The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-01-07
Just Like a Woman
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II have been sixteen years married. =
said the head bookkeeper, as he hung
up the telephone receiver and read
justed his green eye shade.
eyes," observed the stenographer.
looking at him curiously. We'll you
don't look it,"
/ .And yet" he continued, ignoring
the typists flipancy. And yet l
haven't learned when woman really
means what she says"
ooh, that's. all nonsense-a mans
point Of view. A woman always means
what she says"
Sometimes she does, and there is
no doubt about it. And sometimes she
doesn't and there is good deal of
doubt about it. She keeps a man
guessing all the time. There's my wife
-she just called me up, and if it
wasn't for a providential bunch, |
would have put my foot right in it."
asked you to bring your friend out
to dinner?''
mo. When want to bring friend
out to dinner, just-but that's not 1t.
She called me up to tell me that here
was friend of hers-an old school
mate in town, who had just phoned
her. asking her to come downtown and
take in the matinee"
''yyell. there's nothing wrong about
that, is .there?" interposed the god
dess of the machine, little severely.
IF you sat al home all day looking
at the four walls
Wait. A moments halt. am not
discussing domestic ethics. My wife
can do as she pleases-within limits,
of course. That's not the point At
ter she told me about her friend 'phon-
ing her, she went on to say that she
just couldn't see how it would be pos
sible to meet her, that 1t was her
cleaning day, that she wasn't feeling
well, anyway, that it took so long to
go downtown and come back, that
there was nothing good at the theater
anyway, that she really wished the
girl hadn't telephoned, and finally she
said she had called me up to see what
she should do about it."
Il am curious to know what you
did dot was judicial look the
stenographer turned on him this time.
We'll, it didn't appeal to me as
very important matter one way or the
other, at first, and my first impulse
was to fall right in with her line OF
talk and to follow her lead with a lit
tie soothing persiflage, you know,
about not letting it bother her and If
she wanted to stay home, why, to stay
home and just call her friend up ami
make some excuse or another"
But you DIDN'T"
"No AS say, just at the psyche
logical moment got hunch-it must
have come from the subcellar of my
subliminal consciousness
"Eh?"
Cor, maybe I'm really beginning to
understand women, after sixteen years
of special duty-but anyway, I didn't
indorse her excuses. spoke up, with
some warmth and told her that GER
tainly she must meet her friend and
go to the matinee, to let the cleaning
go, that it was a good chance for her
to get out and relax. that she ought
to show her friend a good time any
way. and when had got thru coaxing
her what do you think she said?"
Il couldn't imagine, really
"She just said, in a matter-of-fact
sort Of way, We'll, just 'phoned her
that l would meet her at 2 O'Clock, and
would / mind taking dinner with them
somewhere downtown after the show
OF course, / didn't mind, but that's not
the point. Why the deuce didn't she
tell me that at first? Suppose !
hadn't got that hunch?"
But the typist made no further COM
ment