"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 in the afternoon Henry went to prayer meeting and I was left alone
with Henry’s mother so that we could rest up so that we could go to
church again after supper. So Henry’s mother thinks I am nothing but
sunshine and she will hardly let me get out of her sight, because she
hates to be by herself because, when she is by herself, her brains
hardly seem to work at all. So she loves to try on all of my hats and
she loves to tell me how all the boys in the choir can hardly keep
their eyes off her. So of course a girl has to agree with her, and it
is quite difficult to agree with a person when you have to do it
through an ear trumpet because sooner or later your voice has to give
out.
So then supper turned out to be practically the same thing as luncheon
only by supper time all of the novelty seemed to wear off. So then I
told Henry that I had to much of a headache to go to church again, so
Henry and his mother went to church and I went to my room and I sat
down and thought and I decided that life was really to short to spend
it in being proud of your family, even if they did have a great deal of
money. So the best thing for me to do is to think up some scheme to
make Henry decide not to marry me and take what I can get out of it and
be satisfied.
June 22nd:
Well, yesterday I made Henry put me on the train at Philadelphia and I
made him stay at Philadelphia so he could be near his father if his
father seemed to take any more relapses. So I sat in my drawing room on
the train and I decided that the time had come to get rid of Henry at
any cost. So I decided that the thing that discouradges gentlemen more
than anything else is shopping. Because even Mr. Eisman, who was
practically born for we girls to shop on, and who knows just what to
expect, often gets quite discouradged over all of my shopping. So I
decided I would get to New York and I would go to Cartiers and run up
quite a large size bill on Henry’s credit, because after all our
engagement has been announced in all of the newspapers, and Henry’s
credit is really my credit.
So while I was thinking it all over there was a knock on the drawing
room door, so I told him to come in and it was a gentleman who said he
had seen me quite a lot in New York and he had always wanted to have an
introduction to me, because we had quite a lot of friends who were
common. So then he gave me his card and his name was on his card and it
was Mr. Gilbertson Montrose and his profession is a senario writer. So
then I asked him to sit down and we held a literary conversation.
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