The Washington times., 1923-12-03

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monkey does the other monkey
must do 1t never worried me.
OF course, I've heard more or less
about these young idiots: they're
always being discussed and writ
ten up; but somehow you never
think those things can happen
in your family! =. : / went
straight home and blew up Molly
haven't had a sight Of Janet
yet and Of course she bawled.
Always does. When 7 told her that
Janet had been at Farren's alone
she protested that Janet had told
her she was going to. bed early
that night. Even last night, when
she had theater party, she un-
derstood that some young married
woman was along. But Molly's
a fool. What on earth am to do
with Janet? There were no such
girls in my young. days. Some
Of them were bad uns, but as dis
Greet as you make 'em. Didn't
disgrace their families. Some Of
them used to drink, right enough.
but they were as smooth as silk
in public, and went to q SAM
tariunl to sobef up when it got the
best Of 'em. But these girls APP
pear to be about as discreet as
streetwalkers. You don't think
they kick over the traces do your
''I'm dead sure that Janet hasn't.
She puts on the cap and bells
partly because it's the fashion.
partly because she thinks girls
are alive and having their fun
for the first time. But she's no
fool. She nearly floored me once
or twice. She'll take care Of her
SELF
Girls don't take care OF them
selves when they're drunk. But
I've an idea there's something
else the matter with her. At
least mother has?"
Something eIse?"
I'm love-
well, there's your chance to
marry her off. The sooner the
better, But why should it drive
her to drink II she's fixed her
affections on any Of those chaps
that dance at her beck Y
"She hasn't. She in love with
YOU"
:Whatg' Clavering dropped his
fork. When the waiter had
rushed to present him with anoth-
er and retired, he still stared at
oglethrope as If he had been
stunned by a blow between the
eyes. "Whatever-what on earth
put such an idea into Mrs. Ogle-
thorpe's head? The child can't
endure me. She pretty well
proved it last night. and I've al.
ways known she disliked me- :
since she grew up. that is. TO be
perfectly frank, aside from the
fact that I don't care for young
girls, she always initiates me like
the deuce, and I've never made
any secret Of it. Night before
last / couldn't well have made
myself more disagreeable II I'd
rehearsed for the part"
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Ignorant
oglethorpe 'grinned. Lot you
know about girls. Just the way
to make 'em crazy about you.
Like all idealists, you don't know
q thing about women. Being
rank materialist myself, / know
'en like a book. The emancipated
flapper is just plain female under
her paint and outside her cock.
tails. More so for she's more
stimulated. Where girls used to be
merely romantic, she's romantic
-callow romance of youth, per-
haps, but still romantic-pIus
sex-instinct rampant. At least
that's the way 1 size 'en up. and
its logic. There's no virginity of
mind left, mauled as they must
be and half-stewed all the time.
and they're wild to get rid Of the
other. But they're too young yet
TO be promiscuous, at least those
OF Janet's sort, and they want to
fall in love and get him ouick.
See the point"
NO doubt you're right. But
I'm not the object Of Janet's
young affections. She's either led
your mother to believe it for pur.
poses OF her own, or Mrs. Ogle.
thorpe has merely jumped at that
conclusion we'll. Heaven only
knows why"
you know why. Because she'd
like it. So would l."
Good Lord, JIM! I'm nearly
ola enough to be her father.
Barely ten years younger than
yourself"
YOUTH never be as old as
am this minute, and I'd give my
eyes to see you married to her.
moreover, I'm convinced mothers.
= rlsnt. fanny let out something
broke down, 1 fancy, although