The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-04-18
Very
Unfeminiine
By OSCAR cox

went into Charnley's for lunch the
or day. and while | was eating
N Remerton came in, and | asked
10 sit down at the table with me.
did SO. and / congratulated him on
engagement, of which | had heard
% time before. He didn't look like
han who had just been made happv
girl. but | reckoned he had passed
Of the seventh heaven stage and
wondering how he was going to
port a wife on a salary that he hal
"a spending entirely on himself.
is all off," he said snappishly.
WHATS the troubleT' l asked.
Zee here. Jim; I've had all | want
kirls. They have no sense of honor
ms man has. Fact is there's
hing manly-I mean noble-in EN-
IN. Nothing IA girl likes so much
10 get fellow by the ear and play
for fool That's what Matte
bted with me-"
You haven't yet got to the cause of
breach.
Nell. Molly and | We're out at a
ce. | put my name on her card
every alternate dance, leaving her
nnce with some one else for every
ce with me That was about right,
Init it? She objected. | told her
hight one in two was enough for
other fellows, and she said she
hight that II she danced with me
or three times during the evening
ould be enough for me. | told her
if that was all | was to get I'd
without any. And | scratched my
be OF her card entirely. Do you
w. the girl filled her card without
name being on 1t and was the mer-
girl In the room"
Cery unfeminine.
fou mean very detestable."
What did you do next?"
Why, | left before the dance was
Shed and left her to go home with
e one of the fellows she had pre-
ed to me"
Dh. you did?"
lou bet | did,"
fou had taken her to the dance,
pit your"
les"
What did she do next7'
Eothing
Ind you?
wrote her a note saying that Il
n other fellow had as much right
ance with her as | we'd better call
l."
Ind she?"
he hasn't deigned to send me re
ery unfeminine."
lm." he said. bristling, that's the
md time you've used that expires
I'd like to know what you mean
/"
have used 1t ironically. Fred"
fonically?"
les The girl acted like girl.
acted like ninny."
wv, he knew very well that he had
a guy of himself, and when |
witness to the fact instead of get
up on his ear he collapsed. He
I say word for awhile, but he
Pd like a man who had committed
me and had just realized that the
ens were about to fall on him
first words were:
ve knocked the bottom out of the
Prise"
n, no. YOU haven't"
on don't think soT' eagerly and
beam of hope.
D."
hat shall l do?"
hke a back track as quick as you
ow:"
to her and ask her pardon. Tell
mat you've made an ass Of your
md will never do so any more"
think Id rather write It,"
onsense. Face the music like a
Writing would only show half
led repentance. Speech is better
INK any time and in such cases
llntely better. What's written
pable of various interpretations
Pcaking one has the advantage OF
ns his meaning. In writing there
expression of any kind"
pt suppose she won't see meY'
ans on till she does"
nd suppose she sees me. but turns
own"
hng on all the tighter"
sat deliberating. Presently he
. up at me and said:
o., would rather attack forti-
on single handed. Is there no
way out OF it?"
Pere wouldn't be for me II were
ur place"
Pther season Of screwing up OF
ee, and he rose from his seat.
Dis hat and said:
Podby, Jim. II / fail look for
pdy In the canal"
odhy. Fred. / know just how
eel; I've been there myself"
ted Ike a ckump?"
Ike an inebriated donkey"
same evening the following tele