South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28
SOME TYPES OF MEN
WHO ANNOY WOMEN
BY One of the ANNOYED.

OF course, / know you will say that
because a man may annoy me he is
not necessarily distasteful to you
The truth of this l admit, for do we
not frequently hear an acquaintance
say when referring to a friends mar
rlage, I wonder what she could
have seen in that man to marry
him?
But 1 am not going to deal with
any mans looks, or even defOrmities
in character, but with certain types
of men whose behavior is to my
thinking, positively Objectionable
Consider, for a moment, the young
fellow with about seven hairs or
each side of his upper lip, who thinks
himself an awful dog don't yknow.
He is usually very thin in the chest
and very long in the legs, but he
seems rather proud Of this, for he is
forever showing himself off wheneyer
he gets a chance.
The first Impression he gives YOU IS
that he is remarkably raw" and that
he grew up with great suddennesS
before his time. His back is hoped
and he reminds one very much of
bent car ticket
But what annOys me most is MS
insane character an assumption Of
highly superior air, and an obvious,
contempt for anything beyond cigar
cts and sport. What he does not
know isn't worth knowing. He looks
upon himself as no end of a lady
killer, and thinks all the girls are
dying for him. He never talks 10
girl without interpolating some subtle
suggestion touching the affections.
and which he hasn't the brains to see
is lneXpressibly insulting. And all
the time he stands first on one foot
h. Z,
ms lace which he thinks entertain
ing
He is, in fact a beasuy cad, al
though 1t is due TO him TO state that
ne hasn't the sense to see IL.
Another fellow I can't bear is he
who never rides a bicycle. never
Yields racquet, never plays baseball.
never has an idea, never did anything
particularly, and never says anything
you don't want 10 forget the minute
afterward.
Not only this, but ne is forever
falling in love with some girl on the
slightest preteXt, and everybody
knows that the next week he VIII be
just as mad on somebody else He
doesn't seem 10 possess any stability
or character, and when YOU are tete-
a-tete with him he IS literally "a con
versational stone around your neck.
lie doesn't initiate q subject on
which one could chat until the happy
moment arrives when he drifts or
with somebody else. You have TO
start every conversation. and he is
man with such a barren brain that
any subject introduced is dead before
minute has elapsed. when there en-
sues a silence which can only ne
broken when YOU break fresh ground
10 see whether me viii feruiize on
that. Then there's the bounder who
thinks himself a bit of "a wag. and is
forever digging out and raising from
the dead some old wheeze that was
mercifully buried long before ne was
born. He is great on puus. too. and
thinks nothing Of begging YOU 10 wait
a moment while he trots out some
little phrase that plays on your
words. 40 matter what YOU say he Is
sure 10 break i'm with that reminds
me. and proceed 90 damp ones spir-
its With "a stupid story of which n0
one seems 10 see the point except
himself for he always laughs very
heartily, and expects everybody else
10 do the same.
There are many others. but space
prevents fun descriptions ~ them.