The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-02-04
IkSTAllMENT TWEkTY-THREE
KIT TY FOYLE
Copyright 1899 by
Christopher Morley

would teach me to quit thinking
about me. Does everybody tor
ment themselves that way? l
guess you never get happy except
by thinking more about other peo-
pie | think | was nearest what's
TRUE for me when Wyn and I were
loving each other, but naturally
that sort OF thing is too sweet to
last. It's not a regular part of lie
but just something that lights onto
it once and while. Where danced
the moon on Monan's rill. Maybe
there's some way l can get closer
to what's true for everybody.
It's kind of exciting to be learn
ing things the way you know
every other person in the world
always had TO.
Nobody knows what she really
believes. You've got to guess at 1t
by how you find yourself acting.
I got a new slant on Mark the
warm afternoon he and | took a
walk up Riverside. l invited him
up to the apartment for a drink,
and OF course l offered him to go
in the bathroom to wash while |
was breaking out ice cubes.
went in there myself afterward to
prink up little and I saw he
hadn't used the embroidered guest
towels l put out Naturally
wouldn't mention it. but after we
had highball he said. Il guess
I made faux pas. l meant &c
rumple up one Of those guest tow
els. just for good manners
1T was a kindly thought"
said. but what's the idea ,"
Il couldn't help taking one you'd
used yourself, it smelled So sweet
OF you"
1t was rather dear. the way he
said il. WAS almost embarrassed
Kind of ashamed too because
somehow ! didn't like the idea OF
those big blue cheeks in my face
towel. Some skins are just diff
ferent, and what are you going tC
do about il Delphine says. c'est
une question de peau. She's got
me so l can almost talk French
when there aren't any French PEG
pie listening.
1t made me think though,
guess it really is good for a woman
TO be loved. or anyway admired
even if only for smell. 1t started
a little spark shining down inside
me. somewhere that hadn't had 8
ghmmer in ever So long.
But can you marry man just
because you're so interested in tn,
work he's doing? I guess that's
the something more than -Four
Legs in Bed old Pop talked
about. But maybe you'd marry be
cause you do enjoy using the sam,
towel. l didn't know which one
it was Mark might be talking
about SO dropped them all in the
wash
He's 80 proud OF me having 9
glamor job he'd most likely be
uckled 10 have me keep on with it
A while. anyway. I'm proud Of II
too, l hammered it right out of q
hall bedroom and a School for
Brides. And sometimes wouldn
care II all the complexion on Park
Avenue turned into leather The
skin I like 10 see keep fresh snc
get colored onto il is the kids
down at the hospital. Sure. ! know
I'm obligated 10 Delphine and she 5
moved me along wonderfully. Witt
bonuses I make $1,000 a year anc
she wants TO let me buy stock in
the company. But I reckon I've
given her ful value too. Nine year:
Of IL, nine whole Quaker calendars
Naturally I know my Mark:
crack about the towels bothered
me. II was Pocono, Nyn wouldn't
dry himself till ne could use the
one wiped with. He said II made
him feel closer. I wonder II M
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