The Washington herald., 1916-06-18
TYPES
By SARA MOORE.
METHOD.


Temperament is so useful unused the
blond. She was gazing wistfully at
chocolate matted milk and reluctantly
slipping a lemon soda Her pensive eN-
preston was a combination of philo-
sophie brooding and self-denial praCticed
in the presence of tempting sweet things.
Yes" agreed the thin brunette. who
.ened to be wading through the choco-
late matted milk in a desperate attempt
to live Up to dietary wisdom. 1T enables
| one to overcome so many ordinary imi-
| tations standardized woman would
need a pail and a scrubbing brush to
clean floors, but. being unhampered by
| traditions, we did just as good job with
J tools that were at hand-a rose bowl and
an ex-nail brush"
That wasn't temperament That was
necessity mothering invention l mean
| for instance, have the city editor scared
| to death of me because 1 have been ju-
| dicially temperamentaliZing. And he is
bound to be nicer to me than he would
be to an ordinary dub"
| "A temperamentsl reporter"
| Yes. He asked me to take subur-
ban news over the phone this morn
ing and I nearly suffocated in the
| booth because some one had peen
| smoking Turkish cigarettes. 1 knew
the same man would call again In an
other hour and I did not intend to
take any more dictstion II could
get out of It So I stuck my hand
| in my pompadour and announced dra-
| matfcally that I could not stand that
mans voice and that II ever had
to listen to It again I'd go stark, raw
Ing crazy
| And It workedr
Certainly. II had scolded about
the cigarette smoke he would have is-
nored It and thought me fussy, bother
some, womanish. object to a mans
voice and he thinks I am as hard to
manage as a grand opera singer and
takes a big pride In being able to
handle me just-right"
It see
"'of course you do. We all have our
methods And It is perfectly legiti-
mate to use them"
But" said the third girl, who had
been slipping ginger ale.
mo, It, isn't unfair" interrupted the
brunette Don't the men bully US with
their Mttle poses and their little bluffs
"And-don't we like it7'' added the
blond.
The girl who drank ginger ale relapsed
into silence. But three weeks later hei
enSagement was announced. In four
|
back from the honeymoon trip the blonc
land brunette found her alone when they
> went to call.
"It never would have happened II yor
had not given me a hint that day yoC
talked about method" she told them.
Did you-temperamentaliz gaspec
the blond. Both girls know that tenn
peramentalizing takes imagination AND
originality. The bride was one Of thos,
women who have so little Imagination
she could peer into a pantry filled with
odds and ends Of cold meat mayonnaise
vegetables. Jam, potatoes, fish. cheese
and pineapple without longing to invent
a new salad.
/, mo. That was your method. IL tus
became helpless" she confessed.
And she had. There was not common
sense heel in her wardrobe. Her check,
book and household accounts would hav.
made a third-grade pupil fail to pas.
In arithmetic. maid had to hooI
her into things and she telephoned to hel
husband to please get her some theatel
tickets and order what he wanted fol
dinner. Her friends gazed in awe at tn,
display Of dramatic ability, for the youni
> person had once been competent enough
to earn thirty dollars a week as prtvat,
: secretary to a most exscting busines,
man.
However did you manage to hit OF
= this poser they whispered enviously
The bride spread her gauze-like drap
cries on a satin couch and thrust out he,
!, silken slippers lazily.
"why-I had an engagement to 20 Il
, dinner with Bob. and met him just afte
I left you. I cut across Thirty-fourtl
. lstreet with him, and as usual swun,
!. : along and lodged the traffo without
thought of any one else. When he caugh
up to me and tried to steer me, pulled
iaway-you know how much easier II 4
to look after yourself when you are in ,
whirl of motors and street cars ant
horses. But something in the look tina
: came over his face. Well. Yo,
; know how It Is. He-he Just wanted t
be a protector
And you let him protect"
u let him protect. I came home an
10 threw away every independent lookinl
re tailored suit I had in my wardrobe, an,
all my walking shoes. He came to Sc
! me four times a week after that, and
% soon after we were engaged"
= You just acted helpless"
And adniring. Do you know, girls,
rs have an idea that he'll get tired of baby
r ing me and 1t will be safe to show tina
n have some brains-eay IN six months o
!. a year from now. For by that time h
= won't need to have his feeling of pro
ar tectorship artihcially fostered- But, s
fr-and have been married fou
]. months, remember-I haven't done on
sensible thing in public And II 1t 1
i wrong l am paying a great enough pen
q atty. Being helpless, for a modern won
IA an, is certainly an awful strain"
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