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Show I LOVE and MARRIED LIFEj II I twj. the noted author I 11 Idah HGlone Gibson IK MANAGING MEN. K i felt much better after I told the I man who was trying to flirt with me 1 what I thought of him. i "Perhaps I should not have been I i qjite so forceful," I said to myseif, for I I realized that I probably had poured y out on the poor old chap some of the fcfN animosity and hurt feeling I felt to-wfef to-wfef ward in j' husband. W I've always wondered why ho many J nnodle-aged men never realize that they can no more interest young and J pretty woman than an old woman can hopo K hold charm for a young man. i Yet the whole world seems to think j that when a doddering old man Is seen dining with a. pretty girl at a res-j res-j aurant that he is very superior or jK very lucky, while It lias nothing but derision for the woman of uncertain nga accompanied by an attractive jroulh. I have often heard John refer ': to such a woman as a "cradle robber." 'Chagrined and Frightened. ' Notwithstanding my attempt to be c very philosophical about the matter, I j rras chagrined to think that tha man 'i had 6,poken to mo because he had re-'J re-'J alized I was alone and looked lovely. If I rushed up to my room with tho wild hope that possibly John had written to me, and I wanted, yes, all at once knew that I really wanted to go '. back to him, even if he did not love ' me any more, for he had been a protection pro-tection that I wanted badly now. Jl A married woman separated from m) her husband suffers a loneliness lhat ffif no 3ingle woman over knows. No mat- fi ter how much independence a woman) c has had before marriage, she must j glvo up much of it when she weds. It is the way of the masculine world to ask why a married woman is .Jonc, to discover the secret of her being j alone, and to think that, being alone, she is on the lookout for anothei pro- ! lector. If she Is she finds many volun-teers. volun-teers. J Men are not always birds of prey j even though nature has given them the i to'h of the chase. Curiosity leads most 0 men into adventure. I romemher a ; friend telling me some years ago that 9 when she was doing publicity "ahead j of a musical show" she had one reat 1 remedy that always worked when a rj man became too flirtatious. "I could not endure the loneliness of 'I being by myself in strange towns and 3 strange hotels," said my friend. "At (Irs:. 1 was very particular. I s.poke to I no one except those with whom I came In contact in business, but one day on the train I became Interested In a man who sat in the next chair to me during dur-ing an eight-hour journey. "Of course he managed to speak to me through tho usual introduction of offering a magazine. I was so lonely lhat I really welcomed the sound of his voice. I determined to lot him Uilk to me. There certainly would be nothing in a crisual conversation in n well filled Pullman chair car that even Mrs. Grundy could cavil at. "I spent a charming afternoon. Then we went together to tho dining car, where of course I insisted on paying fir my own dinner. But as we drew near my destination, which he had informed in-formed me was also his, I could see that ho was becoming a little more familiar fa-miliar than was comfortable. '"I liked the man. He was evidently not one of those male bipeds who think that every young woman who spoke to him was ready to drop into his arms, and I did not want to have to really say something that would make me uncomfortablo and perhaps anger him. "At Inst I had a brilliant idea. We wero talking about the incessant trav eling requireu or me oy my work uhen ho remarked that I must have made the casual acquaintance of many men. "Immediately I took the occasion to say: 'The finest thing I have found about my work is the fact that 1 can staitd a monument to the chivalry of American men. As you have gathered from my conversation I have traveled extensively in this country. Naturally I have mot many men of many k'nds, good, bad and Indifferent, and I have never found one that treated me under un-der any circumstances differently than he would his own sister." "I had to smile at myself." concluded my friend at the effect this declaration declara-tion had upon the gentleman, for, it was a foregone conclusion that ho was not going to be the first man to disabuse disa-buse my mind of the honor, virtue and chivalry of his sex." I smiled to myself as I thought of my own little episode, and I wonaered what she would have done with tho old man who had been following me up and down the boardwalk. I decided, howevei, that she probably would have dono Just as I had. Nothing but a verbal ver-bal bluageon would do the work on a man like I had had to deal with. 1 Tomorrow A Man's Views. |
