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

n . HIST winter become no more than
4 memory. She has written me many
mes since our return, and all these
.,rers I have shown to my Official
Guide.
- that night. Il was looking for
Rard.' she said, TO a happy evening
- the most Congenial man l ever
Knew,
H. the second letter, that you ran
r. because you thought 1 would
4 M off with you to a preacher and
i ,arrv YOU in spite of your screams.
n how YOU have misjudged me, my
ksar7st friend! I would not marry
#NY man.
q This caused me to sit up and Won
s- but my Official Guide explained
Farft was only part of a clever wom-
l. game. When a woman says she
1uldn't marry ANY man, the man to
e nam she says it wants to find out
sEa means it, so he offers himself to
4 rove il I had a momentary desire to
Il rova the widow was wrong when
- that letter, but it soon van
In rhe third letter she mentioned a
~ Lane, of San Francisco, who in
Hrded to stay only two days, but
Atbo had decided to prolong his visit.
Il Il will not tell you why, you Dear
n Man" she wrote, but there are
hen who are not afraid and don't run
4way"
4te. said to the Spencers, to have
A woman call me a coward"
fhe Brave Coward.
4 aBut YOU are one" said Mrs. Jack,
- am proud of you. 1t takes a
&rave man to be a coward Where
4aman is concerned"
That may be true, but / don't like
be compared so unfavorably with
Lis sam Lane. ! looked him up IN
fradstreet and found no mention OF
4 I'M sn he can't be much of a man.
She said so much about sam Lane
the fourth letter that in my re-
Z. * / asked her to send me the story
i his life
4 She did not reply for so long that
.bagan to fear that all danger con- ]
aeated with the widow was past. l
I b that word fear" advisedly. The |
4 snger of that woman has been the |
hsatest enjoyment l have had in a |
sar
III the fifth letter she paid no heed |
a ms sarcasm. She wrote to say she |
sould be passing through here on the |
and would / meet her? she /
Mould have, she said, four hours be- /
cen trains, and she would be alone; |
Would ! meet her? Diary, l would |
b miss it. / told this to Mrs. |
.k. and she looked little worried
March 23-I rather surprised my
y to-day at the state of excitement
was i'm because of the prospect OF
betting the widow. l don't love her'
nary. I never would or could love a /
H0man of ner type, but there is no |
#ryiug she viii be an agreeable /
\ ange in my domestic monotony.
ann happy here, but it is a sort Of .
ag8tive happiness. | have perfect I
\ ordered home. Manette Is JOY 7
B. her brown-eyed pup IS an excite /
Mt. but loving her and resculng the 4
Dr. from larger dogs, and the cats /
Nom the pups, don't suffice \
want the exhilaration of "a little (
Arsoral danger on my own account /
D. the widow supplies 1t.
Her train was due at 3. l planned 7
4 meet her. take her out to dinner /
b. for a ride till her train left at I.
learned that a later train left at = /
b had some dreams connected WITH I
t train Then ] got telegram (
&ying she had decided to go home /
N another route.
felt just az a boy feels when he Is 1
that if he eXplodes cannon /
II .Eer il will blow off his fingers,
he lights il and it fails TO go of. /
Preserve closets and cannon crack 7
IN are mixed metaphors to use In /
Htug of the widow, but somehow /
" fit the case. 1
March 2S-I am thinking of putting !
advertisement in some matr.-
spuiaI sheet: I
Il Wgnted--A wife. She must have /
mind and heart that contain no /
publications of up-to-dateness. She /
list Doe concerned with no problems I
industry or of sociology. She must
a Yer explore any psychological trails,
D. must love me, but not so much II
PM last. / do not require her TO be
n BE-, and wholesome. I want her to
D. matrimony with no pre-con-
H vei notions that II IS to he platonic
Handship. 1 want a human being
n an icicle
Pc Must Be Satisfied.
Z want a wife who win not shirk
Eftsruity. and who viii be happy in
Il privilege, satisfied that she is full
Nlng her highest destiny. In re
~ for her love and devotion, l win .
her love and devotion, and every
4 dom from worry and work that
"a wealth can command.
Address Max. etc
our hours later: I had made this
4 i} DO my diary, and was wonder
q What / could do to occupy the I
= hours till bedtime (the Spen-
being away. waen the telephone
moment later Tompkins said
wanted. When I said, Hello /
-Tseted with a faugh. and very
ar voice said. "Oh YOU dearest
Don't you know who this is2'
knew; Of course, l knew. And
voice sounded good 10 me, for
lonesome, and it is lonesOmeness,
'1au anything else in the world,
iohs man of his senses.