OCR Text |
Show Confessions of I A War Bride CHAPTKR ML f Podge One More the Menace af Flirtation. I Wm getting; on famously in th office. of-fice. I .bad slipped Into my special niche alniMt unobserved, and was contentedly collecting bits of wisdom about hpw girls break into business, life, when one noon, entered Ir. Hamilton Certets, most ele-ant, ele-ant, handsome and famous of our local nedlcal Mn to make me conspicuous tnd to upset my poise You couldn't plunge Hamilton Orteie , Into a roomfnl of girls anywhere roun-- roun-- try ctuti or business block wIlhoUT caue- Ins; a commotion So when he perceived Jane Ixwimrr at the filing clerk's dsx In the locimer office, and walked over to her m if she were a hostess In a par-lor. par-lor. all the (Iris In the shop forgot what iiy were there for. jfar the first time sines my arrival I aeoome Important to them. 1'U own up that 1 had a silly, funny, feminine feeling of triumph. Moreover, 1 was powerfully pow-erfully glad to see Tony. -And It was Juot about all 1 could do to refuse his In-vitatlon In-vitatlon to go out to luncheon with hlrn. Ho did not press the requesthis manners man-ners . are too correct for that but he aid: "Ho sorry! I think I have a clue to the only person who has" any Information about where the U-boat treasure was sunk. 1 wanted to talk to you atone." MM-ft-SL -SaS sdw- SyttSSv ALSVbadd SVSSiSSv I was horribly embarrassed. In the manner man-ner of girla when they think they have offended a man. To refeso his invitation looked so unsophisticated. In New York or fjondon or Paris a war bride could to to hincheon with a man .nd no one would criticise her. Usually I am quite ready to defy stupid conventions, though not the. extent Chrys does. Why, then, bed I not accepted Orteta' Invitation. I was afraid of myself. The memory of that great temptation to flirt In the blue garden bothered me. I would be too happy with Cartels too obviously happy even m a hotel dining room. I railed up Martha and. as wa sipped our chocolate In a tea room Jammed with lonely flirts like ourttlve. I said; "Martha, how many unwritten laws of matrimony are there?" Martha laughed and asked: "Mean-' "Mean-' In?' "Meaning that little did 1 think when 1 promised to love, honor and obey Hob that I was never going to sit at a table opposite another man, unices he were a relative, all the days of my life" "Absurd. Isn't UT" Martha commented. "Here's another variation of the sme theme: Last night, at the Khaki Kluh, . some of the war brides were Informed that they must not dunce with the soldiers sol-diers and sailors. Only the unmarried girls wers allowed that privilege The young matrons could only pass the coffee cof-fee and wash the dishes!" "T can see It all," I exclaimed, "the deburentes and the spinsters triumphing over the war brides most of whom J us l love to dance!" "Well, you know I'm on the board of managers 1 knew the rule had been made not with my vote however. It ws not made to humor theglrls hut to protect pro-tect the married women to keep them! from TUningr- f I can't decide now whether the un- written rules of matrimony were made for the good of the man or the wife," I thought, "but i-lainty, it Is up to me to k abld by them. 1 am not the only war bride with a fir ttit Ion problem to harass (To be continued.) Copyright. by Newspaper Enterprise Association. |