The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-04-30


when he said worth alone makes the |
man; but, if alive to-day would he
dare say that worth alone makes the |
woman. Every successful business
man realizes that clothes enter largely |
into the successes and failures OF to
day. and dress accordingly. Women
long ago learned this truth and have
little respect for Polonious and his
ante-date philosophy.
Recently some very expensive and
lavishly furnished apartments were
erected in a well-known western city
Two ladies, eminently respectable and
possessed Of means. being in that
neighborhood, decided to call and in
vestigate. Unfortunately they had
been on a long constitutional through
the parks and wore plain costumes,
including short skirts. They walked
brusouely up to the building and en-
tered the agents Office. That indi-
yidual was absent. but his understudy,
a young male thing, with an inflated
idea Of his own responsibility, eyed
them critically and with an oyerbear-
ing manner endeavored to impress
them with the enormous rentals
placed on the apartments. It was
more evident than pleasing to the Wis
itors that they were being sized up"
as entirely too "cheap" to be worthy
Of consideration. Much disgusted
and more indignant, they withdrew
to the street.
It was Byron who said:
asweet is Revenge-especially to wo-
men"
The very next day there drove up
TO the building a handsome equipage,
from which alighted two fashionably
dressed women. The sunlight sparkled
on their Jewels and they bore them
selves with the unmistakable sir Of
good breeding and plenty. The agent,
1 smirking and smiling, begged to show
the ladies the apartments, but they
insisted. strangely, on the assistant be-
ing their escort That individual.
fawning and bowling and feeling much
elated at their marked preference,
led the way.
Then began one Of the most strenu-
Gus experiences of a whipper-snapper
From apartment to apartment they
urged him, up stairs and down stairs,
through a modern city apartment Of
miles Of stairway. At each landing
they found many grievous faults
with the inferiority of the building
| They were exceptionally outspoken in
their criticisms and even took occa-
sion to sink the shaft of venom into
the humiliated assistant.
AT last, after having taken almost
two hours Of the young mans time, he
was not over-politely informed they
wouldn't think Of living in such a
shoddy, unpretentious and mediocre
structure.
Have you nothing better to show
us? Something worth, say, two or
three times as much and several
times nicer arranged and more ele-
gantly equipped?' they demanded. Il
See We have been misled by the adver.
tisment. but yesterday when we were
here the prospects seemed better for
some really modern and acceptable
fats"
About this time the truth began to
dawn in the much-muddled mind of
the whippersnapper, but before he
could assume a retaliating air, the
ladies'. their noses elevated and their
faces locked with disdainful rigidity,
swept grandly out past the bewildered
agent to their carriage.
"Homel' they cried in chorus.
They had been avenged.
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The Sure Enough Charm.
Hunt up the fishlines and sort out the
hooks;
The suckers are running the rifles Of
Get down the fishpoles and match them
Unwind the ss'tifingers and test them for
Dig with a pitch-fork out back Of the
where angleworms flourish in rich
Then lie away. angler. to Hsherman''
And always remember to SPIT on
S6 * IA
There's a heap OF difference in folks
One Of our neighbors thinks the city
just dreadful, and too dirty for human
habitat. She makes herself miserable
brooding over the disadvantages of
residence in such a Sodom. Another
neighbor is happy and sings at hei
work "Oh, I guess there's cleaner
places, but somehow just can't hell
being happyn' We like to visit will
the sunshiny woman, but we cring'
every time we hear our wife announce
the intended visit of the other. Fun
ny, isn't it?
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