The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28
THE
CHUBBY GIRL
6 I An afraid am not bit clubby,"

AN AFRAID am not Dlt cluDDy,
said the girl who thought she was
up TO date. 81 suppose the whole trou-
BILE is that | ain not in the running.
I'm dead and / don't know it. So Ole
ander says, and what Oleander says
goes. Oleander is a new woman.
at 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"
! asked.
eyes, Oleander Hook, who writes
things. You see, the Comb and Brush
girls are so used to genius they don't
mind it a bit
"I have worshiped her verses for
wears, | said, those dear, tender dew
droppy little things that have the very
scent of apple blossoms in them. Most
decidedly / should like To meet her. |
shall consider this somewhat aimless
afternoon well spent
"'Well, here she comes gurgled
Ethel.
y
ing blonde, with hay-colored hair COM
ing over, taking long strides and with
sort of varsity droop to her shoul-
ders. She leaned forward from the
waist up, and a gunmetal cigarette
case dangled from her belt.
"She had tight tailor skirt with a
crease down the front and hip pock-
cts. \ scarlet waistcoat showed be-
meath iaunty little mess jacket, and
her watch fob was of leather. Then
she had stock tie with 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."
"'Well, you old beggar,' she said
you don't mean to say you've forgot
ten me?'
II confess | was somewhat stunned
by the mode of address, and then it
was that | 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 I began, smiling
weakly, while Ethel looked at us il
astonishment, that is, am quite sure
I've never met you, but I've read yor
with much pleasure.
"'Oh, break it off, break it off
short, you beggar,' she said; 'yol
know very well we were on the sam,
committee in the Electric club
"Now | am sure you are mistaken,
l said, pleasantly, trying to ignor,
her fad for addressing me as a beg
gar; Il never belonged to the Elec
tric'
"Then it was the Thursday p. NJ
club. What?'
"'Nor to that | said.
"'0h, come you're pulling my leg,
she said.
"She certainly is breezy girl
0leander is. | didn't know what Il
say, so / just smiled.
"'You were chairman of the recep
tion committee of the Thursday p. NJ
club, or III pay for the dinner SHE
said.
"'Never belonged to it, repeated
was getting little tired.
"'Then the Do 1t To-Day club. Tha
is it. Pm twisted. 1t was the Do
To-day.
"'Never heard of the club | said
''She stared at me as if she though
that ] was .ying.
"'Thc fact is. Miss Hook, I've neve,
belonged to any woman's club said
4 once belonged TO a dinner club, bu
there were as many men as women il
it. Prof. Volt, the electrician. wa
president. 1t was quite a prosy, sci
entific sort Of "a"
Ibid you belong to that tougl
clubP she asked.
ethel broke in here to avoid trou
BILE.
"'Oh, how NIGEL Tell me about it,
she said.
"'It was a beastly tough crowd
went on Oleander; that was where
met you. Beastly tough. A lot of th
worst bounGers | ever was NJ
against
81 suppose it must have been j
you began,
"'Were there, / suppose you ar
going to say she CALCULATED
"'No, / wasn't going to say it,
replied. Il always endeavor to avoi
being rude
Really she seemed most unpleas
ant person. There was nothing dew