| Show experience experience and and advice remarked the bachelor with a wry wry face faco s Just what Ive I've been giving him Mr Ir V ADVICE Weatherby-ADVICE 1 But autyo you took took care to td give him the experience first returned the bachelor bachelor bach bach- elor acc accusingly Youve You've be been flirting with him outrageously outrageously- Of course admitted the widow quite unabashed And this afternoon Ive I've been showing him the evil of it I all and lecturing him on the folly of ot wasting his time and sentiment on one silly flirtation after What SUPREME audacity breathed the bachelor in amazement Well he added with a shrug of res resignation res- res ignation it you ought to know al alJ about abou f Flirtation Dulls the Edge of Love LoveI I do sighed the widow ruefully and that's why I Ive I've ve decided to give up flirting and and and-and and all that sort of thing Ive I've discovered that every flirtation flirtation- every light romantic affair every affair every sentimental experiment takes some of the glamour off oft of life Robs you of ot some of your capacity for real love and real romance and real happiness Every little piece chipped off oft of your heart leaves Just juet a little bit less less' hummed the b bachelor flippantly Yes Yes and that's why hy men have so much less Jess sentiment and Idealism and imagination than women declared the widow They scatter the star dust duet of life about prodigally until they haven lovent haven't t tany any left left any any glamour or Illusions or ora ora ora a single potential thrill Nonsense protested the bachelor How are you going to GET the glamour anyway unless you fall faU In love occasionally Oh occasionally re repeated the widow scornfully But that doesn't doesn t mean falling In and out of a flirtation fh every few weeks M Most m men n don dont don't t feel that their v vanity or their emotions emotions of or what whatever v r It Is they call their hearts arts are are re getting th the proper proper- exercise unless unless un un- less they are being Constantly overworked over over- worked And most moat modern women are aNI keep- keep ing right up with them remarked the bachelor acidly 1 Yes acknowledged the widow with witha a bitter sigh they HAVE to or be left left on on the shelf But Its It's deadening all our sentiment and drugging our i illusions and nd making us lose our perspective per per- per per-I One or or two or even three big fine genuine love affairs in a i lifetime may give all life a golden I glamour but a little of ot little cheop imitation love affairs take away its tang and spoil your taste so that you youdon dont don't don t even know REAL love ve when it comes comes comes' Oh well well- nobody believes in m real love love or or fairies nowadays fairies nowadays protested t the e b cheerfully Dream Dream But But Dont Don't Wake Up But we MUST MUST believe In them moaned the widow tragically The glamour the star dust the DREAM are all that make lifo life worth living Take them away and It is as shabby and tawdry and sordid as a a. stage setting when the lights are all aU out It doesn doesn't t matter a a. sn snap p whether there ARE such things or not not its Its your BELIEF In them that keeps you young and hopeful and joyous And the less you know of anything the more you be believe believe be- be lieve In It That s w y Ive I've refused any longer to exchange ge my mv dream for tor a alot alot lot Jot of ot little cheap realities that sap the life lite andy and faith out of me I Id I'd d rather gather have one big disappointment in inlove inlove inove love ove than han a lot of little silly successes successes successes successes' suc suc- So that the dream be fine and fair Molly Molly what do YOU care quoted the bachelor airily Dear girl he added seriously you you are suffering from a sentimental hangover I know the symptoms symptoms' I I know It it wailed walled the widow And 5 so eb was IID HE But Ive I've sent him away away- and now hell he'll never know it He still has bas his Ns ideal deal Oh dont don't worry about him urged the bachelor bachel r cheerfully Give him a week or so for tot recuperation and an another another an- an other fascinating fascinating- woman How DARE you vou suggest such a athing athing athing thing Mr Nr Weatherby He said he would NEVER get over it it iU He He- still has the star dust duet in lri his eyes eyes' y sf sighed the bachelor enviously |
