The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-02-05
Copyrisht 1899 bv
Christopher Morley

- RhA NV tAeAAR 49,
making speech telling them
where TO head in, forgot about
the President Of the United states
and everything else. Just figured
this was my everlasting chance 10
tell some OF them how the White
Collar Girl feels about things and
what bloody mess and electra,
l was definitely on top OF the
world. things came into my mind
the way like them. so they sound
comical and at the same time
they're true and they sting. The
big grand piano right behind me
acted like an amplifier. could
hear my voice tinele an echo
among the strings and thought
I'm knocking them cold they'll
never forget this, and then the
way 1t always does In dream
some kind Of Illustration has 10
work into u. It's 80 terribly
urgent what you want 10 do and
at the same time something gripes
you 40 you can't accomplish. A
regular palzy came in my speech
and my voice got muzzy so the
one thing | wanted TO say, which
was White Collar Girl. couldn't
pronounce II, | struggled and
/ couldn't get my tongue onto II. |
sounded 10 myself like I was drunk
and the newspaper boys started
razzing me. | woke up in a horror.
think I WAS crying.
You see. told Molly. I really
did want 10 say something for
them, the W. c. G's that Is. your
poor damn sharecroppers In the
Dust Bowl Of business. see them
in subways and on busses. putting
up a good fight In their pretty
clothes and keeping their heeby-
/ Jecbies to themselves There's
something 30 courageous about IL,
IL hurts me inside.
Yes. Molly says. a pooh-bear on
the bedspread isn't enough. II they
try TO escape by marrying q good
provider maybe he's got no brains
or he don't talk her language II
they marry man who's smart he
may be more interested In his
work than he IL in her. How are
you going TO find man that's
both dumb enough and sweet
enough
It's asking too much. said
i've got an idea Molly says
"Dibbies on il first"
There's lots OF things worse
than being lonely"
We work like shzreeroppers 10
keep body and soul together. and
II that all the snswer we get 10 %
Maybe It's a mistake keeping
them 30 close together" IL Mollys
suggestion. They're different and
they need different kind Of thing,
Maybe ye could keep body and
soul little bit separate.
The session pretty nearly broke
UP then because thought for =
moment we'd have 70 get dressed
and 90 out for some cigarettes. but
found a spare PACK had hid
away for emergency. a man can
always fail hack on his pipe II the
cigarettes run short but what csn
woman fan back on
Wen ,kip that ore. Molly says.
At least" suggest. you
couldn't feel such expert loneliness
unless thsr. had been a time when
you weren't Let's SKIP that too.
I'm talking the way I do when I'm
all by myself. Most likely II doesn't
make sense. That's the best Of
being lonely. things don't have to
If ever marry" Molly says,
Il think IL better be some good
stupid bozo. 80 stupid he'd always
Be kind to me. Fsdor's not stupid.
that's the only trouble with him.
Wen. that's what's wrong with
my gentleman friend"
The clever guys cant take IL"
ITS because they know what
they're being made 20 take"
IT'S interesting about Fsdor.
you know what used 70 Dc morbid
about. I mean the aluminium lsz.
! really rather love him for u nov
Hss 40 damn plucky and doesn't
ssk any fsyors on account 81 H.
didn't quite Ike 70 put Il In
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