St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-29
FoOLlNG CHARLEY.
5as Girl Wanted to Make Him Think
She Was Getting Fat.

Sis Girl Wanted to Make Him Think
She Was Getting Fat.
"That girl is gourmand! believe
she never thinks of anything else but
eating" growled a lawyer whose Office
is in the Chamber of Commerce building.
He was debating a brief to one of his
stenographers and the other was at the
telephone. AS the girl wrote down
what the defendant said she gave lit
tie giggle at the evident disgust depicted
upon her employers face. But the yell
low-haired girl at the telephone had not
heard the comment and raised herselfa
little higher on tiptoe that her voice
might be more distinctly heard.
"I ate two boiled eggs" she went on.
eyes, two. They were SO delicious. just
from the country. Then / had some
nice breakfast bacon and fried potatoes.
And / ate three rolls and drank two
cups of coffee. We had grapes and
oranges, too, and l ate q whole orange
and some grapes. Don't you think that
was good breallfast?"
She nodded and smiled at the tele-
phone transmitter. Then she asked in
sweet voice:
Don't you think I am nice girl2
Yes, feel very we'll. Very well, indeed.
really think that have gained at least
pound this week"
"a pound,' g;roaned the attorney as
he paused in the midst of an aforesaid.
''Why, that girl ought to be ready for
a fat woman's show. Gained pound a
week, she ought to weigh ten pounds
more than she did a week ago."
He glanced toward the young woman
who had said good-by through the tele-
phone, hung up the receiver with sat
isfed air and resumed her pounding of
the typewriter. Her employer gazing
at her for long time, then he said to
the young woman who had taken down
his brief:
"It's beyond me. / can't understand
it. She is as thin as rail, and yet for
three months, to my knowledge. she has
been eating enough to kill a horse.
have begun to think she does not think
of anything else but what she eats, for
there hasn't been morning for weeks
past that she hasn't gone to that tele-
phone and told all the things she has
eaten, and where she slows them away
Is beyond me-"
why, she has beau" responded the
other typewriter, impatiently.
What's that got to do with it?" asked
the professional man. "She isn't feed
ing him, is she?''
"Why, of course not. But he Is afraid
she will all. That is one of the stages,
you know. And then he likes fat girls
and Jen is 50 thin
mo, don't know" returned the legal
| mind.
20, you have forgotten" murmured
| the girl, under her breath. 'sBut Charlie
| is afraid anyway that Jen won't live
because she doesn't eat much. Really
and truly she doesn' eat enough to keep
bird alive. board where she does and
she never eats but half piece of toast
| and cup of coffee. Well. he told her he
wanted her to eat more. and so every
morning he telephones to know ii she
has had good breakfast, and she names
over a lot of things she knows he likes,
and SO it is all right"
do you mean that she hasn't eaten
all those things she has told him the last
month";" asked the lawyer MS he ran
| his fingers through his hair.
"Why, Of course not. But Charlie
thinks she is getting fat, and so it's all
right"
| sAll right, / don't see how" said he
rs he glanced toward the very thin girl
who was still pounding away.
"Men are such fools they never do un-
| derstand things" remarked the young
woman to herself as she took up her
pencil and began to write.-Ch Chicago
Chronicle.