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Show I Her Daughter and His Son 1 A Great Married Life Story by I IDAH McGLQNE GIBSON AN UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE. Again I looked at Mamie wondering J How could she have kept o sweet and full of good humor when every day she was a target for all the tawdry compliments that any man might see fit to give her? In mv business life since ihen I have often wondered why almost e ery man, old or young, rich or poor, uncouth or polished, thinks that he can attract any woman he may desiro jT " Many times I have known men who seemed to think that with a silly com-l pliment or two they could make a conquest con-quest even though the compliment' were expressed In atrocious. English I have found that man never looks upon woman impersonallv She is' never Just a human b. n she Is either his mother, his wife, bis sister; or a prospective romance or flirtation However, at the time of nr, axperi ence as a hat checker, I had had no! parallel from which to draw conclu ! slons. and It had never occurred to me j'i that girls in business Life had to put up: with these things. Another would-be flatterer tried to, i i catch my hand as 1 held it out for bis hat. Mamie came forward, saying under ' her breath Just act as if you didn't see It It's 'nothing, mv dear, after you get used I to it " I "LV) yon have much of this sort of thing to put up with'" I asked as there canif' a lull "Well, you have to stand It up to a 'certain point. You can't mako a man grouchy and for your own sake yoil can't give him too much encourage, mvnt You'll soon learn to have an answer ready that is, if you stay. But I don't thtnlt you'll stick Somehow I you don't seem to fit in " I "I'm sure you don't seem to fit in," said a sauve voice. Johnson tcll: in-', little one, that you've been playing in ! hsrd luck Never let it be said that , I neglected beauty in distress," and turning his hat over, smother customer dropped a bill in It and passed It to j me For a momeni I was thunderstruck I I didn't know what to do I looi: iJ o I Mamie in distress and like Ihe brick she was she answ ered mj S. O. S "All, good evening. Mr. Horton," she 'smiled, as she took the hat out of my ' ;md, and with seeming careless! turned it over, dropping the bill nn ttte iloor. ! iouvo lost your suppor money, Mr Horton ." find she handed him bacL tho $20 bill. The man bit his lip in anger and quickly turned away "I'll be reported for that all tight," said Mamie "Oh, I'm sorry, but I didn't knuv. what to do about LI ' "Of course you didn't, child, and I gathered from what hi- ald that John son's at the bottom of it You Bee, Horton rtnd Johnson are pals and nothing noth-ing In ihe way of an attractive girl gets by them I feel as if something's worrying you. Tell mc about it when, you get time and I !) be with you forty ways ' I felt the tears come to my eyes. I haven't any place to stay tonight," 1 told her. "So that's what they're up to, is It? You'll come i igbt home w'th me My brother Is out of town and you can' have his bed. Tomorrow At Home With Mamie. |