The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-30

Every Man Is in Love With His Stem.
Ographer-Or His StenOgrapher Is
in Love With Him. : Says a Student
of Human Nature.


your Flossie was saying, as
she stood before the old walnut
dresser, and slipped out of the
scant. flimsy dress she wore.
fsAlI you do is heckle me about
seeing Hillary Dexter once in q
while. And you're not bit bet
ter than ann
rs that so?" Mary Rose cried,
stung into defending herself.
You talk as IL John Manners
were married. He's not-and
you don't even know that he's
going TO be-
Plying Smile.
FIossle smiled a plying smile.
you watch and seei1 she an
Owered. II know what you
think. You think you can take
him away from this long string
bean he's engaged to, but you
can't! Money always marries
money you know-and in the
meantime he's just having a good
time with you. And you re poor
prune to let him do itr'
Mary Rose thought over the
evening. 1t had been anything
but q pleasant evening for either
her or Manners. There's no pleas
ure in finding out that a man
who can't possibly marry you, Is
: IN love with you.
ard hardly say that he was
having q good time with me-,
she observed quietly.
"A man always has a good
: time when q girls letting him
! kiss her" said Flossie. with the
wisdom Of twenty. She opened
her handbag and took out box
covered with gold paper. And
from the box she took a bottle OF
] French perfume.
She held 1t up for Mary Rose
TO see. ''Slight love offering from
:Dex," she informed her. We
went into q drug store tonight
. for some aspirin. and he bought
I. this for me-$s an ounce. Can
you imagine THAR"
She laughed, with one Of the
quick changes Of mood that was
her chief fascination.
Awfully Careful.
Mary Pose raised her eyebrows.
'-one Of these days. you'll 90
walking into drug store or =
restaurant with him, once too
often" she predicted. And some
one viii see you. and break the
news to his wife.
FIossIe shook her head, where
the golden hair rfppled softly ike
sea waves on calm summer
morning.
ssoh, nor she answered lightly.
'swe're awfuIIy careful. / don't
~
suspects that he's in love with
me. And suppose Dex's wife did
find out about It? Dex wouldn't
care. He'd be glad If she got
peeved at him and divorced him"
He would not" Mary Rose
told her gravely. There came be-
ter-dignified. prosperous and
seIf.made. A, pillar Of society.
He was anything but the type OF
man who leaves his wife, his
home and children for another
He never would. in a thousand
years." Mary Rose repeated.
Hell play around with you,
TIossie, If you're crazy enough to
let him, but IL It ever comes to q
showdown. he'd stick to his wife,
you'd see. Men are like that"
Men are like what?" Flossie
questioned her.
"Oh-they believe in safety
first" her sister explained, some
what haltingly. "They like TO be
respectable--to be looked up to
by their family and their friends.
Dexter'd have q conniption fit
II any one found out that he was
flirting around with a girl in his
office"
Flossie laughed her scorn. lis
that so? Well. that shows all
you know about ifY' she retorted.
He told me tonight that no
loves me better than any one on
Except himself" Mary Rose
put in. "A man Of his type al
ways cares more for himself than
ne does for anybody else. And,
letting him talk that way to
and some girl had tried to take
him away from Mother"
''That'd be Mothers fault, for
not keeping him in love with
her! No mar ought to be tied to
a woman WAC doesn't attract
him." the younger girl answered.
when woman gets old and
ugly, why shouldn't her husband
leave her7''
Mary Rose stared at her.
That's the most terrible thing
I ever heard any one say, in all
my ifel' she cried. eff that's
the way people did, the world
would be fine place to live