af.
fected with obliquity of the ego"
Say that again." acclaimed Sal.
I'm lending my attentive ear" cried
the other person.
Besides" pursued Sal, Il don't
know any class of persons that do
more harm than those that mean
we'll"
I'D just as lief be told had good
heart" said the other person.
(Which being interpreted means,
deployed Sal, that you're perfectly
safe and eligible for invitations to all
your married friends houses.
"Id hate to be so cynical" said the
doctor.
This is world of facts" replied
Sal.
why it's true" said the other per
son. Look how popular Maria is. Its
just because she isn't regarded as dan
gerous by the women"
And the funny part of it u.s." went
on SAL that she thinks she's quite
irresistible"
That's part of her oblique ego,
grinned the doctor
"The trouble with you women" con
tinued the doctor, sis your devon
founded inability to get away from the
personal attitude-the individual rela
ton"
els this a lecture before the Greer
County Medical Society,"" inquired Sal
COR dissertation on feminine psy
chology before the Amalgamated Or
der of Near Scientists?" interpolateG
the other person.
'I'm merely trying to illustrate your
peculiar case," growled the doctor de
clining to be pushed into the offing
Here you started out on generality
which might be applied to the exploi
tation of social problem and narrow
right down to lambasting Maria be
cause she's past the age limit and un
attractive to the men"
"Ha-you admit it," cried the othel
person and Sal in chortling unison.
Admit what?"
THAT Maria's not dangerous
81 don't admit anything" said The
doctor. Merely stating a fact"
Better and better!" gurgled Sal.
ooh, poor Maria!" Knocked the othel
person.
you could tell Maria was good b.
her face" said the doctor. Il always
judge woman by her face"
There's nothing original abou
that" said Sal "All men do. And put
woman in the right or wrong accord
ingly."
I'm appalled, by your logic" sarcas
ticated the doctor
Its the truth, though" said tn,
other person, that Maria will put yol
in the wrong every time. Once heart
Liz-Maria's cousin, you know-com
miserating Maria on the fact that sht
had been badly used by her sister
husbands people. 1t is fact that sh'
has, too. You know Maria has hardl.
thing to live on because when he
sister died, her husbands people COB
| bled up every bit of money her siste
| had since no will had been made ant
the laws of the state permitted 'em t
do it.