The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-01
ferior seventeenth. but superior women

ferior seventeenth. but superior women
ought never to-
Mrs Wardor-Listen to another woman's
love letter. She may have to pretend to
like it, but in her heart she writhes at it.:
men are just such ~tactless blunderers as to
read a letter to the very woman who has
most cause to be jealous, and while she is
smiling and doing the correct thing exter-
nally, she is really manglinQ and raging at
every word. If men were as long headed
Miss Worthington-His last novel.
These morbid, twisted up, interpretive
consclence-ridden women make me mex
pressibly weary. He can do no better when
he tries, too. There's sweet. healthful, in
dependent Alma Leighton, with her ''inten-
tional prettiness," and her big, brave
heart. 70 mush of concession there! After
all. who would have believed tina MI. How
ellis would have
Miss Dorsey-Put on a divided skirt?
Never! My girl Mildred and my son Dicks
wife, they both wear 'em and pretend to be
ever SO much more easy-like; but I'm get.
ting to be an old woman and l like the feel
o. skirts ROUND me. It would seem sort O.
strange and indecent without 'em. If my
mother could o down and see me in any
thing like pants I would expect to meet her
at the gate more scary than the Judgment
day; Ny girl can do as she pleases, and
Mrs. Gordon-She ought to be perfectly
III eAS 0AO g ~oACAA Q OICbS0
straight from Paris, an educated poodle
that can talk, and a divorce. She has lust
got back from
Mrs. Hooper-The Maine coast, whore
everything was propinquity. kisses and
stumbling over 1aunces in dim corners. I
wasn't but q, but they actually thought
me quite IAN old thing" Then l went
directly to the A~dirondacks to visit Helen
-28 and married-and there I was SO young
that the seven serious youths from down
east never noticed me. Through all the six
weeks of my stay they preserved the what's
Hecuba-to-me-or-I- to-Hecuba attitude
without flaw or enort, and l went home a
blighted blossom. Helen admitted, years
later. that the handsomest and iolliest did
esk her IF | were married." Oh, had
but known it L
.hrs. Crittendon-Wore the very first
Dolly Warden that ever entered the sacred
precincts OF the Cowdith household. How
those prim, big, long-waisted dowdy girls
stared at me! I felt like a monkey in a red
jacket, and as loud as a fire alarm. They
belonged to the Society of Christian En-
deavor, mi believed in the future OF
woman. l always wear black when ]
go there now IN sign OF penitence, though
l look like an inspired idiot in it. Dick
says
Miss Phillips-Ihe undertaken didn't
know that he WAS to be cremated, and 30 be
put On one of those CHASTITY suits thai only
comes in halves. When they took him out
to place him in the retort all the things fell
off. and it made a perfect scandal. He was
a horrible old brute and nobody mourned
him, but the widow said she did want him
burned in a whole suit of clothes. The choir
sang Refining Fires" and we all hoped
that he would find some kind beside those
of the crematOry. / was brought up a good
Universalist. but | confess l don't see what
we are going to do with all these disagree
ables saved. j sometimes wish l believed
IN
Mrs. Crichton-Mrs. Kendall! Sh. is the
dearest woman in the world, of course: but
actress on the boards. The lady doth pro.
test too much, methinks. The idea, too, of
her saying nasty English things about our
taste in dress when she wore a thick, black
veil the night she spoke to the Goethe club.
Just the thing the typical heroine in an
English novel puts on with her poioshes
to meet her adored Augustus, under her
ancestral elms. in d rain storm. 1 heard.
too, that
Miss kobertson-He tried to kiss her in
the conservatory, and when / told her
hoped she knew how to rebuks hin prop
erly, she laughed in my face and said, with
the greatest sang froid: Dear Edith, when
you are my age you will be grateful to any
man who shows "A desire to kiss you."t She
is very plain and over forty, you know, but
/ think her answer was q tribe
Mrs. Covill Ito her hostess)-Late! Why
it's almost dark. Good-by dear; We have
had such a nice, instructive time. Do have
it soon again.
1.-THE guests rise and make their adieus
by two and threes, and in ten minutes the
rooms are empty.
! Miss Russell (slowiy, and with dramatic