The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-04-09

him II you want TO-" says. "but, gee.
don't sympathize with him!''
How little you understand" she says,
"the mystery of the soul and its pitiful blind
cropping for the light through the devious
paths Of darkness" she says. "He can
be reclaimed" she says, and her eyes got
all wet and shiny like hungry kids lookin'
at a mince pie. "What a victory, what q
proof Of the truth of my theories - she says.
I didn't know what she was talking about
any more than she did, but knew the look.
She had mai on the brain or at least she
thought Freddie was a man, and it counted
up just the same. That kind of look on a
woman's face is just the same as a scowl at
an Irish picnic-it means trouble coming.
They may be thinking of hugging him or re-
forming him or darning his socks, but it's
the way they feel that counts, and that's
just what the look comes from.
Well, she stood there looking that way,
and didn't have anything personal against
her, so I tried to do her some good, and
didn't.
LISTEN" says to her. Don't get of
wrong about this male thing" I says. He's
a mistake, and he'll go right on happening,
no matter what anybody says or does."
"Ah!" she says, like as IL I'd stuck her
with hatpin. How blind shall re-
claim him." she says. II know I shall be
victorious"
Well, of course, II you want to call
Freddie a victory, she was. Or, sure,
Freddie fell in love with her first pop Amt
it funny2 When a rounder falls hard, it's
always for some gentle thought like her: and
one of them perpetual does like Miss Marsh
always fastens onto some broken winded
old stag that wants to be good cause he amt
healthy enough to be bad no more.
Anyhow, Freddie was hers. He got SOS
he could say ''sea shells at p. m. as
regular thing, and he learned about the other
things water was used for besides filling
bath tubs and oceans; and then Of course
they got engaged. Oh, sure! She was re-
forming him to marry him-fattening him
I'D to kill, in a manner Of speaking. She
wore him all around town as conspicuous as
one white duck shoe with a dress suit, and
Freddie got tea broke and tame SOS be could
sit right alongside brilliant woman devot-
ing her life to the protection OF poor ring
tailed monkeys in heather Timbuctu with
never a laugh.
They were both much too happy to be
contented so one rainy afternoon she asked
him to confess all Of his past life to her,
so that they could Goat to heaven together
without any anchors dragging.
So Freddie started in. After be come to,
he picked out my right ear for the overflow
from his bucket of sorrow, and didn't
have the will power--what? Oh, sure. they
split! Pasts don't cut a lot of ice with
woman as long as she don't know the horri-
bic details. 4 man can confess TO murder
and arson, kidnapping and bigamy, and she'll
think he's naughty but nice; but II he tells
her be kissed Sadie Kazootski three times
in the front psrlor at IL AS on the night in
question, she'n call q cop and press the
charge,
shell never speak TO me again." Fred
die says to me. oh, what am | going to
dof'
well" I says 10 him. Judging by past
performances. I'd say that you were going
10 take q drink
'Ah, but can't" be says. II tried get
ting picked. but il didn't do any good. She
taught me the horror and shame Of that
dreadful nfe," be says. "and now can't