Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-05-27

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has been one-half SO pitiful as the as.
tonished gratitude OF, the right-minded
male when he finds that the one fe.
male for whom he. has begun. con.
sciously or without his knowledge. to
A live his life and do his. deeds, does not
utterly condemn him when he has
done his level best and that best has
been worthy. Men are the worlds nat.
ural 1come-ons, ;" women the worlds
natural vendors OF psychological, SEN
j timental and often very raw gold
bricks. X Il ERR VI
So when Josie soulfully declared
that she had known he would, Broad
way did not let it pass with an unap-
preciative, "Of course you did, but
looked at her with gratitude alight in
his pleased face and humbly queried,
did you?" ,} *tT
For moment the fact that she de.
clared that she had known he would be
decent and not villainously selfish so
completely overwhelmed him (and
please do not forget that she, within a
minute, had admitted that she thought
him capable of basest selfshness) that
he could not find words with which to
proceed conversationally. All men are
that way. ri. ..s.5 SRI s.: ss
But presently he recovered self-pos-
session and continued: I'M NJ
Nov, l don't know anything about
business, and l don't know anything
about money. never. did a days work
in my life for the simple reason that !
never had to-
He looked at her with shamed
smile, the first evidence that he had
ever shown of anything but pride in
his ability to live idly with enormous
and successful effort. III I:
THE only trial Of skill into which /
have entered since i went from Jones.
vile to New York has been q general.
endless contest with the world at large
to see which could stay up the latest.
have generally won-won in a walk 4
She was listening intently. All wom-
en- are intent to breathlessness when
they are hearing any man tell his un-
worthiness: II. there is a hint Of con-
fessioh of real wickedness in his decla-
ration they will listen with an absorb
ton which approaches a hypnotic
trance. t s.5
'I'ye never done anything good, be-
cause I've never had anything good to
do Broadway went on, before he
reached the next full stop. , & n % ,5S
She sat absolutely spellbound. Did
she feel a vivid hope that he would go
into detail Of the things which he had
done which we're not good? Such re-
citals always pain good women ex-
quisitely, yet they never shun them.
never interrupt them--never. by the
way, forget them or fail to have them
at their tongues ends afterwards,
when, by recalling them, they can
abash the man who IN . moment OF I'M
guarded foolishness has made them.
But Broadway told no details of: his
villainies. This was not .brilliance on
his part; it was sheer luck.
II she was definitely disappointed
her distress was more or less allevi.
,ated the next moment, for he burst
forth somewhat wildly: n .ss3 sfs !s$
What I've needed all along was an
incentive something to spur me on
something to inspire me. What I've
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ana drew forth the n,nar IN which "a
had Iabored with suchI as.idmify and
such 4 ten,ely work,nr cheek man,nu.
latinR tongue IN the ANAL hours that
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