The transport had just been torpedoed.
After a little struggle in the moisture, Bill found himself safely within
the confines of an empty lifeboat.
Realizing that he was safe himself he began to look around to see who
needed assistance.
Observing several men endeavoring to keep afloat nearby, he reached over
the side and grabbed two of them by the hair and dragged them into the
boat.
Suddenly a bald-headed man appeared alongside the boat. Peering over the
side, Bill slapped him on the head and cried angrily: “Gwan down and come
up right.”
_“Wimmin”_
By Jack Andrews.
The ever perplexing, never understanding, and most ancient of
mysteries—Woman—is still with us. With but slight variations she is today
the same enigma as were her predecessors running back to the beginning of
time.
The modern man starts out just about as the cave man did, only he
believes he is more accomplished, and capable of penetrating the veil
that men of vast experience in dealing with the “deadlier sex,” associate
with the Unknown Origin.
It is the incertitude of what Woman will do that brings out the gambling
spirit in all of us, makes wise men of some of us, and pessimists of the
rest of us.
When you find this type of pessimist, a man who breaks out the hammer
as the talk tends toward women—wild and otherwise—just jot it down in
your little note book that at some time in his life a little bubble of
conceit was pierced by a woman, and a man failed to measure up to the
requirements.
There is another class of supposedly male beings who continually rant
about the women. They usually exhibit a holier-than-thou attitude when
the pleasures of a woman’s society are mentioned, and denounce them as
contributors to the undoing of man. They boast of a virtue that stamps
them as impotents, superinduced by their own follies, and makes of them
living hypocrites, ashamed to acknowledge the truth.
A man who boasts of “never a thought of women” will certainly not be
molested by REAL women.
Remember this, my friends, that in the conquest for a woman’s love, it is
far better to be audacious, for to profess too great a virtue may cause
them to doubt your virility.
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