Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-02-17
Inconsistent

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| masculine listener.
Il do not. I meant just what said!
Why, woman would have to work all
day and then overtime to be as incon-
| sistent as a man can be in one short
hour! I suppose you hate the present
feminine fashions?"
"Of all the insane, idiotic and homely
styles" began the unwary masculine
| listener, confused by her sudden
switch of conversation.
"Turaloo!" chortIed the girl who
| likes to talk. "Of course, you do!
| You spend all your spare time raVing
about them and thinking up cutting
things to say about the women who
deck themselves SO! You wonder
and you are seized with fear as to
future and you are panied and regret
| to observe!
at seems to you woman is degener-
ating and you would like to know what
the world is coming to and why some
woman with brains and modesty does
MT arise an6 defy these arbiters of
| fashion and dress as men would like
| to see her do.
"Say-Pd just like to see the inside
| of your head sometime when you've
invited me to go to the theater and |
came downstairs attired in gathered
skirt five yards around the bottom
| edge, flat-heeled shoes and poke bon
net with a ribbon band that was wGrs
ranted not to jab out any ones eyes OK
to require the elevating of the cab
roof. If you didn't have a sudden fit
of illness on the spot to prevent your
going I'd be awfully surprised. You
know perfectly well that you'd never
have the nerve to walk down Michigan
avenue with a girl who was so differ
ent from everyone else that she was a
! regular procession! Now, would you?"
"Well," began the masculine listen
| er, frowning, / think you are some
what extreme"
"You have to be-" she said ruthless
! Iy. 81 fyou aren't freak of fashion
you have to be a trump because you
aren't! And I suppose you approve Of
! the domestic woman? You'd like to
know what the modern girls mean by
! frivCling their time away playing
| bridge and hunting bargains and going
TO matinees and crowding to be mani
cured instead of doing it themselves,
and eating chocolate creams while
mother irons their party dresses!
Don't open your mouth that way,
because those are your very words! l
never heard you say them, but no man
except a deaf and dumb one ever
crews to be thirty without having tn. !,
kind of an attack! Pretty soor they'll
vaccinate against it.
"The worst cases moan end sob be-
cause the modern woman doesn't put
up preserves and sugar-cure the hams
and recommend camphorated oil If any
one sniffles! How long would you last
| if you came to call on me and l en-
tertained you with sprightly account
of how | peeled onions for dinner and
cleaned the top shelves in the pantry
and how the juice boiled over on the
currants and burned and, anyhow, |
was afraid the stuff was not going to
| Iceland that tomorrow If the sun
sEone intended hanging out all the
woolens to prevent moths?'
"Say!" protested the masculine lis
tenor. He got no farther
81 am" the girl who likes to talk
told him. "The modern woman does
all those things, of course, if she is
any kind of a housekeeper-bu she
keeps it dark! Size entertains you with
her frivoli.gs! The lady who curel
hams and made candies didn't frivol
because she hadn't time, an somehow
think the men these days must have
led terribly dull lives. And you do
admire the economical girl, the sort
who thinks twice before she spends
rapa's pennies. She says, Yes, dear
father and makes over her year be-
fore last best dress instead Of nagglng
the poor old gentleman into his grave
to buy her something better than any
one else has, | don't notice you
1locking in her wake, however! You
are right beside little brighteyes in
the slit skirt about twenty inches
wide, AID the hat with a foot and a
half anaemic feather on it that is war
ranted to jab out every eye within a
block! Now, if the harboring of all
these contradictory sentiments is not
being ,inconc.
81 IN bowed to the ground" said
the masculine listener. eff you ill
Ii ten acutely you can hear my deli
cately strained walls of anguish! l
like your conversation, but I'll be
anged if I Ike your topics! Come
on, let's go to the theater! And I'll
dare you to wear poke bonnet"
81 wouldn't be caught dead in one!"
declared the girl who likes to talk.
mYnn,ra perfectly safeI'