Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-02-25
HER FIRST DIAMOND RING.
. Girls Mmneuvers TO Ataraet Notice
Graphically Described by
Grabbed Bachelor.

SAY" inquired the common ornefy
bachelor. with the grabbed look, ac-
cording to the Washington Post, did
you ever take a good, long peek at
the funny moves of young woman
who's engaged in packing around
with her the first honest-and-trnly
diamond ring Of her young life? II
you haven't, you've missed seeing the
eraftiest bit of boosting Of an mani
mate object that ever came of the
reel. The ground-and-lofties that she
will try to get away with in order 10
fetch her karat or so Of alum to the
front and keep it under the spotlight
OF publicity ought to be hard enough
work to be worth 1925 day any
where.
when she gets aboard street
car tire hand on which the piece of
cracked ice is displayed is purposely
left ungloved The mitt drapes the
other fin all right, but the one with
the piece of carbon she keeps bare
even if the temperature is 312 below
centigrade zero. The amount of
fnger-to-the-lip nursing that she
puts in with the finger holding the
giggerino is a lot. She wants to be
dead sure that the people sitting on
the other side of the car don't lose
cut on a few glimpses of the scrap Of
ammonia bottle. Even if the ring is
on the third finger, she muses. that
way.
The fnger-to-lip stuff looks I'M
natural and foolish enough on the
part of a grown person, even when
the index finger of the hand l. used
for the purpose, but when the girl
with her first shiny rock claps the
third finger of her hand, the one con-
tanning the bum crystal into her
facial orifice and begins to muse in
public, it's enough TO make an ossi
fed man recite Asleep at the Switch.
And the wisps of side hair that get |
into her way as she sits there in the |
car, and that have got to be pushed /
back under her veil, and that can 4
only be SO pushed back by the EN-
ployment of that one solitary digit /
that is encireled by the piece Of gilt
wire holding the initial sparkling
pebble of her young life-well, there
sure are lot of those wisps.
There are not half so many Of
EN-, however, as there are wisps Of
ler back hair that need to be tucked
INTO the rear bunch Of hemp, when
,he goes to the theater and snags out
! seat down in front The way her
lair keeps falling down in your
mind, Alwyn, in the back when she's
rot a forward seat at the show. is
hawble; just hawble. She
'egins 70 weave that rear fax with
he one finger that seems to be of
my use to her-the one that wears
he glitterer-just as soon as she
Tops into her seat and takes off her
kypiece, and from then on right on
o the windup of the show, she's got
Ter elbow in the air about all the
line, patting and poking at that hind
air with the workable digit
"She don't want to take even 400
o chance that anybody sitting even
feet back of her won't get one lit
lie pipe-off at that sinner; anyway.
nd, apparently imbued with an idea
hat the people on the stage haven't
yer seen one o those holiday spark
It's before, she frequently passes the
Important hand in front of her ewes.
retending to rub them in a tired
ind of way. She's a plugger and a
ress agent for that ein-carat
owider, all right, the girl with the .
rst consecutive diamond of her life
i'd If the hand that carries it isn't
lie tiredest part Of her when she
Us her head on her pillow at night
len it's back to The bituminous for
e and III deserve it."