Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-10-01
The Girl Who Fitted Into Things.

When everybody else's hair was blow
ing and almost every woman looked a
fright She came out on deck as trig
and natty as if on her own piazza at
home.
Her hair was not snarling all about
her face 1t was brushed softly back be
meath trim yachting cap and coied
tightly on her neck secure from ali deprc-
dations Of the sea wind
Other women clutched the brims OF
their fancifu steamer hats. and shut
their eyes to escape the swapping of their
wells and looked clean spun out and mis-
cradle in their unavailng efforts to look
neat. Their skirts blew wildly, and they
shiyered.
Her skirts didn't bnow. They were
short, and of smart-lookin" gray wool.
They didn't touch deck. and they didn't
cavort above her Sh0ctOps. They weru [
built for show, but for service, and they
served well.
So did her shoes Wasn't it amazing
that 50 many of the other women should
20 lettering about the deck in high
hceled. light-col0red shoes? But they did.
And YOU should have seen their cOntOr-
tiuns. their pitiable gymnastics and their
utter hclplessness when The ship rolled.
That day there came fogs and clammy
weneSs, too! Dear me. didn't those pref
ty little useless shoes get properly
spoiled, though:
All the time, through wet and dry.
the Girl Who Fitted Into Things trod
decks with 4 long. steady, SWining stride.
her feet shod in lowheeled. high shoes,
trim and serviceable. and just the thing
for the unsteadiness and uncertainties OF
watcry travel.
Sometimes you saw her in white
linen blouse: and sometimes there was
Il crimson sweater snugly buttoned
over the blouse; and sometimes the Grim
son merely showed in flashes beneath a
gray wool jacket But you never saw
her blue and shivering nor combating
with a multitude of winding, blowing.
hampering wraps. At night when il
was very cold, she wound a knitted scarf
about her head, and put on Il heavy golf
cape with high collar.
For every occasion she had just the
right thing, and into every circumstance
she fitted perfectly.
She came TO meals glowing With quiet
energy. and favored were those who had
seats near her. In some indetinable way
she led the conversation to bright topics.
and held il there with brilliant sweet
DeSS-whch means that cutting Wit and
bitter sarcasm were not the tactics used.
Whether she walked. talked. read. told
stories played or sang which she never.
never did. unless most urgently pressed
people liked to he near her ia look M
Der. And the same thought invariably
came into everyb"!y'- .3ja'.. How per.
fcctly She fits
Yes. that was the secret of it. Shn
fitted herself into anything. everything.
She made "a harmony. never a discord.
Her clothes her voice. her speech, her
manner. her attitudes, her whole per
Souality were i'm tune. and She keyed
them To fit her environment.
Now. the point of this story Is that
Size was really homely girl. Without
the charm 81 her personality she wouid
have been Just tall. thin. rather
"gawky" young woman, with thin lips.
"a long nose. Shrewd blue eyes and more
frccklcs than beauty standards allow.
But because she knew how 70 make
the most Of herself and because she had
learned the mysterious art of hitting
herself to any occasion. She was actual
ly the most charming. the most watched
and the most SonGht-af'er sIri on that
vessel
And uohoIy llamcd the tail. cookbook
.a- captaiu for noWg= lowest over her
hand at the GaaEoay. when il WAS gen
orally supposed that he was thanking
Her personally for having deigucd o. SHi}
In his yc~-el.-P Philadelphia Evening
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