The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-07-08

lgoodly number here and there
and around and about. / mean
specifically the ones who 60
lalong for years in set pattern
of things, and all at once some
thing apparently snaps and things
get into an uproar and end in a
holocaust.
| Now you take Judith Black.
! You'd be very glad to take judi
it'll Black. She was our high,
school glamour girl, and at very
early age it became evident that
Ishe was going to cause lot of
trouble to a lot of men.
/ Some years ago a foreign
iscientist announced to a painting
world that he had discovered
how love comes about. Purely a
matter of chemicals, he said, and
went on to explain that we are
made up of go per cent of this
and eight percent of that, gener-
ally, only sometimes its eight
per cent of this and go per cent of
that, which means that some of
us are overstocKed with magnes-
Iium, let us say, and have a grave
deficiency of calcium, maybe.
Assume that I am bubbling
lover with lime but my phosphor-
us supply is practically non-exis-
ttent. Along comes man with
| plenty of phosphorus but no lime.
Result: love at first sight. We
simply need each others chemi-
Gals to strike the happy balance.
between us we have just exactly
the right amounts of all the
chemicals. I'm saying the scient-
list wasn't right. 1t is as tenable
La theory as any other yet pro-
lpounded on the subject.
| AT any rate, whatever chemi-
cal Judith Black had in her sys-
tenn was certainly lacking in a
lgreat many male systems, be-
cause they went after Judy in
droves. Before she was eighteen
Years old a young mathematics
professor in high school shot him.
Iself because Judy didn't feel in
Iclined to share her iron with him,
land two young college men slug
ged each other half to death
lcausing a statewide scandal.
! Judy wasn't particularly pretty.
She had reddish hair and green
ish eyes and fine pair of legs.
THE chemicals that did all the
damage were not visible, but
Ithey were there, brother, they
We're there. Before she was
ltwenty years old she had had
Iforty-one proposals of marriage
and it would be very interesting
Ito know just how many other
proposals. r .e
Judy never said. much. She
just sat around, chemicals steam
ling like mad, and let the lime7
Istarved men fight it out among
themselves. Time went on, and
wherever Judy went, there were
linen, men and men, always. She
went to Europe, and a young
Englishman she met on the ship
came very near marrying her,
Ibut Judy took one look at his
LondCI home, with fog creeping
in under the doorsills, and one
look at his mother, with fog
creeping out of her nostrils and
ears, and the romance died of
damp rot.
Judy went to Paris, and be-
came the toast of the boulevards
practically overnight, for no one
can appreciate a chemically at
htractive woman more than
Frenchmen. AS Paris goes, SO
goes the continent, they say, and
so Judy galloped around in Rou-
mania, Italy and Spain, causing
about the same amount of dam
age a fairly thorough cyclone
would have done over the same
Iarea. The Scandinavian countries
had their sight of her too, and
Judy could have told you that
Swedes are not the stolid, phleg-
matte, cold men they are popular
ly supposed to be. In fact, she
could have told you lot of
things, and exposed good many
popular fallacieS about men, But
as l said, Judy was never a one
to do much talking. She went
about quietly, and in her quiet
way, over period of fifteen
years abroad, collected a great
deal of knowledge nd exper-
fence, quarter of a million dol
lars worth of fine jewelry and
a very big sense of reStlessnesS
and discomfort. Because of all
the men she'd ever known, not
one quite suited Judy. Matter of
chemicals.
When she came back to the
hometown, very striking
woman of thirty-five, perfectly
Igroomed, rich and charming, all
her old paramours began comb
ing their hair in such way as to
hide the incipient bald spots on
their domeS and formulating
plausible excuses to their wives
for coming home late nights.
Judy looked them over. and
found them as uninspiring as
they had always been.