The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-16
JIM DESCRIBES A
CERTAIN KIND OF WOMAN

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Good Lord, Jim. You are a
dandy person to introduce into a
sick ROOM" exclaimed Dick as
Jim stopped for breath after ex-
planning his theory of the way
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brought you over here to help
cheer Margie up and you go off
into the tragedy of something you
call facing facts
For heaven sakes, man, have a
heart,
DO you know, there is only one
cure for your morbid cynicism,
and that is for you to get married
yourself. Why don't you marry
little Mabel Dinsmore? I've seen
you around with her a lot lately"
| pricked up my ears. Was
dear old Jim hunting his bone"
again. l remembered she was
very young, very pretty and it
seemed to me very silly. I looked
up and said, Are you thinking of
marrying her, jim?
Not in a thousand years-she
is altogether too flossy."
"Flossy-flossy," repeated Dick;
what under the light of the
shining sun, man, do you mean
by flossy."
Well" drawled Jim, and his
eyes twinkled. "She is the kind
of a girl, Dick, that wouldn't
wear a porous plaster without
running baby ribbon through the
holes"
Even my demure little nurse
smiled at this description. which
to me not only described Miss
Dinsmore, but a lot of other fussy
and flossy young women.
You could not get Jim out of
his serious mood, however. and he
continued.
Outside of my objections to
girl with the porous plaster baby
ribbon tendencies, / tell you folks
l am afraid to get married.
don't mind telling you that. Id
like the home and the kids and
all that, but suppose-well sup
posed I'd fall in love again after
| was married."
"Oh, for heaven sake cut all
that sentimental stuff" growled
Dick. Don't you understand
that is what marriage is for, to
keep a man from making a fool
of himself any more often than
necessary.
why, let me tell you, Jim, IL
a man and woman-now mind
you, / am bringing woman into
this AFFAIR." say If man and
woman could love only once there
would be no need of the marriage
ceremony"
My little nurse and l looked at
each other in surprise and al
most CONSERVATION, and I think
it dawned on her as 1t did on me
that Dick was right.
Jim, too, seemed impressed.
Then you think that marriage is
an unnatural institution, Dick?"
he asked
Now look here, Jim, please
don't assume a virtue that you
haven't got; you haven't trailed
around with all this married
crowd for ten years without see
ing that like everything else that
lives marriage grows old - its
freshness goes
"Oh, Dick" sighed.
That's all right, honey" he
said, coming over to me. "You
and | know that growing old isn't
the worst thing in the world.
Neither is marriage such an
awful institution, although it is
as you say, not just love-"
Sometimes" said Jim, my
observation has led me to believe
that it is very much like that
place We only allow the adult
tongue to name and which only
the adult heart can conceive"
oh. hell" exclaimed Dick dis
gustedly-
you've guessed It," remarked
Jim with a grin.
"Margie, I'm going home and
going to bed, and I'm going to
take this idiot with me. Don't
you think about this conversation
tonight. Just remember that per-
haps tomorrow when the doctors
come in they will say you can go
home"
And will you want me there,
Dick, even like this?"
Dear heart, l never, until you
have been here, know how much
| wanted YOU"
stop your spooning and come