The chronicle=news. (Trinidad, Colo.) 1898-current, 1914-12-09


who very evidently work for their
living and are just as nice and mod
est us my own daughtcrs-whcn
see them have to shave down the las.
penny for the privilege of dining
.mcagerly in Il place like this, well. it
makes me feel like Il selfish old gour-
met. And yet ! suppose it would be
impossible to make the world believe
my motives were | to put those girls
in my motor car and rush them of
for ii moonlight ride and supper at
ClaremOnt.
ALIAS, | had to agree with the
Judge that the world would be likely
to attribute an entirely different mo-
tive to his philanthropy. Yet Broad
way restaurants are full of men every
night spending money on girls with
precisely the same motives as my
friends would have been-that Is inc
Measure of watching the game ana
the feeling that he is the god in the
machine.
THE type of man whom the sala-
mander scultivatcs is always good
snort, and being such he Is perfect
ly willing to play the part of lobster.
He Is no petty egotist. He is big.
broad and generous enough to know
his precise place in the salamandcra
scheme OF life. All he demands OF
her is that she shall be pretty and
interesting, but never serious.
The adventures is the woman
who will not hesitate TO drain him
financially, but will involve him in
the Quagmirc of u divorce court or
breach of promise suit. So he con-
sidcrs he is Il lucky dog who is Slad
to accept his money and his atten-
lions. in the spirit in which they are.
given. The privilege of putting him
in hot water and keeping him there
as long as she wants and OF generally
treating him as though he had no
more sensation than lobster-wcll,
that's part of the salamander's con-
tract"
When the question arose rs to
what part OF the country furnished
the largest number of recruits TO
sa lamanderland. Mr.. johnson looked
frantically toward the open window.
That's delicate question, he
replied, land my answer is given on
/! ly in Il cross your-heart that iii for
gotten when you leave this room
The fact is. they come from the south
most of all.
"rhc southern girls are natural
born salamandcrs. They are MS, u
class, pretty and rcfincd, and used at
home to receiving the empty com
pliments and harmless Sallan,ry OF
mon. Every year hundreds of thes"
pretty southern girls come to New
York to dabble in some occupation
which will insure them their living
expenses and an opportunity of get
ting married-prcierably to some
rich man. They make gigantic
success as salamanders and after two
or three years finish up by capturing
n desirable husband.
After the southern girl the girl
from the middle west makes the most
successful salamnnder career. The
latter is not SO likely to ,make d good
match. however. as her southern Sis
ter. in lieu of which she usually set
ties down to real work after two or
three years of playing with fire.
:
oh, dear me, yes was the hasty
answer The salamandcr not only
marries but She usually becomes a
model wife and mother. and very
conservative socially. living thor
oughly conventional life and dying in
The odor of sanctity.
Here the telephone rang, It was
the sclwynn offices, with u hurrT
call for the author to go up ana in
.pect bevy of one hundred young
actresses, all applicants for the dozen
or more roles in the dramatic version
Of THE Salamandcr, which is to pr
presented the coming season.
DO YOU know what every one OF
those hundred girls will tell me?
That She herself is a salamander Just
Ike my girls in the book. They VIII
al tell me of their own personal eX-
ericnccs in trading orchids. jcwclrE,
ilk stocks, furs, any and every sort
Of gift in exchange for cash. These
and hundred other salamander
tricks they will confess to offering
them as credentials for the job o.
playing the same part on the stage.
ATPH SOu all tII' ~ ioic-'N>@'
Research society will denouncc you
IS Il nature faker when they discov-
or that your findings do not square
with the theory upon which they
have based their white slave asita-
ton"
white slavery" cried owen john
son. why there isn't such thing
Tile good people whose zeal in this
direction has carried them Off Their
feet do not take one very important
fact into their calculations. and thal
is that girls will be girls Just AS
reformer of this kind would be sure
to misinterpret salamandcr were lie
to meet her in a Broadway restaur-
ant, so. too, do | think he frequently
misinterprcts the signs by which ne
puts many another girl in the cate
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