El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-28
The Diary Of A Bachelor
The Widow Persists in Her Flirta-
4fo1 with Jack Spencer and
Becomes Defiant.
PRL 10 have been sorely mes

A pRTT, f6.-I have been sOreIy neg
AZ 1frent Of YOU lately, Diary, but
L y the Kaleidoscope rapidity with
-.,,,.r familiar forms and long-estab-
7fsbe5 o7fnfons have changed has left
E., a state of bewilderment If I
30 started to pour into your sympa-
49, esr INV belief that sally Spencer
F55 -f-Fr fn inviting the widow TO visit
nor something would nave occurred be-
f,-s f7s page was filled to convince me
fo nv INTERPRETATION of the needs of the
FL my INTERPRETATION OF lhe needs OF the
siruatfon BIZ flirting VlolenLy with Mrs
p~Cv-r and an I got for jeOpardiziug
nv future happiness was a scolding
This She said to me very coldly,
sis my game, and I want you TO know,
nav chat / am competent to play il
without any assistance from YOU.
"Do YOU think Mrs Brown likes to
be thrown at your husbands mead like
a.Sbe seems to be enjoying it."
lr-Tl5 c6 ma 1E5sainsay that, for have
never known the widow to seem as
happy as she has appeared since she
blcame guest OF the spencer nome
Her enjoyment proves TO me that Wom-
an inst MS well as men, like to play
with fire. and that more OF them would
60 TO the devil if such an excursion in
d w0mal's life We're as qulch-y forgot
ten as when a man takes it, The fact
that the label put on ner luggage is
stuck on for life is all that Keeps her
from going to the end OF the line. In
her heart she goes there as oIten as a
Of. course there are exceptions. There
is Margaret Hill, who never IN her lie
committed a sin as enormous as GRO
cheting on Sunday. but what happiness
would a man find in her.
can Just fancy myself, Diary tell
ing Margaret Hiu that / had lived my
almost SO years without the commits
Never Kissed.
MY mother died when I was a boy
can hear myself telling her, and she
was the last woman kissed TIL
kissed you"
But did YOU never meet any woman
Won thought YOU lOVedT' she would
persist. i'm the insane fashion women
have Of trying to uncermine their hap
Never" I would reply emphatically.
"But when other men went around at
nights and did all sorts or wicked
things; didn't you go around with
Never never. never." reaching for
But thought a little doubtfulIy,
81 once heard you speak OF being on
the streets with Tom Addison till
o'clock i'm the morning
My dear" in tones of righteous re-
proof. eve were on our way TO sit up
Perhaps this would satisfy her. but
7 have notion she Would ask who was
dead. and I should be compelled TO in
details OF his last illness. and perhaps,
the next time we were out riding. be
confronted with the request that I
show her his gravel
And why would she do this. Diary2
VI ell the Lord only KNOWS A boy who
punches q hole in his drum to find out
where the noise comes from has his
counterpart in every wife She isn't
content TO simply be happy, she must
punch her happiness all to pieces, using
question mark as tool
When she has discovered that her
husband wasn't @ SpOrless angel in his
Uast. she declares. "Au men are alike.'
And when a woman says. All men are
as tar
Getting Brazen.
April 20-MrS- Brown and Jack Spen-
Ger have become so abandoned in their
the decency to conceal il from his wife.
And as for mel Well, Diary, when I
caught him kissing her the other day,
wouldn't you have thought they'd have
nag az least the grace 70 look ashamed-
Not a bit Of it, All the embarrass-
ment was mine, pledged sally my
word I wouldn't Interfere, but / broke
ii this morning when the widow came
across the lawn and took seat BEDSIDE
me in the library 7 have noticed that
as soon as Jack leaves the house she
hunts me up, showing no desire To face
an hour or two alone with her hostess
I began by asking her rather grUffly
when she was going home.
I'm tones as innocent as If she were
telling preacher she liked lamb stew,
she replied:
Il can't tell YOU when 7 am going
but I can tell YOU this much. When I
50, I'm not going alOne!