Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-07-13
PITY THE ABSENT-MINDED.
For These Are Some of the Accidents
Which Daily Befan Them.

Which Daily Befan Them.
''It is great misfortune to be alb
sent-minded," remarked the young
woman in gray.
Indeed it is" groaned the girl with
pompadoured hair, land 1 know all
about it if any body does. Invent shop
ping with Ida the other day and we
must have exchanged parasols in the
first shop we entered. She found she
had miu6 when she got home and
brought it over to me, and-would you
believe it?-the one l had wasn't hers
at all, and, as l may have exchanged
it half dozen times for all 1 know.
her prospect of getting it back is not
at all bright"
81 should think not" said the young
woman in gray. But my latest ex-
ploit is equally bad. l came up from
Hyde Park the other day to go to a
luncheon on the north side, stopping
on the way for pair of gloves. When
l came out of the store / found had
only twenty minutes, so / took a cab.
What was my surprise to find myself at
home when we stopped, and yet I must
have given the man my own address
or he couldn't possibly have known it."
Very true. / did funny thing not
long ago, myself" said the young
woman in green. Il paid a lot of calls
and / noticed that everyone looked
queer, but | couldn't think why until
| found that | had been leaving the
cards / had left over when ! was mar
ried. And now everybody is asking
Harry when we were divorced"
my goodness, that was awful" said
the young woman in gray. Now,
often forget the name of the woman
I'm calling ont slips right out of my
head when I ascend the front steps
and am reduced to asking for the lady
of the house. 1t sometimes gives rise
to complications, too." she added,
where people have moved away and
given place to total strangers"
81 should think So" said the girl
with pompodoured hair, ''but can't
sit in the seat of the scornful myself.
The other dly wrote Matte all about
the breaking of Prue's engagement
My mind was SO full of her
that actually addressed the envelope
to Prue herself. She sent it back
without a word, and now I'm busy
dodging into stores and up alleyways
to avoid meeting her.
''No wonder" observed the young
woman in green, but I'm just as bad.
The other day Clara and / were out
together and on the way home I gave
the conductor two nickels What's
this one for?' he asked. why, for the
other lady I answered. Then 1 sud-
denly remembered that she had left
me before I got in the car
''Yes; it is a real misfortune to be
absent-minded, said the girl with
pOmpadoured hair. THE other day /
told Evelyn an awful funny story, and
couldn't imagine why she was so stiff
about it until l remembered that it
was about an accident which had be-
fallen her own hush and"
"You poor thing" said the young
woman in gray. But just listen what
l did last week! / went to the milli-
ners and triedon a lot of hats. None of
them just suited me and was prepar-
ing to go when the saleswOma hand
ed me another. oh, it's no use to try
thaAone on said. It's a perfect
fright 1t is the one you were wear
ing when you came in she replied
politely, and my feelings may be bet
ter imagined than described"
81 should think so, said the young
woman in green. my goodness!
What shall l do? l left my husband
in the waiting-room at the Babel while
1 went to buy a veil, then 7 aeS
you and forgot all about him. Do you
suppose he is there yet?"
''If he is l shouldn't advise you to go
after him. remarked the young wom-
an in gray, because our meeting hap
pened a matter of four hours ago. y,
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