Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-22
A Bachelor S
Diary
By MAX.

n EPTENIBER 3.-(Being in the form
of a letter which l will write TO
~ Sally Spencer, who is away off Ia
Paris getting served with garlic in the
restaurants. when in her very best
French she had ordered ice cream. and
who is enjoying herself in other ways
Of foreign travel said 10 be so educa-
tiouaI. while ]. who dares to love her.
am up here in the north woods at home
eating Calomel and quinlne out of the
hands of a distTactingly pretty nurse,
which in its way is also educational,
sometimes fatally so, and whiCh-this
time 7 mean the letter. don't intend to
send her and by her I mean sally
Spencer-and all Of which is rather in
coherent. but ! would like to see tbs
color Of the blood in the mans veins
who could write cohercntly with a dis
tractingly pretty nurse lowering about
him, holding his hand longer than il
requires 20 take his temperature, and
changing his pillows every few minutes.
managing to hold his head in the soft
corner of her shoulder while she does
it. and giving him from morning till
night and from night till morning and
especially the latter, a sympathy he
hasn't enjoyed since he ran. as a boy,
10 his mother with sore toe, and
which-the sympathy, not the sore toe
lis so envelopiug and soothing that the
coolest bIoOded man would forget that
he is d millionaire and that love Is al
WAYS for sale and which-and this
time I mean this introductton-ls so
]
intended to spend In writing to Sally)
September IL used TO complain
that the nurse was SO very meChani
cal in her sympathy and attention, but
she is growing more likc a human ard
less Ike Il machine every day. Now
last night when l was having one Of
those paroxysIus Of pain in the back Of
my neck. she rubbed it with both hands
with my face pressed against her Shout
der when she did II, aud then, when
# seemed little better. and she had
put my head bac, on the pillow, she
bent over and kissed me
September 81 sec plainly that /
Will have to- have relapse The Goc-
tor. who came W to sss me YESTERDAY
says thar IN , few weeks 7 WIN he able
10 travel home, and that he will tskS
my nurse away. needing her on some
case OF ten sylIsbles and q postscript
ana which can not he a. interesting as
my case ! asked her If she wanted. TO
lc.ye mo and she said that If CON
tiuued to get better she would have to
She argues she is doing nothing for
me that Richards can't do as well, and
I say that isn't true That kiss. for
| instance. n Richards had given it 20
me-hut She went off into another
laugh, and 7 didn't complete the SEN
| tence
| 20 ann thinking, added. rather in
| tured in feelings, "of asking Richards
To marry me She is so thoroughly
and that" she Interrupted, lis the
| reason YOU viii never ask her to marry
| YOU Men worship saints, but they
J don't marry them Ever know that all
/ the saints were old maids?'
! September 81 haven't written that
, letter to Sally yet, keeping busy these
| days devising some scheme for keep
! way. but ! want to keep her because
! Of her devoted attention TO me, and if
| she were my wife she wouldn't give
! il. Marriage would mean l would have
! to engage another nurse, and my wife
| would see to it that she isn't good
! looking