The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
ROOMMATES' TROUBLES.
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Clothes.

Each Othof's Sweetheart as Wei az
Clothes.
Tive come to take sanctuary with
~, said the girl i'll the blue and green
bay The fact is shat l don't care to
meSt Louise for day or two!"
"Reen using her postage stamps,
spilHng her cologne, or-can it be pos
sible that the lovely chiffon boa you
were displaying at the theater the
9th r night was hers?" asked the girl
in ie plum-colored gown.
ph, no, dear child, it's great deal
WI e than that You know you
pr y hesied trouble when Louise and
Rok room together last month"
y think | only said that no room that
was ever built was large enough for two
feminine occupants. What has Louise
been doing, then? Did she hang her
rainy day dress on the hook over your
fullest tea gown, or has she insisted
upon monopolizing the mirror"
F'N-neither; She"
"Will use your curling irons, will she?
Well, the incest girl ever roomed with
did that. Worse still, she used my
bonnet brush on her velvet cape! A
girl who would do a thing like that"
Must come to some violent end!
| know. But l must say for Louise that
she does none of these things. She"
Refuses to get up first in the morn
ing and poke the fire, then? Pshaw,
just let it get out for morning or two
that will fetch her. | know how pink
X.ouise's nose always turns if she gets
the least bit cold!"
''No, she always attends to the fire
won't allow me to touch it, in fact. You
saw me at the thcater with Jack the
other evening, didn't you? You know
he used 20 come to take me out
pretty often when [ was at the other
house, but somehow things haven't
gone so well since l moved. Louise and
| are the only boarders, so we share
the parlor, and"
II begin to see now"
Louise will stay in the room when
Jack calls, and we seldom get a word
alone. To be sure, ne calls oftener than
ever, but"
at does you no good, with another
girl always in the room"
That's it. Now, he spent Tuesday
evening with me-us, rather. | didn' t
see him a moment alone. Louise even
wanted to go to the door with him!"
GLOW ridiculous! And you can't com
plain to him, because of his masculine
vanity"
"That's just it. l knew, too, that he
had something to say, because he tid-
geted so in the hall. He had no chance
to say it, though, and | was not at all
surprised when / came into the room
the following afternoon to see one of
his familiar grayblue envelopes on the
mantel. 1t was dusk, and [ crouched
down on the hearth rug to read it. 1t
was an invitation to go that very even
ing to see that play of which you spoke
when l met you on Monday BY the
way, it was on Sunday that | met him,
and | didn't remember mentioning the
play. Of course, though, | was pleased
to go. He said that, as the time was so
short, he wouldn't bother me to re-
ply, but would come in hopes | would
go"
E,.-,.And you went?"
"Of course. You should have seen
| how envious Louise was. She'd been
| talking about that play for a week
But what puzzled me was Jacks be
| havior when he came. He seemed sur
prised to see me waiting for him.
Expected you to keep him waiting
| most likely"
"And he asked so oddly for Louise"
supposed that she wasn't in the
room, | suppose"
"And all evening he was so queer and
| Eighty that as soon as I got up this
| morning-Louise had gone down tc
| breakfast-I fished out that invitation
| to the theater and reread it carefully
hoping to find the key to the mystery
"And did you?"
eyes. | hadn't looked at the envelope
| at all. 1t was addressed to Louise.''-
| Chicago Times-Herald.