"Gentlemen prefer blondes" : $b The illuminating diary of a professional lady — John Shaqi
"Gentlemen prefer blondes" : $b The illuminating diary of a professional ladyLoos, Anita
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"Gentlemen prefer blondes" : $b The illuminating diary of a professional lady
Loos, Anita
Diary fiction; Humorous stories; Man-woman relationships -- Fiction; Millionaires -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction
And when a girl walks around and reads all of the signs with all of the
famous historical names it really makes you hold your breath. Because
when Dorothy and I went on a walk, we only walked a few blocks but in
only a few blocks we read all of the famous historical names, like Coty
and Cartier and I knew we were seeing something educational at last and
our whole trip was not a failure. I mean I really try to make Dorothy
get educated and have reverance. So when we stood at the corner of a
place called the Place Vandome, if you turn your back on a monument
they have in the middle and look up, you can see none other than Coty’s
sign. So I said to Dorothy, does it not really give you a thrill to
realize that that is the historical spot where Mr. Coty makes all the
perfume? So then Dorothy said that she supposed Mr. Coty came to Paris
and he smelled Paris and he realized that something had to be done. So
Dorothy will really never have any reverance.
So then we saw a jewelry store and we saw some jewelry in the window
and it really seemed to be a very very great bargain but the price
marks all had francs on them and Dorothy and I do not seem to be
mathematical enough to tell how much francs is in money. So we went in
and asked and it seems it was only 20 dollars and it seems it is not
diamonds but it is a thing called “paste” which is the name of a word
which means imitations. So Dorothy said “paste” is the name of the word
a girl ought to do to a gentleman that handed her one. I mean I would
really be embarrassed, but the gentleman did not seem to understand
Dorothy’s english.
So it really makes a girl feel depressed to think a girl could not tell
that it was nothing but an imitation. I mean a gentleman could deceeve
a girl because he could give her a present and it would only be worth
20 dollars. So when Mr. Eisman comes to Paris next week, if he wants to
make me a present I will make him take me along with him because he is
really quite an inveteran bargain hunter at heart. So the gentleman at
the jewelry store said that quite a lot of famous girls in Paris had
imitations of all their jewelry and they put the jewelry in the safe
and they really wore the imitations, so they could wear it and have a
good time. But I told him I thought that any girl who was a lady would
not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to
hang on to her jewelry.
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