"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
So after Henry left I held quite a conversation with Lulu, who is my
maid who looked out for my apartment while I was away. So Lulu really
thinks I ought to marry Mr. Spoffard after all, because Lulu says that
she kept studying Mr. Spoffard all of the time she was unpacking my
trunks, and Lulu says she is sure that any time I feel as if I had to
get away from Mr. Spoffard I could just set him down on the floor, and
give him a packet of riskay french postcards to senshure and stay away
as long as I like.
So Henry is going to arrange for me to come down to Pennsylvania for a
week-end and meet all of his family. But if all of Henry’s family are
as full of reforms as Henry seems to be, it will be quite an ordeal
even for a girl like I.
June 15th:
Yesterday morning was quite an ordeal for a refined girl because all of
the newspapers all printed the story of how Henry and I are engaged to
one another, but they all seemed to leave out the part about me being a
society girl except one newspaper, and that was the newspaper that
quoted what Dorothy said about me being a debutant at the Elk’s
Carnival. So I called up Dorothy at the Ritz and I told Dorothy that a
girl like she ought to keep her mouth closed in the presents of
reporters.
So it seems that quite a lot of reporters kept calling Dorothy up but
Dorothy said she really did not say anything to any of them except one
reporter asked her what I used for money and she told him buttons. But
Dorothy really should not have said such a thing, because quite a few
people seem to know that Mr. Eisman is educating me and that he is
known all over Chicago as Gus Eisman the Button King, so one thing
might suggest another until people’s minds might begin to think
something.
But Dorothy said that she did not say anything more about me being a
debutant at Little Rock, because after all Dorothy knows that I really
did not make any debut in Little Rock, because just when it was time to
make my debut, my gentleman friend Mr. Jennings became shot, and after
the trial was over and all of the Jury had let me off, I was really
much to fatigued to make any debut.
So then Dorothy said, why don’t we throw a party now and you can become
a debutant now and put them all in their place, because it seems that
Dorothy is dying for a party. So that is really the first sensible
suggestion that Dorothy has made yet, because I think that every girl
who is engaged to a gentleman who has a fine old family like Henry, had
really ought to be a debutant. So I told her to come right over and we
would plan my debut but we would keep it very, very quiet and give it
tomorrow night, because if Henry heard I was making my debut he would
come up from Pennsylvania and he would practically spoil the party,
because all Henry has to do to spoil a party is to arrive at it.
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