Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-12
A Bachelor S
Diary
By MAX.

EARCH 20.-Mrs Spencer was
M right. The widow does not in
~ tend to let our semi Irritation
of last winter become no more than
q memory. She has written me many
times since our return, and all these
letters have shown to my Official
Guide.
sne reproaches me with having run
away that night. 81 was looking for
~-srd." she said, ''to a happy evening
with the most congenial man l ever
confess, you dear man." she says
in the second letter, that you ran
away because you thought I would
RIM off with you to a preacher and
marry you in spite of your screams.
All. how you have misjudged me, my
dearest friend 1 would not marry
ANY man."
This caused me to sit up and Won
der but my Official Guide explained
tbat it was only part of a clever wom-
ANS game. When a woman says she
couldn't marry ANY man, the man to
--bnm she says it wants to find out
4 she means it, so he offers himself to
sroye il. had a momentary desire to
Irove the widow was wrong when |
read that letter, but it soon van
ished
In the third letter she mentioned a
sam Lane, of San Francisco, who in
tended to stay only two days, but
who had decided to prOlong his visit.
q will not tell you why, you Dear
EST Man" she wrote, but there are
men who are not afraid and don't run
away"
That rather nettled me. II don't
like" l said to the Spencers, ito have
a woman call me a coward
The Brave Coward.
But YOU are one" said Mrs. Jack,
"aud I am proud of you. 1t takes a
brave man to be a coward where a
woman is concerned"
That may be true, but don't IKE
IN be compared so unfavorably with
his sam Lane. l looked him up in
Bradstreet and found no mention of
him. so he can't be much of man.
She said so much about Sam Lane
I'm the fourth letter that in my re-
pIy / asked her to send me the story
of his life.
She did not reply for so long that
hogan to fear that all danger con-
rected with the widow was past. l
use that word fear advisedly. The
danger of that woman has been the
greatest enjoyment l have had IN a
year
In the fifth letter she paid no heed
10 INV sarcasm. She wrote to say she
would be passing through here on the
g3d and would l meet herr she
would have. she said, four hours be-
tween trains. and she would be alone.
Would l meet her? Diary, | would
NOT miss it. ! told this to Mrs.
Jack, and she looked a little worried.
March 81 rather surprised my
self to-day at the state of excitement
was in because Of the prospect OF
meeting the widow. l don't love her,
Diary; I never would or could love a
woman of ner type, but there is no
DENYING she will be an agreeable
change in my domestic monotony.
am happy here but it is sort Of
negative happiness. ! have a perfect
~ ordered home. Manette Is JOY
and her brown eyed pup is an excite
mant. but loving her and rescuing the
pup from larger dogs, and the cats
rom the pups, don't suffice.
want the exhilaration of a little
PERSONAL danger on my own account
and the widow supplies IT,
Her train was due at 3. ] planned
60 meet her, take her out to dinner
and for a ride till her train left at Z.
learned that a later train left at y
and had some dreams connected with
that train. Then / got "a telegram
saving she had decided TO go home
4 ny another route,
felt Just as "A boy feels when he Is
told that if he eXplodes cannon
cracker it will blow off his fingers,
i and he lights it and il fails to go of!
Preserve closets and cannon crack
r- are mixed metaphors to use IN
4 writing of the widow, but somehow
4 they fit the case.
March Isl am thinking Of putting
this advertisement in some matri-
h mOnial sheet:
"Wanted-A wife. She must have
q mind and heart that contain no
4 implications of up-to-dateness. She
H mast be concerned with no problems
i of industry or of sociology. She must
4 never explore any psychological tran 5.
n She must love me, but not so much II
4 won't last I do not require her 10 be
E sweet and wholesome. | want her TO
enter matrimony with no pre-con-
4 geiyed notions that Il IS to be.platonic
q friendship. ! want a human being,
| NOT an iCip1a