El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-18
The Diary of A Bachelor
Writes of an Imaginary Conference
Between Himself and Sally and
Reveals His Feelings.

4 UGUST 3O.-(Being in the form
! n of a suppOsititious dialog be-
tween Sally Spencer and myself
! She is away off in Paris. absorbed in
the vanities of this world. and I am
| a helpless invalid, confined TO a cot
tage in the northermost woods of this
country)
Sally: Il can stay only a short time,
Max. had to wait a few minutes in
the Bon Marche for a fitting, and
thought I would make mental visit
with you while waiting. Eo= are you,
my dear? You look like a mummy
with all those blankets and rugs
around you. but not as sick as I had
expected. Perhaps that pretty nurse
you have written so much about is pro-
longing your illness with a motive"
Max; 1t is possible that the motive
is on my side"
Sally: You don't mean to say, Max,
that you have become such an imbe-
Gle that you condemn yourself to
cushions and calOmel and airbags for
the pleasure you get in having some
silly girl wipe your face and hands and
look soicitous when you sigh"
Max: You are losing your tact The
right way TO talk TO man when he
Is SICK is to call him a martyr and
a hero instead of an imbecile."
soothing syrup that nurse hands to
you? l see it is time I came home
from Paris and took you in charge.
HOW many, many times, are you go
ing to make it necessary for me to save
you from other women"
Max: Save me for whom?''
1t Stops.
tIhe rocker, which had swayed rap
IDLY when the imaginary Sally was
scolding me, stopped short There is
silence Then it begins to sway
again, but the imaginary Sally has
turned her head so that I cannot see
her face, and she changes the sub
Ject when she begins talking.)
sally; I suppose YOU know that Jack
IS with me in Paris2 That means I
have something more to do than to
there, too"
Max: You did not say for whom you
want to save me?''
Sally: 4 am most cordial with her
So cordial and so delighted when hear
Jack is with her that he is growing
suspicious. He asked me this morning
when dressing for breakfast if I was
growing tired Of him and wanted to get
rid of him"
Max: DO you?"
Sally: Il hope you will be satisfied
with the winter clothes 1 bought for
Manette. They cost more than ever
baby to be confined to the company Of
her nurse and governess, and must
dress better. You will laugh when
tell you there is a party dress
Max: 4 don't care what you bought
never care 1t doesn't interest me
and never has, and you know 1 never
look at the bills. The nurse says
Sally: And 1 don't care what the
nurse says. I think it very unkind in
you, Max, to quote that nurse to me
when 1 have such a short time to stay
have "A good notion to come back
home and discharge her. You are able
to travel now. and can be taken home
where Richard and Tompkins and 1
can nurse you. or get man nurse for
that matter"
No Men Wanted.
Max: 'I don't want a man nurse.
There would be none of that delight
full sense of danger with man nurse.
and 1 refuse to have one tancy me
getting lonely in the long hours OF
the night and calling for my nurse
to come and sit beside me and smooth
my forehead and hold my hand, and
having a great big ugly Whlskered
man appear"
Sally: ct is all a tangle, my life |
and Jacks and yours, 1 have tried 10 |
hard to be good, Max, but with nus
band who strays after every new pet
ticOat, and whom I can'G love Wltncut
compelling myself to love MIN, ana 1
with the man 90 love throwing MINI
self away on woman who can never /
care for him as I have cared for years |