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Title: 'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' AND 'Isn't That Just Like a Man!'
'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' by Cobb; and 'Isn't
That Just Like a Man!' by Rinehart
Author: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Release Date: January 12, 2008 [EBook #24259]
Language: English
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"OH, WELL, YOU KNOW
HOW WOMEN ARE!"
BY
IRVIN S. COBB
Author of "The Life of the Party,"
"Back Home," "Old Judge Priest," etc.
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY THE CROWELL PUBLISHING COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
"OH, WELL, YOU KNOW HOW WOMEN ARE!"
She emerges from the shop. She is any woman, and the shop from which she
emerges is any shop in any town. She has been shopping. This does not
imply that she has been buying anything or that she has contemplated
buying anything, but merely that she has been shopping--a very different
pursuit from buying. Buying implies business for the shop; shopping
merely implies business for the clerks.
As stated, she emerges. In the doorway she runs into a woman of her
acquaintance. If she likes the other woman she is cordial. But if she
does not like her she is very, very cordial. A woman's aversion for
another woman moving in the same social stratum in which she herself
moves may readily be appraised. Invariably it is in inverse ratio to the
apparent affection she displays upon encountering the object of her
disfavor. Why should this be? I cannot answer. It is not given for us to
know.
Very well, then, she meets the other woman at the door. They stop for
conversation. Two men meeting under the same condition would
mechanically draw a
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