The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-30
ANDREW AND
 IMOGENE
By ROE FULKERsoN

T sec they have retired Joe Bates" said Andrew casually.
 Goodness me-" exclaimed Imogene in a startling way.
 Why the excitement9" asked An drew. Our dear government has re- tired lot of it's fighting men with out seeming to set the world by the ears.
 Poor Sadie" said Imogene.
 Poor Sadie" said Andrew. T should say she was lucky. She has never had a husband since she has been married. He has always been away some place"
 That is why she married him. said Imogene, sadly, "and now to have him retired while he is still B young man. It is too bad"
 Well of all things 1 ever heard of exclaimed Andrew.
 Well, 1 don't see anything so ter rible about it. said 1mogene. Sadie is nice girl and she had no money of her own and she had to marry some one. She did not like house. keeping and things domestic and IS people in the navy are away from home all the time and are constantly being shifted around she thought it was best to marry a navy man.
 So she looked around and found Bates and married him and now she has him on her hands ali the time"
 That's the most outrageous thing I ever heard of" exclaimed Andrew. 'It serves her right"
 But Andrew" said Imogene. Don't you realize that all women arc bar Qain hunterS hV nafure2
 Tn everything in this world they try to get more than value received for their money or their services. They are always trying to get goods below cost. In the department stores and the habit has become so fixed that they try the same thing all through life.
 They are always trying to buy happiness at a little below the mar ket rate and that is the reason their happiness is so often tinged with regret.
 They try to get by cheap little tricks of dress or artificislities which are only surface stuff. and then when they fail to hold what they get they wonder why it Is, forgetting that, they paid bargain price for tie love, bought it below the market and they could not hope for anything nut second quality.
 Tt is the same way with a woman's ambition, Andrew. It matters not whether she is trying to reform B city or whether she Is trying to get job as salesgirl behind the counter of department store. She tries to get it below cost, she uses her fem mine lure, she uses her sex as an ex- cuse for doing things no man would dc and she is always hoping to atta.n Ter success without paying in full for it.
 Sadie was just doing that all over again. She did not want husband, She simply had to have one ana went bargain hunting as all women do for everything they want, and. as usual, she got tripped up. Bates was the man who demanded least of her m exchange for his name and his sup port, and as he was the biggest bar ssIn in sight she took him home with her.
 T suppose, as you say. 1t is only retribution that she should have to pay after all.
 "Stii, Andrew, women are women, always have been women and always will be. The working of their minds is different from that of men, for they have always had to get by cum ming what men have taken by strength, and in some of us 1t turns into queer bypaths and gets quite ways off the straight road"
 sIll be durned," said Andrew. CCopyright, 1922, by Twenty-first
 Century Press, Inc.) 5z