Evening star., 1928-10-30
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

But hush-perhaps 1t was unfair to
Mrs. Brighteyes to accuse her of de-
liberately making eyes at gentlemen.
Could she help 1t because she had beau
tiful eyes? Did she not despise men?
Had she not persistently sneered at
them. called them inefficient babies, and
to their hornely faces, too? And had
the fools not reveled In 1t?
Surely it could not be said to be her
fault If her personal magnetism made
most men like her. They had been
doing 1t ever since she was a child.
AS young girl she found the magic Of
glance and smile-and soon wore
more fraternity pins that dozen or
dinary girls.
She was engaged to marry Heaven
knows how many men at once, only
to ditch them all and marry old Jim
Brighteyes himself If you had asked
her to name the half dozen unluckiest
men in the world. she would have done
so without moments hesitation.
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One of her pet delusions was that
even ones husband must not be allowed
to become too sure of one The quiet
| men are the ones to be afraid of!
Such thing as calm sureness, based
on confidence and loyalty, was out
side the rules of the game. She seemed
never to have thought of it.
Some who had escaped from the mag
tc of her influence had been known
to whisper that 'she thought she knew
it all" but they were only engaging in
whispering campaigns
What Mrs. Brighteyes was sure of
was that Friend Hubby must be made
chronically jealous, else he might do all
sorts of things. BY prodding him peri
odically, she could keep him in the
straight and narrow path
What was 1t that Mrs. Brighteyes
ala to secure this effect? What she
| called self-sufficiency In herself was
nothlng but selfishness) A single ex-
ample will suffice.
If she put "I'll Meet You in NV
Dreams" on the phonograph. and then.
in turning away, cast Just q suspicion
Of a glance at the late recipient Of her
glory. was 1t her fault because the sap
imagined that she did cast that quar-
ter-glance in his direction?
Why, OF course not! Men were all
fools, incurable romanticists, who al
lowed themselves to be stampeded Just
because she happened to look in their
Silly direction.
Was 1t not absurd?
And was 1t not well done? If he so
much as dared tell Mrs. Dub that the
enchanting Mrs. Brighteyes selected 'Ill
Meet You in My Dreams" and then
gave him deft uppercut with. her
right (eye), he was boastful fool, an
old css who ought to have known better.
Like true strategist, Mrs. Brighteyes
left no opening for the enemy. Male
beings were to be made monkeys of. If
she chose to forget the influence Of her
eyes who could call her attention to 1t
without running the risk Of being
charged with conceit and several other
very unpleasant things?
All this time, of course old Jim
Brighteyes was growing hot under the
collar. which was exactly what Mrs
Brighteyes aimed for him to do. What
fools these men werel She painted a
hot sketch of herself fleeing from the
other males of the world into the sane
tuary built and maintained by one
James Brighteyes, esq.
And when Brighteyes managed to beat
of the terrible horde, and clasp his own
true Sweetie In his arms. was his re-
ward not sufficient unto the day there
Of? Didn't her old Jimmie Sugar
Dumping think so?