Show caution gutlon no ive nothing for you snapped the ibe w fb nian why dont you look for w work k badam madam responded tho the applicant for for a handout no liter later than this I 1 f read of a man near hero who starved to death while looking for woke ado r do n o to annoy this hos hospitable rom community by expiring I 1 in its mid elds t s 1 I 1 understand interrupted the widow sympathetically and by jovel jove finished tho the bachelor 1 I had to restrain myself to keep from going back and Iro proposing posing to her 11 how ilaw lucky you did commented tile the widow but I 1 have explained the bachelor ruefully it if tho the gorl had restrained herself nevertheless repeated the widow it was lucky for the girl which gli girl P asked the bachelor the girl I 1 broke off with or the girl that came afterward 1 I 1 suppose mused the widow ignoring the levity and leaning over to arrange a bunch of violets at her belt that Is why it Is so difficult for a man to keep a promise ora or a vow even a marriage marr lago vow oil oh I 1 dont know the bachelor leaned back and regarded the widows coronet braid through the smoke of his 16 cigar it the marriage vows that are so to keep its tile the tool fool vows a man makes before marriage and tho the fool promises he makes afterward that lie he stumbles over and falls falis down on oil the rh marriage arriage vows are so big and vague that you can got get all ali around thom them without actually breaking them but it they should interpolate ter concrete questions into the service such as do you william li promise romise not to growl at tho the coffee or do you mary blary promise never to put a daub of powder on your noso nose again broke in the widow nor to look twice at your pretty stenographer continued the bachelor nor to ito ho about your dge age or your foot or your walot measure nor to juggle with the truth whenever you stay out ont after half past pasteen ten nor to listen to things that thai that anybody except your husband may say to you in the condo conservatory oh ohi i isee how it fools feals the widow with a sympathetic little sli shudder udder and yet reflected the bachelor a woman is always exacting vows anil and promises from the man she loves always putting up bars tor for him to jump over when if she emild only leave him alone he would be perfectly contented to stay within bounds and graze in his own pasture A man hates being pinned down but a woman want anything around that she cant pin down from her belt and her theor theories lesto to her hat and li her or husband well protested the widow st studying udy the top coq of hl her er slipper it la Is a satisfaction is to know youve got your husband fasten fastened d on straight by his promises and hold held in place by his own vows and that he be loves you enough to usually interrupted tho the bachelor a man loves you in inverse ratio to his protestations the lover over who promises all things without reserve Is too often like tho the fellow wh who 0 1 question the hotel bill nor ask the price of 0 the wine because ho he intend to pay it anyway the fellow who Is prodigal with his vows and promises and poetry Is generally the one to whom such things melfi mean nothing and being of no value can bo be flung about generously to every girl ho he meets the firm with the biggest front office Is likely to bo be the one with the smallest deposit in the safe the man who swears oft off loudest on new years Is usually the one they have to carry home the it orning morning after and the chap who promises a girl a life of roses isted Is the one who will let her pick all tho the thorns off for herself perhaps sighed the widow chowing chewing the stem of a violet thoughtfully the best way to cure a man of a taste for anything after all Is to let him have too much of it anstad of making him swear off it if you want him to hate the smell of a pipe insist on his smoking all the time if you want him to sign the temperance pledge servo serve him wine with eve ever every r course if you want jilin him to hate a woman invite her to meet him overy every time ho be calls and tell him how sulta blo ble she would bo be and if you want him to love you finished the bachelor dont ask him to swear it but toll tell him that lie ho really ought not to the lest best way to manago manage a donkey human or otherwise Is to turn his head in tile the wrong direction and holl hell back in the right one then sad tho the willow widow decisively we ought to begin the new year by making some some what vows that we wont stop doing the things we ought not to do explained the widow all right agreed tile the bachelor thoughtfully ill make an irresolution to go on making love to you as much as I 1 like you mean as much as I 1 like mr travers corrected the widow severely how much do you ilk like c asked the bachelor leaning over to look into the widows eyes the widow kicked the corner of tho the rug tentatively VI 1 I like all but the th e proposing ja she ht said slowly you really ought to stop that im going to stop it t tonight to night the widow looked up in alarm 0 oh you dont have to commence keeping your resolutions until tomorrow morning she said quickly and are you going to stop refusing 9 me tonight to night continued the bachelor firmly the widow studied the corner of the rug with great concern f and went on tho the bachelor tak ing something from his pocket and toying with it thoughtfully you are going to put on this ring he leaned over caught the widows hand and slipped the glittering thing on her third finger now he began you are going to say that you will the widow sprang up suddenly oil oh dont dont dont she cried in a moment well mo me making promises I 1 we dont need tzi to said the bachelor leaning back nonchalantly wo we can begin by making arrangements would you prefer to live in town or at tuxedo and do you think europe or bermuda the best place for the bermuda by all means broke in the widow and I 1 wish havo have that hideous portico taken off your town house billy and but tho the rest of her words were smothered in the bachelors coat lapel and something else then you do mean to marry me ma after all cried the bachelor triumphantly ump antly bantly the widow gasped for breath and patted her hair anxiously 1 17 I I 1 meant to marry you all the time she cried but I 1 never thought you were really in earnest and methinks quoted the bachelor happily that neither of us did protest too much we made any promises you know not one 0 rejoined the widow promptly aly as aa to my flirting nor as aa to my clubs nor as to my relatives nor my cigars aud and we wont make any vows cried the widow except marriage vows vows aud and new years Ir resolutions added the bachelor listen cried the widow softly with her fingers on he her r lips A peal of a thousand silver bells rang out on the midnight air the chimes exclaimed the widow full of promises 1 I thought it sounded like a wedding bell said the bachelor disappointedly P edly 1 maybe mabe said the widow it was waa only love ringing off los angeles times |