The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-21

|, meanness of mere man, though, said
 the woman who had started the coneersa- ton. 'I really did hear some right in- teresting things. Of course the summer
 girl came in for her snare of blame, and the porch hens didn't fail to score her for her lack of clothes. her spit curls, her
 low neck frocks and her generally hizarres
 get-up''
 T think a girl has perfect right to do anything and wear anything that makes her more attractive" uerended one of the women Tt is her business to enthra,ll
 those of the opposite sex. and wonderful
 must be her ways if she succeeds in some Instances"
 They scored the pretty bathing girls, did the old porch hens. and one day when l they chanced to run upon pretty Flora I McFlimsey sitting the beach in her 1 becoming bathing suit talking confidinsly
 with her best beau who has no love for
 the water, why they just roasted her
 good and propery," the woman said That's all they go to summer resorts 1 for the old cats vehemently exclaimed
 pretty young girl; T hate 'em." Well. anyway they get in their work. said the woman who was telling the story. There was the very prettiest girl l ever
 saw at the beach when I was theiP,
 and it was the funniest thing the way she
 made game of all the men. They trailed after her in punches and ske 1rted out rageously with all of them The porch I hens had it in for her and every time she appeared on the beach in the most stunning of bathing suits, they got their heads together and talked like house a-fire.'
 l They'd talk about anybody" said one
 of the women. "Why. if the Venus de Milo
 were animated into life, thered be some l old women who'd swear that her waist l was too large"
 They'll always be like that" said the | first speaker. But the funniest thing hap I pened about this particular girl 1 ws8 telling you about. Even much al tye porch hens talked about her, they couldn't l help but like her. She had that little way l with her that made friends of women as well as men. She'd stop and hatter and I cajole the old ladies on her way to the I beach and leave them all in q good humor, I laughing at what she said. and they just couldn't help liking her. All except one. l She was the funniest thing l ever saw. l She was at the hotel with her old bach I elor brother and he had fallen head over
 heels in love with the pretty firt This
 maiden lady was almost beside herself. | She of course, thought her brother was 1 the most attractive thing in the whole
 wide world and she felt sure the girl
 would say Yes to him. She just knew
 she couldn't resist him.
 All maiden sisters feel that way about their perfectly good brothers" suggested one of the group. Well, anyway, the maiden lady was l frustrated beyond words one day when one of the old hens related a bit of repar- l tee that was going the rounds of the 1 hotel about the pretty girl and the pro- I lessor. It just settled the maiden lady.
 She knew after that that. she would have
 the young thing for a sister-in-law. It seems that she was talking to the willy professor. who, over his stern looking 1 spectacles, gazed at her peachy skin and l violet eyes in rapt admiration. The girl | got very serious when she was talking
 to the professor and pretended to be in l terested in all sorts of book learnin and i everything literary and scientific. One day they were talking about the quail | ties that go to make up the body. Said 1 the professor:
 l And do you know, that even sulphur 1 has been found in the human body?' Sulphur. exclaimed the iirt, and | then interestedy inquired. How much sulphur do you suppose Is in a girls l body?'
 "The professor, greatly complimented
 at her very evident interest in his great l learning, said quickly:
 Various quantitiesn
 l "'Oh, l see.' said the pretty girl. I SUD- 1 pose that's why some of us make better matches than othersi "
 'sWasn't that clever?' asked the woman 1 who was telling the story as the crowd l disbanded to mediate upon the young l womans wit