Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-01-09
GIRLS ARE CURIOUS,
so ARE SOME BOYS

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| men at the boarding house table.
is that an original discovery, OF
| did somebody tell your" politely in.
| quired the young man who sells gas
| engines.
Maybe he dreamed It," hazarded
the young man who works in an ar.
| chitect's Office.
No., explained the young man with
| the celluloid collar, as he reached out
and gathered in the last slice of bread
with one Of his large red hands
there didn't nobody tell me, an ]
| didn't dream 1t. l amt like some
of these ducks you meet in boardin
| house. When l go to bed go to bed
| tired enough to sleep. I leave all
| them dream things for some O. these
ducks that don't work hard enough tc
git tired. What / was talkin' about
was girls. An it's just like I says
some Of EN- is mighty Gurus. I found
| it out for myself"
| You found it out for YOURSELF"
| Il certainly did"
Some originality to that discovery
all right" said the young man who
works in an architects Office, address.
ing the young nan who sells gas en-
| gines The latter nodded in hearty
| agreement.
Maybe there is and maybe there
amt but it's true" declared the young
| man with the colIuloid collar.
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Il can't. You~-e joshin' me-
'Who, /? Perish the thought. And
you think girls are really curious"
81 know it,
"All Of them?"
Some Of 'em is cur'User than 9th
ers, Of course"
How do you know"
| u seen one out walkin' in the park
| with you last Sunday, an don't think
| ali of 'em would go out walkin' with
you"
Don't laugh at your own attempts
to be funny. Then you think some
| girls are curious because they
wouldn't go out to the park with me :?
Thank you"
No, you don't get my idea at ALL
| | meant it the other way"
You know lot about girls, don't
you? Anybody can see that"
well, l don't know such lot, but
know some
Some giris?"
Yes, some girls, an some about
| girls"
Wise mani"
"Oh, amt so wise; but it takes
a wise girl to fool me any to speak
| Of"
Would 1t be showing undue curios.
ity If | should ask you, for the bene
fit of myself and these others whom
| your remarkable discovery has
| aroused to a pitch of intense excite
ment, what particular incident of the
| present day has caused you to remark
on the curious qualities of girls?"
Il just happened to think of it, no
ticin' Miss Keyboard as she left the
table"
rs Miss Keyboard one of the curl
Gus ones %
| one certainly is.
"She never went to the park with
me-"
An maybe that amt because you
never asked her to, neither"
ITO avoid argument, I will concede
that it is not. In what way does
Miss keyboard strike you as being
curious?"
well, three weeks ago I asked her
| to go to the theater with me an she
| wouldn't because she had an engage
| ment"
Nothing curious. about that
mo, but listen. Two weeks ago
asked her again to go to the theater
with me- An she wouldn't because
she had a headache"
Nothing curious about that"
mo, | know there amt But the
other day asked her to go again
Persistent youth"
And she didn't have no engage
ment."
MOI"
No, an she didn't have no head
ache"
MOI"
mo; an still she wouldn't go. Now,
wasn't that curious?"
THAT was decidedly curious. But
you know so much about girls that 1t
should not seem curious to you, re-
CARELESS Of how it seems to the rest
Of us. You ought to know why she
wouldn't go with you to the theateI
the last time you asked her."
81 ought to know why?"
That's what I said
Maybe you can tell"
Il can. She doesn't want to &c
with you"
by ding! l bet that was it," ex.
claimed the young man with the eel.
luloid collar. "And l never thought
OF it,
"Of course, that was it," declared
the young man who sells gas engines
"Oh, WELL she don't need to be SC
naughty l was only trying to be
nice"
And she was only trying to stay
nice"
You needn't try to get funny.
guess there's a lot Of girls would be
glad to go with me to the theater'
Yes, as you say, girls are GURUS.
Amt they? An she's the cur'ur.
est one I've met"-Chicago Daily
News.