The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-17
why This Girl says Pleasant Things.

! Examiner: 4 always make II a point
to say pleasant things about the other
girls said the girl in the sailor hat
1T does sound better. doesn't it?" re-
turned the girl in the poke bonnet.
1T isn't so much that, dear the fact
is that I'm superstitious about it. If l
| allow myself to say anything mean about
a girl something always happens to make
me sorry. Why, last summer we We're
staying at a quiet country place, and
one of the girls was all the time com
planning that there were no young men
about. Finally, 1 got tired and told some
/ body that it wouldn't do her any good II
| there were dozens
with the result that the first man who
appeared fell in love with her! L know.
mo, dear he was her brother. he
began to pay attention, when she prompt
ly told him that L was engaged.
'Ah, well; if it was true
But it wasn't. He happened to know
man who-well, who had gone so far
as to ask me if l thought a married man
ought to spend all his evenings at home
They met not long afterward, talked Of
me, and the consequence was that 1 lost
them both because L had said a. mean
thing about another girl.
Mercy that was bad luckI Why"
Yes, and one day not long ago l said
| didn't blame Sue for wearing false
hair; that I'd do it myself if had as
| little as She.
And what did she say about you in
Nothing, dear. She merely hunted up
photograph of me taken in the street
dress of six years ago. and hung it up
in the parlor. Then she invited Dick
Freshly to call"
''But / don't see"
Il had told him that I only got out of
Upon my word, that was a mean
trick. Did that break you?'
'Of saying mean things? Not quite.
You remember how attentive that rich
~ 10 n IIrIi 10 net
Seems to me I do. but
well. got d good chance to tell him
about Charley. and 1 did. The conse-
quence was that he proposed to me in
stead and II accepted him
But don't see any bad uck N
world six weeks later. and 1 think how
much nicer at would have been to have
that happen to Julia instead of me-"
''Of course it would, but
Eyes. Well, the next thing I did was
merely to remark that since arie had
tried everything else on her face, she
might use a lite soap and water. After
that she refused to have anything to do
with mer'
L know; then she went abroad and be-
came engaged to a count"
Yes, and only think if we had re-
manned intimate all the papers in town
would have interviewed me on the sub
ject of marriage.
Yes, and you might have aired all her
past history IN the most friendly way.
Il know. Well, as if that was not
enough. 1 told Mr.. Greener that the fusn
upon Helen's cheek was a great deal
prettier than it was natural"
well, l am sure it was true, any
how; So
YES, but Teddy's mother, to whom
had been mild and meek, heard me say
it. and decided that daughter-in-iaw
with such tongue would not be pleas
ant"
"Oh. but what difference did her opinion
make, anyhow
"A great deal in this case, dear. She
will not give eddy that house in Thirty
fifth street if he marries me-and 1 Will
not marry HIM unless she does"
ION, well, one can get even with other
girls without saying mean things
80 L have discovered said the girl
in the sailor hat