The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-02
ANDREW AND IMOGENE.
By ROE FERGUSON

Imogene laid down her magazine and said to Andrew: T was just looking , at picture here that had a pair of those western chaps oin it, and I think they are the most absurd things
 There you go!" exclaimed Andrew
 That's woman all over. I tell you. my dear, that those western chaps are the very finest. men there are on the face of the earth!
 "A woman always goes crazy over effeminate people. I want to tell you that these men are the type which goes into the wilderness and blazes the way of the nation I admire them They < are real men, No!" he went on,, raising his hand don't interrupt me.
 Tt takes real backbone-real grit Tor a man to go out into the fastness Of nature and to hew down the trees and wrest home from the forest 7 primeval."
 But Andrew" broke in Imogene. II am talking about the chaps with the long hair on them"
 know he said. You think because a man does not have running water in his house. because he does not shave { every morning, because he does not brush his teeth every time he rises from meal that he is not human, but savage
 what you want is the typical mati- nee hero. with a cigarette between his teeth and an epigram on his tongue You want a man who can daintily balance cup of tea on one knee and an olive sandwich on the other. and make love to some other mans wife all at tlf same time.
 You judge a man by the lony hair on him. do you? That's womans way lt matters not if he has heart of oak: It matters not if he may have faced death in blizzard while herding his liocks and things; 1t don't make any difference to you if he had had to face death in a hundred ways:@you scorn him because he wears long hair on his face, You-"
 But Andrew" she again interrupted. listen to me a minute!"
 M T will not listen!" he went on ssWhat's fhe use to listen. You are only going on 10 tell me that any refined woman wants to see man shaven because it makes him look chean. I will admit in advance all that you say about clean Illness. But want to tell you that a man who lives in the open. who faces death neiore the guns Of outlaws and e,,m- blers. has no time for such thingsr'
 Andrew" she said, If you will just stope talk for one minute I want to explain that l meant those leather chaps."
 That's right" he said. Ego on and roast em. Make fun of the honest hearted fellow because the blizzards of winter and the scorchng suns of The desert have tanned his face till it looks like leather. What of it? For real manly beauty I belive that one of those bronzed. leather faced look ing men of the West is more manly than your pale. anaemic tea-toter and wrap holder of the East,
 Il don't like to hear you"
 She crossed the room and put her hand over his mouth. She held the open magazine in her other hand. \ II don't like to hear you, either" she said spitefully. eff you had given me hall minute I would have explained to you that the chaps I mean are the hairy or leather things these men wear on their legs. I am not talking about the men at all. Took, Now. will you shut up?"
 We'll, why didn', you say what you meant he said sulkily I'm no clair voyantt or mind reader."
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