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# "Gallantry Forgot" - Analysis This is a short story illustration rather than political satire. The narrative, by J.A. Waldron with illustrations by Robert Patterson, depicts young women at a beach resort lounging under a canopy. The story's humor centers on **social expectations of courtship and feminine modesty** in what appears to be the 1920s era. The women discuss whether a "handsome chap" they noticed will approach them, with concerns about propriety—one character worries another girl might "get him first," while another frets about appearing too forward. The title "Gallantry Forgot" suggests the joke: despite being at a fashionable resort full of eligible men, none actually court them. The satire targets both the women's preoccupation with romantic conquest and the supposed decline of gentlemanly attention.
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“That’s our chap!” exclaimed May. GALLANTRY FORGOT ne BEACTI disclosed the usual mid- | week multitude of women and woeful minority of men. It was not an ultra-fashionable resort, yet. many of those there evidently figured—of course unwillingly—in the surtax column of the income tax table. Most of the multimillionaires were probably on com- petitive show at more fashionable There are compensations to the by- stander that sentimentally counterbalance mere money. There were relatively as many pretty women at this resort, perhaps, 2 any other in which greater ge wealth figured. Possibly the itage of pretty women here was greater. It was a lazy, sunny afternoon. Two young and sightly women, dressed more th a camera or male admiration in view than with a purpose to get wet, lounged some distance from the crowd and near the shore under a canopy large enough to sereen them from the sun yet frank enongh to show them to passers by. eS. by J. A. Waldron Illustration by Robert Patterson “T wonder, Genevieve, if that handsome chap we saw at luncheon will go in this afternoon?” one asked. “He looked at you—or was it at me?—almost con- stantly.” “I'm generous enough to admit that he might have been looking at both of us May,” the other replied. “And T also wonder if he will come out in regalia. “If he should, would you have an impulse to see if the colors in your cos- tume are fast?” “IT might. I have another quite as fetching as this if these colors should ru “IT might too, although I have nothing else with me but that very ordinary practical suit.” Both laughed as though they enjoyed the thought. “But only one of us can try him out,” said Genevieve. “He may not appear at all, We may be fooled. Yet we ld settle preliminaries. I'll match for the first chance if he does come.” “That's fair.” if Ne YOUNG WoMEN produced small bags from a miscellany of wraps. azines and feminine odds and ends t forth a coin, Genevieve won the apparently remote possibility of a flirtation in’ the water with the stranger. “But what if some other girl should get him first?” May asked. “That would exclude me for the day, r, but there will be other days. and a chance, maybe, for both of us.” She glanced along the shore. “We seem, however, to be the only females in sight that could be classed as magnetic.” Genevieve adjusted herself to a f attitude and arranged her plumage bird might. “I wonder if you remember how many times you've been taught to swim by good-looking chaps?” “No. But I've been taught so many times and have become so expert in the water that the way to pretend ignorance of the art has become a science with me, as it has with you, you cheater! behind them and cach bro comicbooks.com