The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-29


 and intense telephone conver- sations with every evening of late?'' in quired the long-suffering father. Why in creation doesn't he come on over so that they can talk in the living room in subdued tones, the way they do when they don't want us to hear what they are saying? Why disturb the neighbor- hood this way"
 But you see.' explained the re- isigned mother, shaking her head re- :proyingly, ''Pearle doesn't want him to 'come oyer! That's why she is talking to him. The young man, she informs me, is a dumbbell, nut, prune and goof. She met him at a party and since then this Harold Adenoid has ,signified that so far as he is concerned { she is his-the only drawback being that Pearle has far different ideas on the subject"
 Then" reasonably suggested the long suffering father, ''all she has to do is to say no, she won't be bothered with him, isn't it? Why should it take her six evenings and an hour apiece each evening to get the idea over?"
 Because" further explained the re. signed wife, Eff she did that when her special friend, Rubye, called up the next morning she couldn't say, My dear! Guess who phoned me last 5night!" And Rubye couldn't gasp and eshriek, My deaaaar! Don't tell me sthat Harold called up again! Why, he has the most awful case on you! And Pearl couldn't say, The very idea He has notv And Rubye would be unable to retort, He certainly has! Tell me every single thing he said Oh, I'm so thrilled.' 7 And then Pearle couldn't hang onto the phone for thirty-five minutes straight repeating He saids and l. saids.
 You see. Harold belongs to a cer- tain class of admirers and Pearle is not going to let him escape if she can help it. The more admirers a girl has the more popular the other fellow thinks she is.
 However, it requires considerable mental agility and intense diplomacy to keep them hanging without being too much bothered oneself and that is what your dear little daughter, Pearle, is now accomplishing. The process is about the same each evening. Harold calls up and says what about a date tonight-dance somewhere and have supper? Pearle assures him that it sounds perfectly lovely but it is just too bad that she has another date. No, she positively can't break it, much as she yearns to accept HarOld's offer. Why, no, she doesn't, either, always have dates every night of her life, the idea Well, it just does happen that Sodine Primp is coming out tomorrow night for dinner with her so-no, Thurs day night is a card party and Friday well, she cant exactly remember but she is positive she has promised some body Friday and if he'll just let her run look at her calendar-oh, Saturday is too far away, she never makes dates that far ahead. No Sunday mother has some company coming and she must be free to help. It is so nice of Harold to want to take her and she does ap- preciate it-well sometime surely she'll find free night.
 And Harold, instead of slamming up the phone and politely telling her to run around several blocks, trustingly calls up again as soon as possible. You have to hit that sort of boy with q large brick before anything percolates into his brain.
 'tOf course, theoretically I do not ap- prove of Pearle's actions in this fashion I was merely trying to tell you why Pearle has these long strenuous tele- phone conversations"
 'fHow long does this class of ad- ,m1rers hang on?" anxiously asked the lohg-suffering father. Don't they sort of get tired after a while and hunt up new victim and start over again?"
 "They are usually extra determined when they get turned down so ire quently," admitted the resigned mother, signing. You see, even if he doesn't care very much for the girl it hurts his masculine pride to think she can hold out and off and he lives in hopes of making her realize her great mistake in not grabbing him when she had the opportunity. The very hardest thing for man to confess is that any girl exists who wouldn't fall in love with him if he gave her a chance!"
 "Oh, is that so-o-o!' the long-suf- fering father perked up indigantly. "Well, take it from me-any fellow who'll submit to being put off with a long-distance telephone courtship is de- serving of all the suffering he gets. Go to it, Pearle Alta girl"
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