Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-21
PHEMIE AND PH0SlE

alcoye dining room of the swell club of
their city. Il heard it this morning but
we have been so driven with the classes
and all that l nave not had a chance to
tell you-besides. it is not pleasant
Hurry up with it, Phosie. You al
ways take so long to tell anything!'
You are hungry, Picnic, and that is
what makes you so edgy. / guess l had
better wait till you get through the soup
"Oh, dear, have the Philadelphia pic
lures been refused?'
Mercy. how far off you are. 1t IS right
here at home-it is nothing except that
that Mr.. Green wants to JOIN the Emer-
sonians.'
He does! Oh thought we had got rid
of him."
"No, indeed. He is more and more in
evidence. He has moved his law office so
that he is only two blocks away from our
studio building, and if he joins the Emer-
sonians We can't avoid meeting him once
a week.
WE can go very quietly to the Emer-
s%onians if we wish to, and hardly speak
to anybody at all, but just listen to the
papers and the music, and then come
away
Yes, and sit in the corner all the time
and melt into the wall paper when we see
any one coming towards us. and always
keep together so that people do not know
US apart. Haven't o noticed hat they
call us Miss Harrington and the other
Miss Harrington
Yes, they did that last time when they
V out the appointments. But al
ways feel better when I am near you
when we are out in company
well. we can't give in to our feelings.
there is too much of that going on all
about us. Think of the ~people-the Floyds
for instance-WhO come to our studio re-
ceptions and keep around together and
never speak to any n else
They buy our pictures afterwards.
though said Phenlie. and that is nice
Of them
Yes, but they do not help to make the
evening pleasant. while they are there
and I am afraid you and I act a good deal
like them when We are out at parties
But I am so tired of having people
say. oh. you are Miss Phemie. I am so
glad I am getting to know you we'll enough
to tell you and your sister ~apart.'-ana
then I just dash their condolences by say
ing-'No. I am PhOsie'-I don't see why
our people called us such queer names"
We'll, we ant help the names and we
are certainly not to blame for being twins
and looking alike, but I have thought
lately that we We're to blame for not maxi
ing a stand for our own identity. in some
way or other. You are you. and I am I
and we ought to make people realize it
without any words. I am going to turn
over a new leaf and speak to every one at
the EmersOnians next time we are there
said Phemie.
Il am going to sit still and be comfort
able just as l always have" said Phosie
Then they viii call me the lively Miss
Harrington and you the quiet one"
What will you say to that-that Mr.
Green? He will be holding out his hand t.
shake hands with You in his odious
way
Il shall ignore his handbook him in tn,
face and bOw-and then, we'll, I dom
know what, maybe I shall have an inspir
ation.'
I have always wanted to get even will
him, only I would not stoop to let hin
know that I knew about it."
I'VE might black-ball him when hi
name is voted on" said Picnic.
Il could not blackhall a mouse sal
Phosie. I'd sooner leave the room, or &c
on a chair in case of the mouse, or re
sign if that Mr.. Green comes in"
'Oh, hat is cowardly-Tn go and tai
with Mrs. Register about it. She is j
with the president, and chairman of III
committee and she can nave thing her ow
way"
These little ladies in brown were artist
who had their rooms and studio in tn
Fine Arts building of a charming milan
city, where they taught classes, and paint
ed very good pictures. All the best pee
pie in the city knew these ladies an
spoke of them as Our best lady artists.
They Were the gra~nddaughtcrs of Ol
General Harrington. who fought in Isl
and lived in fine estate ever afterwards
Their names were Triphena and Tripos
conferred upon them in honor of some an
cestral twins who since died and left
trunk full of old silver to them. tt
Harrington girls had never married. pos
sibly because there We're always two c
them in the same place at the same tim,
Collectively they were very attractive, bu
the individual cOurtship of either one. b
herself alone, for herself alone, was a.
most an impossibility. In her giddy yout
these girls had taken a mischievous pleas
ure in puZZling and ~bewildering the youn
men Of their acquaintance. No yOun
man, however nimble his wits, wanted I
court TWO girls at once without KNOWN
that he was doing it. To propose t
Phemie one day and be accepted h
Phosie the next was a dilemma for an
young man. You never asked me- sai
Phosie shaking her head. And L gay
you no answer said Picnic shakin
hers.
And if you are engaged at all, it ism
to either of US"
SO it went on through the laughing
whirling years Of youth. Matrimonial
speaking, the Harrington girls did NJ
make hay while the sun shOne, and Whe
the shadows of the thirties came dow
upon them, it u them almost alor
in the grand old homestead, with bl
little company to enliven it, and a scar
income to keep it up on. Better by f
a studio in the city, with busy tides
life about them, the stimulus of woI
and the cas- pleasures of mild social lif
tlan tha cold ID the Isolation an