The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-04-27
CHAPTER VIII.

SOCIAL circles at west FONT at long,
rare intervals aye shocked by scandal,
and at short ones, say every other sum-
mer-are stirred by some kind of a
sensation, and the Fairy Sisters were
the sensation of the year '97. They
came in July; they went in September,
and meanwhile they were ION the GO"
as they expressed it, from morn till
late at night. Physically they were
the Ightest weights known to the hop
room. Mentally, as their admirers in
tho corps expressed it, '-either of them
can take fall out of any woman at the
Point" and this was especially true of
the elder-Mrs. Frank Garrison
whose husband was on staff duty in
the far west. Both were slight, fragile,
tiny blondes with light blue eyes, with
lighter, fluffy hair, with exquisite lit
tie hands and feet, with oval, prettIy
shaped faces, and the younger, the
maiden sister, had bewitching mouth
and regular, snowy dots of teeth of
which she was justly proud. Yet, as
has been previously said of Mrs. Frank,
while the general effect was in thee
of each that of an extremely pretty
young girl, the elder had no really good
features, the younger only that one.
They generally dressed very much
alike in light, himsy gowns and hats,
gloves and summer shoes all of daz-
zling white-sometimes verging for a
change to creamy hue-but colors,
except for sasheS and Summer shawls,
seemed banished from their wardrobes.
They danced divinely, said the corps,
and preferred cadet partners, to the
joy of the battalion. They rode fear
lessly and well, and had stunning hats
and habits. but few opportunities for
display thereof. They came tripping
down the path from the hotel every
morning, fresh and fair as daisies, in
time for guard mounting, and at any
hour. after that could be found chat
ting with cadet friends at the visitors
tent, strolling arm in arm about the
shaded walks with some of their many
admirers until time to dress for the
evening hop, where they never missed
a dance, and On rainy days, or on those
evenings, when there was neither hop
nor band practice, they could be found,
each in some dinhly lighted, secluded
nook about the north. or west piazza
or ON the steps leading down to the
"Chafn Battery Walk" sometimes sur
rounded by a squad of cadet friends,
but more frequently in murmured
tete-a-tefe with only one cavalier. In
the case of Mrs. Frank no member of
the corps seemed especially favored.
She. was just the. same to every one.
In the case of her younger sister-Mss
Terriss-there presently developed a
dashing young cadet captain who SO
scientifically conducted his campaign
that he headed off almost all compet-
itors and was presently accorded the
lead under the unive1 sally accepted
theory that he had won the little lady's
heart. Obserrant women-and what
women are not observant-of each
other ?-declared both sisters to be des-
perate firts. Society at the Point
frowhed upon them and, after the first
formal call or two, dropped them en-
tiEely-a thing they never seemed to
resent in the least, or.even to notice.
They were never invited out to tea or
dinner on the post-solemn functions
nowhere near SO palatable as the whis-
pered homage of stalwart young man.
hood. '.Nita is yet such child she
infinitely prefers cadet society, and
always did like boys" explained Mrs.
Garrison. Some rather gay old,,hoys
used to run up Saturday afternoons