The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-15
Confessions
TSWi&o/s
SOME OF DONNA's ExPERI-
ENCES

Later in the evening Donna
and l went back to the discus
sion of mems attitude toward
widows. Donna had told me that
many men had tried to take ad-
vantage of her widowhood and /
said to her that l could see how
such advances might make
woman hate all men.
Not at all, Margie," she said.
"Some of these very men have
become my dearest and most
sympathetic friends.
"But-but-" l sputtered.
my dear girl, you think you
know a lot about the world, but
really you know nothing at all.
How could you? For years you
have been cared for and protect
ed In your home, feted and made
much of by your friends and
Dicks. oh. yes, know that for
four years before you were mar
ried you were a school teacher
You were very young then and
singularly innocent. You prob
ably misunderstood much that
was going on about you.
'If you were to become a
widow now, Margie, as good look
ing as you are, as young and as
we'll to do, you would soon be
able to tell very different stories.
Do you know, Margie, that since
IL have been a widow only two
men, married or single, have been
with me alone for any length of
time without trying to kiss me?
Zone of these men was very
young, but he did not put up the
excuse that | reminded him of his
mothers youngest sister, his ia
vorite aunt, or make any Of the
Ingenious excuses that most Of
the young men put up when they
slyly try to slip their arms about
my waist.
THE other man was in the
prime of life and he has always
been very attentive to me. In
fact, Margie, he has treated me
with such unfailing respect and
Difference that / have really at
times wondered why he was the
one exception that proved the
rule.
81 was invited the other evcn-
ing to dinner party at the
= restaurant and when
was leaving to go home l found
that the man who had sat next to
me, a very charming converse
tionalist, and with whom l had
been rather taken, came out to
the door at the same time l did.
II saw that he was annoyed be-
cause his car was not there, and
II said, Where do you live, Mr..
-? Can l not put you
down at your club or your home?
l live up town and IL you are go
ing my way l will be glad to
take ysu in my carp
1--WE had hardly gotten in my
lear and comfortably settled when
THAT man tried to put his arm
labout me. AS / drew back into
the very corner of my car, l said,
DO you know, Mr.. -, l
am bit curious to know why
you thought you might take such
liberties with me on such ex-
Itremely slight acquaintance? Was
1t because you thought I was Of
fering you an invitation In ask
ing you to share my car or is 1t
because I am a widow? Do you
do this kind of thing with all
married women?'
My dear MIS- Tenney,' he
said, with the utmost seriousness,
1T Is q compliment I pay to all
widows. Some accept 1t and
some refuse as you have done.
But either way, have done my
duty and no harm DONE
Having a great sense of hui
NOR, Margie, / could not resist
laughing. but do you know that
blessed donkey of man could not
laugh with me? He accepted my
refusal of his embrace with more
or less good grace, but that l
should consider his motives
ridiculous hurt his masculine ego
tism and he never said another
word to me until I let him out at
his club, when he thanked me very
formally, and I haven't seen him
since.
| THAT is just one episode In
the continual stream of such expe-
riences that happen to me. Some
times man has more depth and
he will discuss life and woman's
problems with me, and we
emerge from what threatened to
be disagreeable situation quite
good friends"
Ito BE Continued.)