The Washington times., 1923-03-15
FOLL|ES Girl IN
RAPID FIRE
ROMANCE
Mexican's Kiss on Hand
Thrilled Her to Toes, Says
Mrs. Tribe.
BY WILLIAM PARKER,
CosnnoDolltan News Service.

mented that while woman was very
much the same in temper morning,
noon and night, man possessed two
ten1pers, or personalitiesone q
sort of DR.. Jelkyl and the other q
Mr.. Hyde personality"
Mrs. Catherine Tribe, the feminine
Nemesis of Little Phil Alguin,
and former Ziegfeld Follies beauty,
prefaced her remarks on love and
marriage with the foregoing declarar
ton of q man whose own domestic
affairs were hopelessly wrecked.
.Thackeray said that unless wife
understood and catered to both of
these conflicting personalities, her
married life would be doomed to
despair.
Tells of Rapid.F'ire Romance.
cant say. that any such
thoughts came to me when ] first
met Herbert Tribe. the handsome
young Mexican whom later mar
fied, after d rapid-fire courtship of
three days. My thoughts on meeting
him were those of any girl with d
spark of romance pulsing in her
veins. When a man kisses q girls
hand on being introduced, il She
doesn't thrill all the way down to
the tips of her toes, then she surely
Is lacking in romantic impulse.
The night attended the brilliant
artists ball masque at the Hotel des
Artists, in New York, was engaged
to marry a man much older than
myself. II was one Of those family
arranged affairs. Il was young and
the man was wealthy, certainly an
ideal match from the point OF view
of thoughtful and solicitous rela.
lives. But, used to ponder, where
does love come IN?
Herbert Tribe was such distinct
contrast to the average American
man Of my acquaintance that
sensed q new and celebrating pleas
ure in his company. An American
man always seems to want to i'm
press a woman with his cleverness,
or his success In business. 1t has
been my observation that American
men make the best husbands. but rs
suitors, their wives have told me,
they are unimagfnative and lacking
in spontaneity.
Her Prince Charming
So attentive was Herbert this
night, so gracious, such contrast
to the self-coi1scious American men
present that ] soon began calling
him my Prince Charming" A /
told you, thought he was OF Eng.
hsh birth. When later he told me
ne was a Mexican. that made min all
the more romantic to my eyes.
Mexico. the land OF romance! vis-
l0Hed Mexico as q tropical Eden, with
troubadOurs serenading blacls-eyed
senoritas invariably. to the tune Of
la Paloma. The fact that people
must work while in Mexico and that
Sir Walter Raleigh suitors some
times make commonplace husbands
were matters to which gave no
thought. Such is the blindness of.
romance!
Z My Prince Charming soon began
to develop sheik-liIxe tendencies. i
was rather amused at first by his
ard0r, then interested, then en-
thralled and finally captivatel. But
during the first period, that of
amusement, he showed flashes of
his sheik nature. He told me he
was going to marry me whether
consented or not, that when d
man Of the Latin race set out to
win Womarl's heart, fire and flood
would not stop him.
Either marry me or say good.
bye to your friends, for I am going
to take you with me when / 20
to Mexico; the steamer sails in
three days, he said.
But listen, Herbert / argued,
Let's separate for a time and see
whether we really are in love-
Ha! exclaimed Herbert, with
the fervor of grand opera basso.
You are going to be mine-no
other man shall have you."
Herbert at that time was con-
nected with a big exporting firm,
holding a responsible and lucrative
position. He had been called to
Mexico City on business and his
return was problenatical.
II finally got him to consent 10
take the steamer on which ne had
made his reservation, and promised
TO follow on a steamer scheduled
to leave three days later.
"As stood on the dock and saw
the steamer drawing away, with
Herbert on the deck waving and
tossing kisses to me, began to
debate the possibilities Of marriage
with man with a sheik nature.
Would 1t last? Would he always
be as courteous? Could any roman
tic fervor such as. his stand the
test Of timer
''And then. too, I must take into
the fact that I was
putting aside a rich sutton to marry
one who was hardly more than a
boy: and what did / know Of his
real nature, his prospects?
Love truly is blind, or, perhaps
1t would be better to say that love
is unreasoning. AS fast as one argu-
ment would present itself to me /
would dismiss It with an argument
such as But isn't he handsome?'
Gould ever find a more gracious
and attentive man than Herbert:'
When the steamer sailed three
days later / was aboard. I took my
two prize Airdales--Gypsey and
Lizzie-with me.
Herbert met me at Vera Cruz.
Mexico, and we were married shortly
afterward.
But a Latin sutton away from
home and a Latin sutton on his own
soil, among his own people are two
different persons, as was soon to
learn. I know now why love flew
out Of the window but I did not
know then"
Mrs. Tribe will tell tomorrow in n
chapter entitled "When Love Flew
Out Of the Window" how her chiv.
alrOus husband assumed q different
attitude toward her when among his
own people.
r. ARA