The Washington times., 1923-11-30

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he said gallantly. Anything else
would be out of the picture.
need not tell you how wonderful
you look-nor that after tonight
you will hardly remain obScure!
why do things half way? 1t
has never been my method. And
Mary told me once that Nile
green had been her favorite color
until she lost her complexion.
So-as I am to exhibit myself in
box-enfin! Besides, I
wanted to CO." She smiled charm
ingly. ''It was most kind Of you
to think Of me-"
Would that all kind acts
were as graciously rewarded. I
shall be insufferably conceited for
the rest Of my life-only it is
doubtful If I shall be seen at all.
Shall we go?"
When they arrived at Sherry's
they found the large restaurant
almost deserted. It was barely
z. After he had ordered the
dinner-and he thanks his stars
that he knew how to order &
dinner-she said casually:
Il had a cali from your friend,
Miss Dwight, today"
"Yes? You did not see her, I
suppose?"
"Oh, but I did. We talked for
two hours. It was almost COM
icai-the sheer delight in talking
to a woman once more. have
never been what is called a won.
ans woman, but I always had
my, friends, and I suddenly real.
lied that I had missed nv own
SEX
II shouldn't fancy that YOU
two would have much in COM
mon."
'You forget that we were both
nurses. We compared expert
ences: methods Of nursing, opera
tions. doctors, surgeons, shell
shock. plastic surgery, the various
characteristics Of wounded men
all the rest Of It."
'It must have been an exciting
conversation"
You never could be brought
to believe 1t, but 1t was. After
ward. we talked Of other things.
She seems to me quite a remark
able woman"
Entirely so. What Is It she
lacks that prevents men from
falling in love with her? Men
flock there. and she is more
discussed as a mind and a per-
sonality than any woman
among US; but it is all above
the collar. And yet these hand.
some-ugly women often captivate
men,"
You ask one woman why an.
other cannot fnscinate men!
should say that it is for want
Of transmission. The heart and
passions are there-I win risk
guessing that she has been trag-
ically in love at least once-but
there is something wrong with
the conduit that carries sexual
magnetism; it has been bent up
ward to the brain instead Of
directed straight to the sex for
which 1t was designed. Moreover,
she is too coldly and obviously
analytical and lacks the tact to
conceal it. Men do not mind be-
ing skewered when they are out
for purely intellectual enjoyment,
but they do not love It,"
Clavering laughed. II fancy
your own mind is quite as coldly
analytical, but nature took care
of your conduits and you see to
the tact. You cannot teach Cora
how to redistribute her magnet
tism, but you might give her a
few points"
"They would be wasted. It is
merely that I am a woman Of
the world, something she will
never be. And in my hey-day,
I can assure you, was not an
alytical."
Your hey-day?"
was a good manv years
younger before the war, remember.
Heavens! How rowdy those young
people are! A month ago should
have asked IL they were ladies
and gentlemen, but 1 nave bscn
quite close to their kind in the
tea rooms and their accent Is
unmistakable, although the girls
talk and act like gamins. One
Of them seems to know you."
Clavering had been conscious
that the restaurant was filling
with groups and couples, bound,
no doubt, for the opera or the
ater. He followed Madame Eat
tiany's eyes. In the middle Of
the room was a large table sur.
rounded by very young men and
girls; the latter as fragile and
lovely as butterflies, that pathetic
ana swiftly passing youth Of the
too pampered American girl. The
youth of this generation pronn-