Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-11-24
BROTHERS.

A"o NICE Girls Talk Over Their Trsa. ~,
Misuses.
brotners are very useful sometimes ~ e
marked the girl with the roses IN her half
very" assented the girl with the SHOT
SILK gown, but sometimes they are q l;ttIe
trying-l am angry with Phil Just now
W nat has he done?" eagerly asked tbs
girl with the roses in her belt. HAVING !
brother myself think | can sympathize j.
:, ! know. Well, you see it is this wav
ioung Coldeash likes me, | know. but If
- so aWfuliy bashful that he could not re,
up .he courage to call, and, having a broth.
II oi my own, knew it would be simnlv
Iuino'is 70 get up an intimacy with his sis
ter, SOL '-'' 'i9-
90 you bribed your brother to ask him
70 come, put in the girl with the roses in
her belt. 'o's' ~
VI course. | bribed Phil to do it Inv get-
.inS Louise an invitation to Aunt Rates
garden party"
"Well?p
wen, he did it. and they got to be great
iriends-l didn't just want that. Won know
LOT every time / would be getting n nice
quiet talk with him, that provoking broth
er would come and drag him away. saving.
Tome on, old fellow. | know Won don't
want to waste so much time on sis Sba,lI
talk you to death if you let her., OF course
he was too bashful to saw he vanted 20
stay"- W
How perfectly horrid! Why didn't Won
tell your brother2"
u did, and the next time he said. Come
on, old fellow can see you,re dving ~
get away, and I'll make it all right Win
sis after you're gone.'"
We'll, never! hope youn-
on' yes got even with him. didn't
waste any time on tears and reproaches. /
with me-"
But don't see''-
Why, goosie, his room is next to mine.
ana we laughed and talked until 2 o'clock.
lie knows that know all about that little
altalr OF his at college last year, and he
thought was telling Louise about it and
we were laughing at him. Oh, | tell Won
he was fairly Wild"
I'm glad to hear it. Now, when my
brother gets troublesome, / lust ask the
girl he used to be engaged to to spend the
evening with me. OF course he has to take
her home, and nearly die of laughing over
how awkward he feels"
What splendid ideal Still, brothers
have their uses--one learns from them how
to manage the other men,"
Doesn't one9 Now, for instance. when
they dine at the house, how would u girl
know that they were dying for an after din
ner smoke if she hadn't brother?"
very true, and he would be cross and
they would fall to quarreling before they
knew it's
Mercy, yes. Then, too, you can find out
from your brother what they are really in.
terested in, and it saves q lot of time not IN
have to feel your way from Shakespeare 70
the races aud from politics to tennis to fino
what he wants to talk about"
Indeed it does. It's awful, though, if
your brother gets mad and tells''-
Indeed it is. Mine doesn't dare to now.
though, he knows if he does l will Just tell
Edith all about Fan. You see he has told
her that he never proposed to any girl but
her, and-well, l happen to have letter
from Fan telling me all about it,"
You are in luck. Why that letter ought
to be worth couple of bonnets and an
escort to several parties a season."
~ is. I've only to mention it and get
whatever want, though, of course. only
use it in extreme cases."
"Of course, He'd get accustomed to it If
you used it too often. do pity Stella"
why? She has three brothers,
Il know, but they are none of them in
love, and she can't do a thing with them"
But they will be some day. Well, I
must go now I've promised Phil to go
with him to select an engagement ring.
There's silver hairpin that need dread
fully
But the ring you select will never suit
Louise"
"Oh, that's all right. He doesn't know
it, but went to the shop with her yester-
day, and she selected the one she wanted.
In return she is to use her influence with
Phil to make him get papa to take back
what he said to poor, dear Fred. Goodby,
dear Chicago Tribune.