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Show '"$"l"i"ff"i"l("l"i"1("1t"i"i SUB ROSA ... J By mm Love' Three Step THESE are not like the steps of some new dance, and there's enough Juzz-duncing and Jazz loving already. Love can be like dancing, for It starla ou Its toes and ends up on Hut feet. The Hrst love-step Is purely emo Uonal. It has plenty of fire, but not much light. You get some Idea of It from the conversation of average aver-age lovers. You get some more when the letters are ready In the breach-of-promlse suit. Well, such conversation and correspondence should be canned. The emotional form of love may be attractive, but It doesn't wear well. Lace lingerie Is all right, 1 suppose, but the Iveart Is a loom which can turn out stronger stuff Emotlnu Is to love what the mayonnaise may-onnaise Is to the sulud, but you can't make a meal of the dressing. The second 'step which Is now being taken by so-called lovers Is a very practical one. It may start with courtship, but It winds up In partnership. The altar figures in It, but Its the Job which really unites the up-to-dnte Homeos and Juliets. This gives us the duplex marriage witli wee wife on the Job at 9 a. m. the same way hubby Is. It may be worth trying, but It looks more like business than romance. It mixes up kisses with the rubber stamp. The marriage of convenience Is having a tryout ln this country where woman has grown tired of being a baby doll or housekeeper. The woman has begun to feel that she should be responsible for the upkeep of the family. With the modern apartment with Its kitchenette kitchen-ette and with the dellcatesseR store nearby, woman can do the cooking on the fly. Or they can meet at some restaurant. The third step Is yet to be taken, although the way was pointed out long ago by the Brownings. Of course I mean Robert and Elizabeth, Eliza-beth, not the other Browning couple. I'll bet It's hard to have Intellectual Intellec-tual love, but It may do as well as the erotic and economic forma of loving. It can't be very exciting whon a pair of Ph. D's kiss, but still they may manage a kind of love on the cool basis of the brain. Women have brains. That's one of the discoveries of modern science along with radium and the North pole. Since they have something more than a bob above their ears, they can manage the Intellectual marriage. Anyhow, whether they can make good ln the third form of love, they oan stand It, since they have stoo1 so much already. All Alone A MAN I know pretty well and a like a lot took me to dinner the other evening. Of course, that isn't news, but I'm not going to tell a story of milk-fed lobster that we didn't eat. No, for I've got bigger Ideas under my bob. Say, what do you suppose I saw at that restaurant? General I'er-sliing, I'er-sliing, Charles Chaplin, the prince of Wales? No, guess again, Gussie. I saw women, and they were all alone; that Is, as far as men were concerned. Some single, some In pairs, or a whole table of them. But they were alone, If you get what I mean. Geel they looked at me as though the Queen of Sheha had" Just strolled ln accompanied by King Tut-Ankh-Amen, and my escort Is not really a Wow. Say, girls, what's the world coming to when a girl and a man can't feed together without with-out raising a riot? Yon see, it's like this. The women of today are self-feeders, like the patent furnace In the cellar. cel-lar. 'Little old New York and other towns are Just full of fine women and girls who are living and eating eat-ing all alone. Then, my male escort, as I'll call him, told me that almost every morning when he goes to his bncon-and-eggs at seven-forty-five, he sees kid girls come In and munch their stuff and then leave on the run for the office. Ail alone 1 I'll say they are. What's the matter with the men, anyhow? Don't they know that this all alone business is not according to the queen's taste? The All Aloner at brenkfast, lunch, dinner, looks Independent, but she Isn't happy. She knows where the next meal Is coming from, but she'd like to know where the next man Is coming from. Maybe the business girl with her own purse has forced this situation on herself. If so, she has given herself one raw deal. The neglected neglect-ed woman is the product of business. busi-ness. When a girl had nothing but a little pin money that her father had given her, she thought It was slick when a man Invited her to dine, and so did he. But now that she has the price ln her purse and still more In ber sock, he doesn't flatter her with any such service. She's deprived him of his financial Influence over ber Just as surely as Delilah robbed Sampson of his power when she gave him a haircut Know all men by these presents that we women would like to have a little of the old-time attention that our mothers got. You may think we're all Helen Goulds, but we are really Clnderellas. It's no fun to be neglected. ( by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) |