The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-09
POSSeSSiUe
Trait Still
i'm Women
BY ALLENE SUMNER

Kid brother fiounced into the
hammock. sending my book skid
ding upon the greensward, and pro-
ceeded to unburden his soul. 1t
seems that he and pretty Lucille
whom. all signs indicated, was
booked as sister-in-law, had split.
1--WE decided she's too darn pos
sessivel" said X. B. Everything we
see, she wants. She, can't get the
least bit of fun out of just seeing
things; she must have them"
"And she wants such expensive
things" said X. B. Houses and
big estates are her specialties, and
I've got just as much chance Of Civ
ing them to her as emerald and dia-
mond tiarasl"
It seems that the final straw had
ccurred on last nights ride. Lucille
had ohed-and-a and raved and
said "oh, II I could only have that"
Just once too often. They had
spent the evening at the home OF
one of the boys who works with
K. B.
It was really the boys fathers
home-a country estate with SWIM
ming pool. century-old trees, acres
Of Handicapped gardens, a purling
brook running through a woods,
swans on the lake, conservatory and
music room, art gallery and sum-
mer houses galore.
ut must have cost millions" said
K. B. 1.-THE old man. Dicks dad,
must be 10 and he never had his
money until he was 60, but you'd
think to hear Lucille talk that she
expected me to provide her with a
country estate as soon Is we were
married"
Tries to Explain
1t was a bit hard not to giggle at
K. Bs ire at this spectacle Of
woman, possessive, but in the sacred
name of more and better conf
dences, I attempted to analyze for
hi mthis foible of the female Of the
species; this yearning for any apd
every beauty she sees, when she
knows very we'll she won't have IT,
and doesn't expect it.
I myself have passed night and
morning for many year the one
house in all the world that 1 want,
and night and morning I say to
whoever may listen to me, chow I
wish I had that home!" But GER
tainly don't expect it, and certain
ly shan't be miserable without 1t.
1t is queer, though. A man can
enjoy to the utmost, with never q
wish that it was his own, most any
desirable thing which he is even
temporarily permitted to enjoy. A
woman must have it. Nothing to
wonder at here. Possession, the pos
session Of home and husband and
children was about all that women
had for such countless ages.
BY the way, think Lucy is to be
sister in-law after all, but I shall
issue some storm signals for her
benefit.
Freak Names"
Freak naming Of children must
stop" This decree rings through
out all Italy. Mussolini again. A
bill forbidding parents to give
freak names" to their children has
been approved by the senate and is
now in the chamber of deputies.
Well, who is to decide what is
"a freak name?" Personally, z
litter at my neighbor who has
named her baby girl "Amaryllis."
But she thinks my own name just
as funny, so there you are!
Many people might disapprove of
the names of Mussolini's own chill
dren, and wonder why in the world
anyone would call poor defenseless
infants, Bruno. Edda and Vittorio.
BY the way, aren't those Musso-
lini offspring unlikeable youngsters?
The tales of their vanity and SUI
periority and dogmatism prove that
despot father works as much hav-
| oc as a despot national leader.