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Show Why Father Incurred Small Girl's Censure The lute Marcus Loew, the movie millionaire, praised marriage at a movie banquet. "Marriage," he said, "is a fine thing, especially for women. It gives a woman freedom. We like to see mar rled women flirt. It is an attractive sight. But if a married man flirts I "Yon all know, of course, the old story of the married man whose wife said to blm: " 'John, I didn't like the way you stared at that blonde girl at lunch.' "And John said glumly, 'Well, neither did she.' "Here's another story. "A little girl of seven was taken b her father aud mother to a depart ment store to be fitted out for school. While the mother chose sweaters and shoes and so on In the children's sec tion, wandering here and there, the father got Into a pleasant chat with a pretty girl at the lingerie counter. "His little daughter watched him for some time" with disapproving looks; then she shouted across the store to her mother: "'Mother, Just look at father! You'd never think he was married to us, would you?'" |