The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-18
TIE EVENING STOR Y


His Stupid way
The girl with the paper bag o.
chocolates and her friend with the
tan low shoes ran for the front seat III
the grip car and got it.
Did you see Mr.. Simpson just cross
ing the street," gasped the glrl WIN
the tan shoes as she settled into the
seat. 81 think he's just hne! anu
he has on the stunningest suit!
The girl with the chocolates ele-
waited her chin and smoothed nsI
jacket with deliberation when
so ?" she asked politely Well every
one has her own notions, of course.
Why" shrieked the girl with tan
shoes, you were raving over MIN Int
last time I saw you! what's nap
pened. You thought he was the love
lest
I'm sure Z was never SO foolishi'
protested the girl with the chocolates
He is very ordinary young man.
When I think of the time I wasted on
simpson is far from being what ne
appears to be, can tell you
"whadhedo?" aueried her friend.
who had just taken a piece OF eahos
from the bag
"1f there is one thing I pride my
self on it is that I don't gossip ana
try to be absolutely fair to every one
You know that. don't you, Name
"Oh, my, yesi
And 1 think it is just dreadful for
a girl to say hateful things about the
other girls to keep the men she knows
from liking them. I believe in SUCK
ing up for my friends no matter II 1
do see them de0eiving folks into think
ing they are angelic and lovely when
they're not. I think a man admires a
girl all the more if he sees she IS
sweet dispositiOned toward others ana
Ffr m
care about THAI. Well, the girls all
seemed to lose their heads over that
Simpson man just because he was tall
and had broad shoulders. / knew ne
must be tired of all their little Jesi-
ousies and fights to cut out each other,
| so resolved to be different. When ne
remarked one day that Louise had the
most beautiful complexion he nad
ever seen, what did I do2 Disagree
with him? 1 should say mott said
I thought so, too. and that it was eX-
quisite and he had good judgment /
even told him her skin was SO delicate
( that she freckled dreadfully and had
to use a lotion that made her face
nearly peel off to get rid of them and
! of course she had to put on cold
cream and powder and a little rouge
to hide the ravages that resulted pul
| that nobody would ever dream she
used cosmetics if they weren't told 1
praised her all I cOuld-said she was
I SO aTIlSLlC That 4uahC-up NeA5 II
tier than other girls natural beauty.
/ I couldn't have done any more, could
/ II"
''Well, perhaps not acquiesced her
| friend, meditatively.
''Then when he mentioned Grace and
said she was such a Gibson-hke girl. /
/ Immediately said I often noticed that
I told him she deserved to nave g
/ beautiful figure, for she worked hard
/ enough to get it=that she walked ten
miles every day and did nothing much
| besides except her gymnastic exercises,
because if she stopped exercising for a
week she took on fat at tr1ghGful
rate. I didn't forget to mention that
| before she began her severe course OF
/ training she weighed over zoo pounds
/ and hadn't any waist at all told him
fhow she used to cry when we made
/ fun OF her / mentioned that she TOOK
/ after her mothers family and they are
all perfect mountains. I said I was
! truly sorry for her. I wanted him to
see that I had sympathetic nature
HE couldn't avoid seeing it,, de-
clared her friend
Even when he spoke admiringly of
Marion and said she was always so
calm and lovely and restful did not
/ get jealous. OF course, a man never
| goes below the surface and he hadn't
any idea that Marion is the LATEST
| creature going and lets her mother
/ slave while she won't lift finger. I
said that indeed she was calm and
/ lovely. that it was beautiful to find a
| person so oblivious to the cares Of daily
life and able to rise above them and
not be worried at the thought Of 9TH
ers' toiling around her and doing the
thing she ought to do. I said it was
/ Just pure self sa crifice which had made
Marion let her mother sit up nights
sewing for her because she knew how
she loved to do it. I'd like to know
| what else I could have said
$50 should l." said her friend.
"And then, what do you think? IN
stead of approaching it I overheard
/ that Simpson man tell some one else
4 that he'd never in his life met a girl
who could say as many mean things
about other girls in five minutes as
could! I just can't get over it The
hateful thfngt"
''Well, I don't wonder" said the girl
with tan shoes.-Chicago News.