San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-04
Listening In
on Eve
INGENIOUS GIRL.

| There are many things which
cannot understand confessed the ter
/ IDLY attractive bachelor with the PIE
maturely gray hair which always lent
the finishing touch so far as the flap
per set was concerned. Il don't under
stand sunsets, Einsteins theory, or
why woman always is incest TO you
before she turns you down. But what
keeps my brain busiest is why should a
fat lady not plump, or buHOm or
JunOesque, but simply plain fat-why
should she appear in an opera box
in an evening gown without any sleeves
or much Of anything else!'
(which box is she in?" asked the fair
young sylph Of a creature in the or
chestra seat beside him, heavenly con-
scious of her own perfection in even
ing garb. LET me hook at her.
shes in several boxes mOurned
the attractive bachelor. And she's
generally got so many diamonds and
30 much sable on that nobody dares be-
tray by the lift Of an eyclGsh that she's
fat. Everybody in her box has to act
as though she weighed a hundred and
twenty-five only. And she always APP
pears so satisfied with herself"
But one cannot sit in an opera box
wrapped UP in bathrobe," pointed out
the sylphliEe young creature.
There is one OF her in the middle
upper box to the right" went on the
attractive bachelor, somewhat plaintive-
ly, not looking that way. She wears
black velvet, which makes her ex-
panse all the more startling-with jet
strings over the shoulders only-and
her arms precisely resemble an I'D for
smoked hams l once saw. She may
have a kind heart and be good to her
folks and all that, but she has no re-
gard for the public
- you don't have too look at her. :
said the fair young creature. They
=. say il you are fat it is awfully hard tC
get thini"
But if ! look the other way the
. bachelor pointed out, Il see a lady il
spoison-green brocade tied up over on
.tsshoulder and completely off the other
and she never can weigh herself ON an!
of the drug store scales because the!
stop at 30. Her husband is strikingE
@thin, so it must be that she fills u
on sodas and chocolates between meals
= How they must be hating you whel
they look at yoB, Ermentrude"
-Oh. / hope not :" the fair youn
creature murmured in gratified tones
- snOuiu EhNS ~ MANI aug NhN VII
happy"
How long since?' the bachelor dc
manded. "Nou keen me in a cOnstan
!. state of misery, so there's no Use in tina
chatter, girl! BY your deeds shall 20
!. be known"
"It's because you are so particula
and fussy." the fair young creatur
in formed him. at would worry me {
death--lots Of things Such as keel
ing thin, you know 49,.
Never said the particular bacl
elor. taking one quickly averted loo
nt the lady in black velvet, could 20
look like that"
= @Oh. I'm sure I could" she told hin
s.Did you ever in your life talk with
very stout woman who did not maj
age 10 tell you that when she was maj
ricd. at Is, her waist measured Onl
seventeen inches and she weighed 9S
You know you didn't. So there is II
reason whatever for its not happenin
TO me Just the same. Twenty yeaI
from now, Howard, I'll be sitting u
in tbet very box, probably, looking e:
actIy like that, so there's not a bit I
use in my blighting your life by MARI.
ing YOU I've given you eleven diffe
ent reasons on the eleven occasions 70
have proposed 10 me--but this twelfi
SIS sufficient IL would never do whe
you are 50 disturbed by the sigh
around YOU
~Say.v the attractive bachelor j
formed her. snow that stuGr the LAD
- hf,.L ,-oiref / 500 that she il n