"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
Well last night Mr. Spoffard and I took quite a long ride in the park,
but they do not call it a park in the Viennese landguage but they call
it the Prater. So a prater is really devine because it is just like
Coney Island but at the same time it is in the woods and it is
practically full of trees and it has quite a long road for people to
take rides on in a horse and buggy. So I found out that Miss Chapman
had been talking against me quite a lot. So it seems that she has been
making inquiries about me, and I was really surprised to hear all of
the things that Miss Chapman seemed to find out about me except that
she did not find out about Mr. Eisman educating me. So then I had to
tell Mr. Spoffard that I was not always so reformed as I am now,
because the world was full of gentlemen who were nothing but wolfs in
sheeps clothes, that did nothing but take advantadge of all we girls.
So I really cried quite a lot. So then I told him how I was just a
little girl from Little Rock when I first left Little Rock and by that
time even Mr. Spoffard had tears in his eyes. So I told him how I came
from a very very good family because papa was very intelectual, and he
was a very very prominent Elk, and everybody always said that he was a
very intelectual Elk. So I told Mr. Spoffard that when I left Little
Rock I thought that all of the gentlemen did not want to do anything
but protect we girls and by the time I found out that they did not want
to protect us so much, it was to late. So then he cried quite a lot. So
then I told him how I finaly got reformed by reading all about him in
the newspapers and when I saw him in the oriental express it really
seemed to be nothing but the result of fate. So I told Mr. Spoffard
that I thought a girl was really more reformed if she knew what it was
to be unreformed than if she was born reformed and never really knew
that was the matter with her. So then Mr. Spoffard reached over and he
kissed me on the forehead in a way that was full of reverance and he
said I seemed to remind him quite a lot of a girl who got quite a
write-up in the bible who was called Magdellen. So then he said that he
used to be a member of the choir himself, so who was he to cast the
first rock at a girl like I.
So we rode around in the Prater until it was quite late and it really
was devine because it was moonlight and we talked quite a lot about
morals, and all the bands in the prater were all playing in the
distants “Mama love Papa”. Because “Mama love Papa” has just reached
Vienna and they all seem to be crazy about “Mama love Papa” even if it
is not so new in America. So then he took me home to the hotel.
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