Show I Some Misunderstood Men By Helen Rowland i 1 THE MAN WHO OVERDOES I IlIe lIe He always does oes things SO nicely I you OU sa say He takes e you ou to the most Interesting places He entertains you OU delightfully He thinks of or every every- little thing And yet yet cC And yet he yet he holes hoies you OU There is the mark marl of t the heel He is the man who the OVERDOES the man n whose flattery s just a shade shado too highly colored colore whose whoso devotion is just A 1 t hado shado too obvious whose whoso rs manners and boots an and finger nails aro are just a a. bit too brilliantly polished whose anxiety lomakA to lo tomake tomake make makA an Impression Is Just a n. trifle too patent valent You know In your heart that no man I could be so utterly perfect so scintillating scintillating so 50 unselfish so re resourceful so flawless aa us he appears to be And ho he is unconvincing Ho lie is Js hus busy hus busy bus busy every overy minute and nd working overtime overtime overtime over over- time to lo be agreeable brilliant effective entertaining to to make a hit hit and and he makes you ou tired J There ar aro uro plain bores and refined bores borc The Tho man nian who overdoes is o of the latter varlet variety u He lie calls you pet names without tho the slightest provocation provocation tion he helps you so tenderly over oyer gutters that you 1 0 won wonder er If he he- heIs Is about to propose he gazes a adoringly Into your eyes before the thc oysters are aio served I and amI tries to hold your hand before Leforc you havo 0 reached reach ell the salad He Is always too loo previous When hen you YO talk he leans forward and looks at you ou bo so in intently intent intently in- in tent that he ho appears to lJ bo be listening out ont IA LOUD UD When hen you OU finish he Is al always always al- al ways ready with ith a flash lash of or wit a burst hurst of oC appl applause lu e or an overdone compliment Never for an instant does docs ho turn his attention from you ou to the music or tho the food foo or waiter Never does docs he permit permit permit per per- mit tho the conversation to flag la Never does dle he allow you ou to for forget ct that he ho Is livery Every time limo he makes an effective grand stand play or an epigram epi eDi- I gram ram ho hl flashes an electric sign to call caU your attention to it Ills His burning de desire desire de- de sire Ire to make you OU RECOGNIZE his effort ef effort effort ef- ef fort to please you is ever palpable When you agree to spend an evening with him you know that you are going to a n continuous performance of mental and sentimental gymnastics In short you are arc going to ho bo ENTERTAINED And Amid to being ignored there Is Js probably nothing so fiO boring in ht this whole world worM as being entertained When hen you con consider l er the thc m myriads of or men n who ho sit Nit back hack coolly cool and permit a n woman to tn supply nil all the thc con conversation conversation conversa- conversa vena venation tion flattery amusement and dc devotion the man manlio who lio exchanges s 's roles with her OUGHT to be appreciated nut Hut alas It Is IK a n sad ul commentary on the gentler I sex that the man whom they find irresistible IM is not mint so 0 often orten the thc one who has the tho audacity to pursue them as mJ theone theone the tho one who has haM the tho perl perspicacity to lean leanI I back bick occasionally and make mako them purI pursue pursue pur- pur I sue him Flirtation romance and love are aie after all co operative affairs not one bided sided games And In tho the sentimental senti- senti mental game garne no woman unman cares to be bo I mc merely an onlooker r. r The Thc trouble with the thc man who I overdoes is la that he be Is not convincing You feel that everything he says nays or does has been planned cut dried nn and many times b h foro roro You are arc only the audience tho the two hundred a and ninth ninety woman who vho has been len treated to this little skilled performance perform perform- ance You Tou can see o the thc wheels go o round And AntI the anI only wa way for tor a nanto manto man nan manto to charm an any woman is never ne to 10 lether let lot lother her see tho time wheels wheel go round in sit hist his r t 11 held head or or heart Even the Lorelei I 1 wouldn't be fascinating If It she sho ho sang sang loo too I loud loud or or never novel stopped slopped singing like the tho phonograph h in the tho flat next door I ht by hr lh II ne C fa Ca 1 |