Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-05

Whatever my faults are. and they
are many, vanity is not one of them.
when I said you had a bad temper
YOU made the same remark about it.
Also when"
"Thar was last week stupid! But, Of
course. if YOU think me ugly"
"I did not say that
eyes, yOu Gid.
"But if YOU think nothing OF your
personal appearance, why blame me if
i agree with you?'
She rose haughuly.
Sit down
ct won't Give me my scarf" Her
eyes were flashing. She has all sorts Of
eyes.
III you really want to know what
7 think of your personal appearance"
II don't.
I resumed my pipe.
"Wel?' she said.
"Wel?"
"Oh. I thought YOU were going to say
something"
Only that your back pleased me in
certain other respects.
She let the chair take her back into its
embrace.
Mary. dear
tits fact that She was crying. After
Z had made remark or two:
IL ann so glad YOU think me pretty,
she sad frankly, for though / don't
think SO myself. like other people 10
think Be-, and somehow l thought you
considered me plain. Ny nose is all
wrong isn't ito
LET me see
so YOU admit you we're entirely mis-
taken in calling me vain2"
You have proved that ] was
However. after she had drawn the
daggers cut of her head and put them
into the scarf tor whatever part of a
lady's dress it is that is worked with
oasgers), and when the door had closed
ON her, she opened it and hurriedly
fired these shots at me.
yes. / am horribly vain-I do my
hair every night before I so TO bed
was sure You admired me the very first
time we nett know I have a pretty
nose good afternoon
HER SELFISHNESS.
She was making spills for me. be-
cause those Thomson made for me had
run down.
Mary
"Well2''
'1lary. dear
81 ann listening
fhG is ALL
You have such a curious. wasteful
iaait OF saying ones name as if it
Wts O. remark by itself"
Yes Thomson has noticed that. also.
However, l think I.meant to add that
Do Is very good of YOU to make those
spills. ] wonder if YOU would do some
thing else for me?'
"As p friend 2'
Yes. l want YOU to I'll my pipe
and ram down the tobacco with your
l.-le finger"
"Yoa and 2Ir. Thomson do that for
each C.ler?'
"0f.en."
"vsry we'll Give it to me. This
vcy.
lr smokes beautifully. You are a
dear, good girl"
She lc- the poker fan.
ON. im pot she vailed. 81 am not
really 6-nc-le2rted. Il is an selfish
uess
This came out with rush. but I am
used % her. and kept my pipe i'm.
Even my charities are only hide
ous kind Of seiishness. 90 she continued
with c'asped hands. There is that
poor man who sells match-boxes at the
corner Of the street. for instance. I
sometimes give him twOpence." (She
rt..-'s -2 enormous purse. but there is
never more than twOpence in IT'D
Ihat rs surely not selfish. I said.
"lt is. said she, Selling the poker as
b. intending To- 90 for herself that in
slant "I never give him anything sim
ply because / see he needs it. but only
9ualiy when 7 feel happier than
usual j am only thinking of my own
happiness when I give if to him. That
Us tho personifcadon Of selfshness.'
Mary"
Well if that isn't. this is I only
sira him something when I am pass
ing him, az any rate. never dream Of
crossing The street on purpose TO do it.
On. I should need to be terridcally hap
py before 7 would bother crossing 10
give him anything There! what do
You think of me nOw?"
"You give him something on Monday
when I was with yOu?'
yes
"Tben You were happy at that time?"
what has that to do with it,"
CA great deal"
I rose.
"2iary. dear"
no, Co and sit over there"
STAGGERERS
The subjects we have discussed over
the poker, For instance:
The r3pidity with which we grow old.
What on earth Mr.. Meredith means
br saying that women viii De the last
tang civilized by man.
Thomson.
What viii it all matter hundred
years hence?
How strangely unlike other people
We are,
Iheu .c-s, name Tor woman (Mary)
The mystery of b .ng and not Being.
Why does Mary exist?
Does Many eXisJ2
She had come in, looking very dole
fD. and The reason was Jh3t. the more
sha thought iJ over the less could she
see why she existed This came Of
reading a work entitled "Why Do We
EX.ste' kind of book thar ought not
To- De published. for il only makes peo-
pie unhappy. Mary stared at the prob
lem with wide. nXed eyes until | COM
PEELED her 20 wink 10y putting another
ia front of it. ramely. do Won exist?"
i'm her ignorance she thought there was
n0 d0ub, Of This. but lent her a "Bish-