El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-17
The Diary of A Bachelor
Herein Max Writes Down some
Thoughts About Being COngen-
faI and His Requirements
In MatrfmOny.
BY Max

Max
EARCH 2O-1Irs Spencer was
MI right. The widow does not in
4NA tend to let our semiflirtation
of last winter become no more than
a memory She has written me many
times since our return, and all these
letters I have shown to my oIllclaI
guide. .- -,
away that night. I was looking Tor
ward she said, ito a happy evening
with the most c0ngenial man L ever
IT have noticed. Dairy. that widows
have a great deal to say about con-
genial" Every time the WIDOW anu
] agreed, no difference II II was On
the merit of painting OF cneesCt
she had something to say ABOUT OUT
tastes being so cOngentaL 1t SOt
so at last that the word began 70
sound like a certain very popular Sc
lection from LOhengrin-l
You Have Misjudged Ne
Confess, you dear man., she SAG
in the second letter. that you ran
av-av because you thought I would
run off with you to a preacher eLlu
marry you in spite OF your screams
dearest friend! I would not marry
1At This caused me to sit up and Won
der, but my otuclaI geloe 1 - -
mans game When a woman says she
wouldn't marry ANY man, the man ~
whom she says IL wants % Llllu ~ -
If she means il, so he offers QlInselL -
/ Drove it. I had a momentary oeslre 70
I brove the widow was wrong Wnen L
read that letter, but II soon van
IN the third letter she mentioned.
! som Lane of San Francisco, VINO IN
tended to stay only two DAYS, DuL "HO
had decided to prOlOng his VISIT
7 win not tell you why, you Dear
ct Man she wrote. but there are
/ men who are not AFRAID ana oOu uii
That rather nettled me II II don't
/ like" lid to the Spencers, TO have
/ a woman call me coward,
The Brave Coward
| "and I am proud OF you II taxes :
/ brave man to be coward Where
woman is concerned - tx.
/ That may be true, but 1 dont Is. Is
= to be compared so unfayoraDly win
this Sam Lane. looked nm " -
I Bradstreet and found no rnenllon o.
/ him. so he can't be much OF man
I She said so much about Sam Lane
/ in the fourth letter that In my reply
/ Tasked her to send me the story OF ms
She did not reply for so long that
! began TO fear that all danger con-
I nected with the widow was pas L
dsDeer of that woman has been the
/ greatest enjoyment L have hao IN q
/ In the fifth letter she paid no heed
2, nv "a rcasn- She wrote to say she
I would be passing through here on the
/ gard and would I meet ner. Sns
( would have, she said tour hQurs -.
I tween trains and she would be alone
/ Would I meet her. Dalry,
J wouldn't miss il. 7 told this to MIS-
Jack. and she looked little worried
I
/ March 81 rather surprised my
| self today at the state OF eNclIeInens
/ was in because of the prospect o.
| meeting the widow. / don loEe 1eL'
| Dairy: I never would or could love
woman of her type, but there IS no
DENYING she will be an agreeaDie
change in my domestic monotony-
Wanted EzxhiIaration. 49,
! T want the exhilaratiOn Of 9 little
oersonal danger on my own account
and the widow supplies Il -7.,,a5
fo meet her take her out to dinner
and for a ride till her train leLI AZ a
/ learned that q later train leII a. =
and had some dreams connected Win
that train. Then got a telegram say
ing she had decided to go nome oy an
other route! -
| is told that II he explOdes cannon
( cracker il viii blow off MS myers
and he lights il and il falls 70 so on
March 2S--I am thinking OF puLlLIlss
/ this advertisement in some matrl-
''wanted-A wife She must have
/ a mind and heart that contain no
ScoI1nIicafio1s Of uptodateness- She
must be concerned with no problems
! Of Industry or Of sociology She must
/ never explore any psychological trans
/ She must love me, but not so ulucn II
| won't last. I do not require that she
/ oe beautiful. but I want her TO pc
| sweet and wholesome j want ner 20
! enter matrimony with no pre-concelNeu
notions that il is to be platonlc 1rlend-
/ ship. I want a human being net an
she Must Be Satisfied.
Il want wife who viii not snlrk
maternity and who viii be HAPPY
i'm the privilege. satisfied that she IS
] fulfilling her highest destiny In re-
turn for her love and devotion VIII
give her love and devotion, ana every
[ freedom from worry and work that
my wealth can command
Address Max, etc
-Four hours later: I had made this
entry in my dairy. and was WONDER
ing what I could do TO occupy the
( three hours till bedtime (the Spen-
/ GERS being away, when the tele-
A moment later TOmpkins said
| was wanted. When I said, Hello, /
was greeted with a laugh, and a very
familiar voice said. "Oh, you dearesl
mani Don't you know who this IS
/ I knew; OF course, I knew. And her
! voice sounded good to me, for / was
{ lonesome and it is lOnesOmeneSss
more than anything else in the world
I that robs a man Of his senses
just received a full line OF the cele-
/ brsted Syracuse china. Canterberry