The Washington times., 1916-01-29
Where Does 1t Come
From? The Divine Folly
OF Youthful Lo0ers
Winifred Black Compares Tea With PAR of Fools .
and That With Clubman and Woman
of the World.
By w1NIFRED BLACK.

HAD tea with the woman of the
world and the club man yester-
day.
It was a beautiful tea. The
mullins were toasted to exactly the
right brown, the butter was sweet
and fresh. and there was plenty OF
IL; the tea was neither as strong as
lye nor as weak as water, and the
sandwiches were perfection in the
sandwich line.
The woman Of the world saw to that.
The waiter was a paragon of all the
virtues in the walters class. He
didn't shuttle and he didn't strut, and
he neither slung nor sidled. He was
not there when you didn't want him,
and he was there when you aid want
him. He didn't rattle the dishes or
tinkle the silver and he was neither
Insolently veiled of eye nor obsequi-
ously supple of person.
Oh, q perfect waiter! The club man
saw to that
And then the conversation-it was
so interesting!
We began with the new dresses and
how short they were, and the club man
told story that was meant to be funny
ana was only rather disagreeable. The
woman of the world told him that he
was shocking and tried to blush, and
the club man stEaightened himself and
settled his collar and looked particu-
larry wicked and outrageously wise, and
I-stirred my tea.
Then we spoke of the new kinds OF
boots with fur around the top, and the
woman Of the world told a story. Some
one had told it to her, she said, and
she pretended that she didn't know
what 1t meant. 1 really didn't know,
but the club man did, and 1 could see
him committing 1t to memory for the
next tea.
Then we arrived at the last new play.
and the first new novel or the season.
Oh, such a very frank novel-one of
the sort they call daring-and you keep
wondering how the woman who wrote
It Is ever going to explain where she got
all the detailed information. And. by
easy stages, we came-quite as mat
ter of course-to the boy and the girl.
II can't think said the woman of
the world, Il really can't even try to
think. what on earth IL the matter with
''She has lovely home, two fine
brotherh and. q father who lies down
and let's her walk on him, and two men
running aLleT HGT WHO arc crazy
about her. One Of them is poor. but
he's in, the army. and it's rather smart
for an army officer to be poor. and the
other is simply made OF money. and
here she is determined to marry that
idiot OF a boy.
'TIe hasn't cent to his name, and
he'll have to work for his living. And
they're going West-way out West--and
live In hut or a tent, or something.
He won't even. stay here and 60 into
the business with his uncle.
"Of course, he's awfully nice and
rather good looking and dead in love
with her. What difference do things
like that make, really? '
ITO be sure, / know he's your nephew.
Mr.. Club Man. but you're too much of
man OF the world not to understand
my point of view. What on earth do
YOU make of it all? Can't you do some
thing to stop it?"
Hell Come To His Senses"
do somethingw The man of the
world fairly purpled. he was so in
dignant why, I'd do anything to
put stop to such nonsense! I've had
him up to the club three times. I
promised to get him in. and do you
know the poor fool said he had no
use for club, and I'll tell you plain
ly, II he is my nephew, the club had
no use for him. All he did was to sit