| Show h BACHELOR GIRL OF 1900 mt IS VICTORY ANNO If It you want a name n me for the bachelor girl said sald the tho woman who knew I advise you to call caIl her Victory Anno Anne Domini She is typical of the age and andis is going to do as she pleases s no mat mattea mattor mattar tea tar how she does it nor what it is She may want broiled ham for her break breakfast breakfast breakfast fast She has the ham and the fire Skewer toasting fork broiling rack are all conspicuously absent Does she T N Iwa I IIi Ii Ii p w 1 b bI I 4 I 1 Ill H III i I t t tS I 1 a f fi S THEY LIKE LE TO SM OKE OXE 4 therefore go without her You ion know not a letter in her book if you think so The uses of a hairpin have long been be n exalted c alted by mere nere men To the hairpin she has added a hatpin Upon the tip of her ber longest strongest gest most prized in windy weather she cooks her meat as sin s deftly as a a states statesman states statesman statesman man cooks a tariff bill She Is as inconsiderate of the tho self respecting burglar as her age is of folk who take themselves too seriously When the burglar comes in at dead of ot night she does not sit Bit up and howl any more than the world howls at the tho arrival of mighty reformers She sits up all right but it is merely to tell the knight of ot the t jimmy that he has made a mistake in his vocation or his latchkey and either way is guilty of very ery bad taste Sometimes she makes a direct attack more commonly a flank movement by talking to her cat The burglar poor man seldom gets nearer than the entry A bachelor girl apart apartment apartment ment is bound to have an entry The Th professional enterer has las no trouble at atall atall atall all with the lock I It If is when he gets inside that ha he loses himself and his courage in the multifarious tangle of hangings and bamboo poles and swing swinging ing lug things Terror lurks In the unknown not infrequently he flies in fear lest his dark lantern touch off oft some infernal machine masquerading as an ornament Macaulay said the Puritans object objected ed to bear baiting not because it hurt the bears but because it pleased the people When the bachelor girl smokes it is not because she cares for tobacco but because smoking displeases some people whom she likes to astound She does not mean of course course to do any anything anything anything thing wrong or unladylike she only feels that she must live up to her lib liberty erty which those people would re restrict restrict restrict strict if they could You see at bottom the bachelor girl gi is the most feminine thing in n the world orld A chafing dish supper ia is i a sort of Modder river to Victory Anno Anne Domini since it is there she achieves the mot most mo t notable triumph of ws was over means A chafing dish you ou know is a e I to O fetich which rewards only the votaries who give it devotion The Tile I bachelor b girl is too facile to be single r minded What with lectures art lit literature literature keeping up with the play playhouses playhouses playhouses houses thinking out her ber frocks and ands ft sympathizing s with budding genius is ia Isit n nIt It any wonder she forgets sometimes that Newburg lobster requires a dash of sherry or that a Welsh rarebit can cannot cannot not make makei up with beer for a lack of ot J i Cayenne But what of It Jt When chat i t 1 it ing lug dish victims take their lives in their hands she smiles at them fully tt to persuaded that nothing really reaDy matters matteis j so long as her appearance is unconventional i 1 enough to be distinctly artistic I dp do not say she sIre is wrong Th The The longer longerI r rI I live the more reason reeson I see in the f fI 1 I L i C 1 in W r f S bt i l f 1 A Ar I II r 1 H I Find Pin the Burglar t t contention that there are f no things only the names of or things t The bachelor b girl is a sort of or hypnotist whose power Owe is r ot J ed in her victorious faith in i |
