Milford chronicle., 1936-09-18

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Shifting His Monoele.
POliteness Lut ne made 1t a rule
never to cajOle and tiatter. 1t was
Indifference that shook up the Girls
and made them work overtime.
If you want the Low Down, and
Inside on Mr.. Frappey, the Facts
are these: AS a Cynic he was a
False Alarm and as a Stole he was
all Veneer. Under the hard Crust
of his cultivated Personality, all Of
the customary primeVal Passions
surged and bubbled. He retained
all of the Fool Impulses Of the
Weaklings who had preceded him,
but he thought he had them har-
messed.
For instance when he met Miss
Estelle Gimpey, the trained and dis
cliplined Frappey told himself that
he was merely in the presence of a
living Organism composed largely
of Oxygen, Hydrogen, Carbon, Iron,
Phosphorus and various Mineral
Salts. The hidden and submerged
Ego began to quiver like an Aspen
and was ready to admit that Es-
telle was the logical Miss America
and Queen Of the Vows. From
the Outside he was a Glacier but
internally he enjoyed the Tempera-
ture used at Bethlehem. Penna., in
boiling up Steel for ArmOr Plates.
Miss Gimpey. for the first time
in her brief Career as a high-vOlt-
age Vamp, found herself in the
Presence Of a Male who did not
fall for the Shoulder Action and
a very superior line of Work with
the Eyes. She was piqued and
puzzled and to be Literary for the
NOnce, one might almost say that
she was intrigued. She was accus-
toned to see them curl up like
Bacon in a Skillet.
She said to herself that this Bud
die might be a hard one to upset
but 1t was her Experience that the
longer they held out the harder
they fell. So she began to throw
at him Everything she had, little
suspecting that Saint Anthony, who
withstOod the Twelve Temptations,
had an Easy time of it as compared
with Mr.. Frappey, the bogus WOm-
an-Hater.
HE REVERTED TO TYPE
She carried the Battle TO him and
let him have Volley after Volley
If Soft Signs and coy Chances. one
Evening, when 1t seemed as il she
had lost, he wrapped his muscular
Right Fin around her supple Waist
and reverted to Type. He began to
yurgle all of the incOherent and
diotic platitudes of conventional
,ourtship. He wanted her to marry
lin early next sm0rning.
After she got back to her Room
md Strengthened her bob, she real
zed that Sir LauncelOt was just an
ordinary Dub and would he an Aw-
nj Thing to have around the
1ouse. She knew that If he had
'epulsed her and continued to treat
Ter as a silly Child. she might
AVE worshiped him throughout
eternity and even beyond. AS It
vas. she sent a curt Note, in which
he explained that she would al
Ways entertain a certain Respect
or him but she was dead sure they
lever could hit off as Man and
Wife. because their Natures were
Iot compatible. In a very nice
nd diplomatic way she dropped
i'm from a Fourth Story Window
nt0 the hard Concrete.
When he read her Note by the
l0rning Light of cold Philosophy
e was much relieved. He knew
hat she had tricked him by having
Battery concealed somewhere on
er Person. Being once more un-
er Restraint he was more than
yer convinced that Man is a
hump to give way to any natural
impulse or recognize the Existence
f what is sometimes known as the
pposite Sex.
She told everybody about It but
0 one believed her.
MORAL: After a Volcano erupts
lies quiet for a long time.