Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-29
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

IDENTIFY, that she is putting the thing
over in first rate style.
II she can manage to concentrate
the eyes of all beholders upon her en-
dearing actions. even if most of the on
lockers are unknown, she feels that no
one could withstand the mass effect of
such endearments as she spills forth
upon the male of her choice.
BY mere weight of achievement, as
it were, she hopes to bulldoze the public
into the belief that this is, that this
must be, supreme example of love
and kisses. Why doesn't some orchestra
break into Hearts and Flowers?"
The fact that there are a hundred
ladies present, accompanied by an equal
number of assorted husbands, and that
not one of them grasps friend hubby's
hand in maternal clasp-well, this
sterling example, or, rather, lack of
example, makes not the least bit of
difference to Gurgling Gertrude.
she feels quite sure. with her con-
tempt for the species of which she for
tunately is part, that her own public
love-making will be all the more telling
because it stands out against a curtain
of the lack thereof.
To hold hands" is proof positive.
she believes, that love is love, and that
everything must give way before such
startling evidence. That the real
lovers of this world hold their affection
as precious, far from prying eyes, is lost
upon her elephantine hide.
She particularly shines at a movie.
When. In the dim light, she feels quite
sure that little demonstration of hold
ing hands will convince even the most
obdurate that she and her mate are
sunk up to their ears in the quicksands
of love.
If she can't trail a fetching arm over
the back OF seat, where every one can
see it, she will be contens with slipping
me same across in front of some one
else i'll the party. If the One of Her
Choice happens to sit in the row be-
hind, this is particularly good, for in
that event it is possible to turn side
ways and reach back boldly, with a
grandiloquent gesture which says as
plainly as words, Now see how loving
we are!"
The male counterpart of this precious
creature is the emblem of liberty who
insists on hugging his best girl while
they go riding in the street car or other
public vehicle.
Backs Of street car seats are lust high
enough to permit manly arm to be
orapeo on, SO lovingly, across 1t, square,
ly or curvingly around the slender
shoulder of the fair one.
Now that Spring and Summer are
coming on with giant strides, this
phenomenon will be more and better
seen. Especially at night, when dark
ness settles over the land, and the lights
OF amusement parks twinkle, the big
boys will come out in their snappy straw
lids, with their TootsieS on their arms
and their hearts bursting with the fer
vent pride of possession.
Sitting merely on the edge Of that
curious geographical formation called
Being in Love-" they are afraid that
those nearby may not realize that this
gal is his, this man is hers. So he finds
it necessary to impress the public with
a demonstration of ownership, a gesture
every one can understand. It does lit
tie more, however, than disgust most of
the assembled public. And so, one may
submit, do the cute actions and the as
sorted gurglings of the woman who
holds her husbands hand in public.