The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-08-08
THE
CHUBBY GIRL.
AM afraid l am not bit chubby,

said the girl who thought she was
up to date. 81 suppose the whole trou-
BILE is that 1 am not in the running.
I'm dead and don't know it. So Ole
ander says, and what Oleander says
goes. Oleander is new woman.
cit was at the Comb and Brush
club that met her. Ethel was there
and she said:
"'Wouldn't you like to meet Olean-
der Vining Hook, dear?'
"'Do you mean the Oleander Hook p
asked.
eyes, Oleander Hook, who. writes
things. You see, the Comb and Brush
girls are so used to genius they don't
mind it Bit
81 have worshiped her verses for
years. said, those dear, tender dew
droppy little things that have the very
decidedly l should like to meet her. 1
shall consider this somewhat aimless
afternoon well spent
"'Wen, here she comes gurgled
Ethel.
81 looked up and saw spOrty-look-
ing blonde, with hay-colored hair COM
ing over, taking long strides and with
a sort of varsity droop to her Shout
ders. She leaned forward from the
waist up, and gun-metal cigarette
case dangled from her belt.
''She had tight tailor skirt with a
crease down the front and hip peck
cts. A scarlet waistcoat showed be-
meath jaunty little mess jacket, and
Ner watch fob was of leather. Then
she had stock tie with a horseshoe
pin and flaring Panama hat like a
mans.
''She came over with broad grin
and gave my hand a grip, then slowly
pumped it right and left. 1t was most
disconcerting."
"'WeH, you old beggar,' she said,
you don't mean to say you've forgot
ten me?'
Il confess 1 was somewhat stunned
by the mode of address, and then it
was that 1 reflected that after all this
was probably the proper thing. Stay
ing away from club life makes one a
fossil!
'Iwas quite sure had never met her,
though, for her dewdrop poem had
made such an impression on me that
I'd have recollected.
"I hardly think 1 began, smiling
establishment, that is, I am quite sure
I've never met you, but I've read you
with much pleasure
"'Oh, break it off, break it off,
short, you beggar,' she said; you
know very well we were on the same
committee in the Electric club
Now l am sure you are mistaken,
l said, pleasantly, trying to ignore
her fad for addressing me as beg
gar; i never belonged to the Elec-
trio
club. What?'
Nor to that said.
"'Oh, come! you're pulling my leg,
she said.
"She certainly is a breezy girl
Oleander is. 1 didn't know what TIC
say, so 1 just smiled.
"'You were chairman of the recep-
ton committee of the Thursday P N
club, or I'll pay for the dinner she
said.
"'Never belonged to it, repeated
was getting a little tired.
| "'Then the Do 1t To-Day club. That
is it. I'm twisted. 1t was the Do II
| To-day
"'Never heard of the club / said
'.She stared at me as if she thought
that 1 was lying.
1.-The fact is. Miss Hook, I've never
| belonged to any woman's club said
i once belonged to dinner club, but
there were as many men as women in
it. Prof. Volt, the electrician, was
president. 1t was quite prosy, sci
entific sort of a."
"'Did you belong to that tough
club?' she, asked.
ETHEL broke in here to avoid trou
BILE.
".oh. how nice. Tell me about it,
she said.
"'It was beastly tough crowd,
went on Oleander; that was where
met you. Beastly tough. A lot of the
worst Founders 1 ever was VI
against
81 suppose it must have been il
YOU began.
"'Were there, 1 suppose you ar,
going to say she CALCULATED
mo. l wasn't going to say -
replied I always endeavor to avoi:
being rude
Really she seemed most unpleas
ant person. There was nothing dew