The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-02-07
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.


replied Sal.
They deny it-yes-even bias
phemously." cried the cynic, waving
his cigarette.
"eometimes," deployed Sal, Il don't
care much for the cloth. But the
other day one of 'em said something
safe and sane"
"Apropos?"
ct was from a Boston pulpit" re-
piled Sal, maybe not a pulpit, but
from Boston, came the pronunciamen-
to. Your cigarette made me think if
it," she added.
"If it's only my cigarette makes
you think"
Don't be silly" interpolated Sal.
"Sillyi" exclaimed the cynic. when
maybe I was trying to be sarcastic"
Never try to be sarcastic" returned
Sal Sarcasm Is a gift like playing
the piano or painting a picture. You
can do it anyway. If you can't, no
matter how hard you try, you can't"
brief IL not lucid" interrupted the
cynic.
well, it's the truth" said Sal.
the color of your eyes or the contour
Of your ears. 1t belongs to you. You
can't acquire it."
II wish l could acquire a contour
10 my ear" grinned the cynic.
Ears are funny things" said Sal.
''very few people have pretty ears
ears aren't pretty anyway. But if
women only knew it, the best thing
they can do Is to pun their hair over
tAsm."
"And sometimes hide rosy little
saT;" smiled the cynic. ri
"Bahi" said Sal, "onry babies have
rosy little ears. Poets write about
EN-, but I'd bet my best hat very few
posts ever saw any"
"Posts," she went on, always have
su1h funny looking wives"
i've noticed a disposition on the
paft Of poets myself" said the cynic,
ito select unpoetic looking females for
helpmeets."
They always look SO sloppy" cried
Sal. why do poets wives always
look like their clothes had been
pitched on with a hay-fork?"
well. there are mitigating circum-
stsncss," said the cynic. Poets wives
generally have to get up and make the
fires and cook the breakfast and turn
their last winters hat inside out-and
all that" he added vaguely 'Have
some consideration for the poor poets
wife She doubtless would like to
pull her hair over her ears-but she
hasn't time"
THOR inclfnation.,.. said Sal 1T is
tbs devil 70 live with poet. =
you shock me, Sal DEAR cried the
syn1c, with these unladylike inter-
lvaAs."
mo I don't = said Sal. "You like
to hear me. dosit Besides what's. so
unladylike about referring to the devil
don't we hear all about him at
church,
There are times and places-and
them some. :" returned the cynic. ''The
devil has no place in schoo1-teacher's
vocabulary" he grinningly added.
Don't throw it at me-" cried Sal.
TITS Just as respectable to be school
eeacher-as-as-"
II do so like the way you keep to
the point" finished the cynic.
We'll, the clergyman did say some
thing sensible about womens smok-
Ing" said Sal. "He said smoking was
non-moral. That is, it had nothing to
do with morals" explained Sal, in her
best school ma'amish manner.
@Thanks!" said the cynic
'YUur sarcasm, I must confess, is
nxSlve, not acquired" returned Sal
'<But you know thought that was the
best thing I'd heard for long time.
This clergyman went on to say that
he wouldn't think of demonstrating
with q woman for smoking a cigar
ette any more than he would for
drinking coffee, or the way she did
her hair"
HE said 1t was a personal matter
and he would regard 1t as an import
inence to interfere in his clerical ca.
pacity."
Bully for the cloth" exclaimed the
cynic. "Now if he'd only issue an,
other edict upon the sanity of the
cocktail"
That's quite another thing" cried
Sal. Cocktails are different"
Every different" grinned the cynic
Cocktails are bad for the diges-
tion." said Sal severely. Besides hav.
ing an injurious effect upon the men.
tality OF the drinker."
I'm other words it's all right for you
to smoke cigarette if you want to-
but it's injurious and immoral for me
to imbibe a cocktail
II didn't say that"
mol said it. Said it for. you
Which goes to show how our auras
dovetai1 together. It's what you
meant and / got it from your sub-con.
scious mind before you could voice it
with your lips"
II am not interested in all that
stuff" said Sal. But l must say
I'd like to know that clergyman
What he said was true enough-that
is, that smoking is non-moral. And
there is no earthly reason why women
shouldn't smoke If men do"
"None whatever" agreed the cynic.
Liberty. equality, fraternity-rm for
it,"
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