The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-13

i CHICAGO Record: shes the dearest
I friend / have in the world" said Eve
& line, enthusiastically, Just the sweet
Il cs, cirl! / know you, would fall In love
4 with her. Yes, Iknow you like to talk,
hut don't believe everything you say.
You walt until you see her. Shes anx-
Iops to .see.you, I've told her, all about
{ -ryerythIng.s Well. nearly everything.
Nd, honestly; don't expect that you'll
l,,0k at me after you've mat Bertha.
cof course. l didn't tell her about
TINT, YOU big goose. No, anyway. there
ale lots OF things that wouldn't dream
ol contrilng to Bertha. used to con-
/ Nle 10 her 4 great deal moro than do
nos, but l found out that she told
1, things, and that made me mad. We
Ind a most dreadful quarrel once about
4 that very thing, and / didn't speak to
4 her for ever so long. But hate to
be unfriendly with any one. and now
We are Just as good chums as we ever
we're. But don't think It's honorable
10 tell things when you've promised sa-
crcdIy and solemnly that you'd never
breathe word, do you?
a don't. either. / think girl
81 don't, either. think girl should
1 have just us high standards about that
sort OF thing as a man. I'm not any,
thing of the kind. I suppose you say
tina, to every girl you meet. Well.
then, that you used to say It. Does
that suit you better? I'm glad Bar-
tia wasn't one of them; bu, she would
have been II you had seen her first. Oh,
but you couldn't have helped yourself,
and she wouldn't have been happy I'M
! Ill she got you In her collection But
, tell you you would have. and you've
4 got to like her: people who like me have
/; 20, 10 like my friends. I should be
awfully unhappy II you didn't. Willie
Benson told me he thought she was the
most fascinating girl he ever met.
"Oh, l don't know Willie likes me
4 pretty we'll and he made the exception,
anyway. No. never In the world. 1
4 would have told you II there had been.
Il I think you are the. most absurd! Ber-
tha-nc. l won't: want to tell you
about Bertha, and you don't seem one
bit Interested. You are not. Blonde,
and know you like blondes; II you
4 didn't you wouldn't have been making
such furious love to Mabel Warner the
night first saw YOU. She thought so,
anyway. She's got the loveliest hair
i why, Bertha, of course-or it would be
II it was 4 little heavier. Still, she
4 for her. only l wish she wouldn't u-e
9 those miserable hair rolls to puff /, out.
] or course. lots Of the girls use them.
Il but I've always thought I'd be content
81 with what grew on my head by nature,
q even II 1t was skinny. Yes. I know 1t
"a it.. al least. wish It wasn't SO thick;
81 It's. such bother TO kaep pinned up.
q Gut you'd like /; tatter II 1t was blond,
Y ,ocldn't you? Honestly. and truly?
'Don't you ever git It mixed up with
4 the other locks? Oh you've got /,
with you, have you? Perhaps that is
the best way to avoid confusion. No.
every night! My gracious! I didn't
think you were so romantic. No, didn';
mean 10 laugh at you. But really and
truly. don't you ever miss single, sin
gle night? Let me look at 1t, nigh;
have given you a better piece than
that suppose you do think l talk
nonsense. Wait until you hear Bertha
talki'
Il suppose that depends on what you
call we'll She never lets the con
versat!on larguish when she's around. |
can tell you that. II you like TO hear
girl talk slang, Bertha would please
you. I've often scolded her for 1t, but
guess she thinks It's smart. I'm aw
iuIly sorry about it. too. because I like
her 50 much, and | know she doesn't
Know how afully 1t sounds sometimes.
" course nobody expects 4 girl to tall:
aoout all sorts OF scientific things and
o!oSies and isms. but one likes TO hca-
something occasionally that shows 4
little depth of character and feeling.
Bertha hns had advantages, too, IL she
haun't always been too lazy to max :,
what she should OF them. or course
she can't help her disposition, though.
wish had her accomplishments but |
haven't anything but my muse.
wen, She paints and docs poxcr
"ork-chiroSraphy. and spraks French.
although I'm sure nobody could ever
understand 1t. and she sings. You won't
ever have any trouble in getting her
10 sing to you. she's not a bl. bashful
though | think her mother Is n erea,
deal to blame FOR taat. Samcbody ,old
her that Bertha had i voics, ana she
oeheVed 1t. II always make; ne frrl
uncomfortable when we are out 10.
se'ner and somebody asks he, to glnr.
Keel sure that they only DO It 20 MAZE
t'h OK her. and l think that is a con.
N'iLi'tlo!e thing to do. / never like Ia
"''he inn of anybody In un iIl-ua;urrl
way No. you don't mean that: you
'"S' say II because you think II VIII
'''"St me- L sing at home, Just 10
a''VSe myself. But you can't make ma
peIlrEe I'm ErIma donna. Well. /.
you IKE to hear me I'm sure I'm satIs.
"sU Oh you know, Mr.. Beechnm
wanted me 10 sing in his choir? Yes
ana when told him TO try anu &c,
heFtha. you ought to have heard him
'dush' No. I didn't have anything
asa'hst the choir. you sarcastic boy
o"' II Bertha had only heard mt say
that! My!