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The Project Gutenberg EBook of 'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' AND 'Isn't That Just Like a Man!', by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb and Mary Roberts Rinehart This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org 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 Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW WOMEN ARE *** Produced by Bryan Ness, David Wilson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) "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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