The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-27
Between Friends

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H toilet.
X Pale" echoed the young woman in
& tbs hammock Indignantly. That's
WI mild! It's wonder don't 1oor, son.
NH NH green After last evening have lost
sS all confidence in myself 1t is a ter,
'S@ rible thing to be abSent-minded,"
g21I What did you do this timeo" in.
A9f& CURED her caller with what seemed
Hill Ike heartessly joyful expectancy.
IAN 4 don't suppose Dick Cable will
sM ever want to see me again" walled the
xX girl in the hammock. Il believe he IL
Nh running yet, and | don't know that
M blame him. He was coming to cali
NH last night and while, Of course al.
An ways try to look as nice as | can for
M the sake OF my family | confess / took
8 q llttle extra pains dressing for him
aN Anyhow, put on my new yellow gown
IN and worked over my hair for an hour
IN Then it was dinner time and | had IA |
M iinish aiterward-do my hands and
VI dab on some powder.
IN never yet saw man who didn't |
Nj rage at the mention Of face powder or |
NJ VINO was SO dumb he could not imme
pv dlately become eloquent when the sinh
!, lcct was brought up. box of face
: powder to the average man represents
+ theoretically the depths of depravttv
= TO hear him talk
We'll as ! vas saying, | hastily pu.
y on some powder Just as the bell rang
J nave found the most delightfuI new
powder that really doesn't show at an
I II comes in a sort Of cake in bov
z and you take a damp sponge and rnh
on the cake and then over yorr cou,
, fenance and at once Won have an
afsehc complexion, and nobody is tho :
Wiser have worn that powder in
broad daylight ont in the sun ana :
looked Dick straight in the face with
my innocent expression and said biv
views did him credit when he han. .
anGled against making up ones face y
lie has said at such times that he wa
| so glad ! didn't use powder and that u
| looked ten times better than the girls .
who did, d
! DICK acted awfuly queer when !
iioated out here on the veranda in all
my glory. He seemed distracted anf
irlghtfully nervous. At least ho nc
jumped every time he glanced nv &c
way. ! did my best to mt him al III
ease-smlled my brightest and tried "
on MN bFand-new upward look from II
beneath my ashes that had seemed
very effective when practiced ii be vi
lore the mirror. But it didn't seem 10
help matters much.
II was Just at this point that / be. un
gan 70 feel nervous myself, for sud, "
denly | found It difficult to smile ~ 30
alone talk, cold, icy sensation wa we
creeping over my face and the muscles fof
seemed paralyzed 1t was Terrible OF
2rled 10 keep my terror to myself bDt
a. pefseVeFed in the society sman
talk act ! was desperately going over ttlt
All the family history | could recall TO
-fying TO think if any of my relatives tha
lad ever been stricken with PARALYSIS | h
Finally ! reached the point whore an frs
sensation left my face and | copId nnt viii
move my lips. cho
fhen knew that all was over. S
made inarticnate sounds and Dick viii
prung to his feet and dragged me emil
With him. ''' cru,
Nell'' he cried hoarsely what on peri
arth is the matter? You loo,, 60 her
ueer' Speak You aren't going to o
lie, are you? Speak to met wen
"But that was ipet whit and
D. with the viseiike mask that had II
tipped my face. So he nurlod then
to the hall. where there was a rf,,h. orde
men ne got good look at me he Il
aggered into chair and groaDcd \. of C
ouSb everything was over and II, My
vi lost me forever We
II stumbled to a mirror and nooro[ easil
myself. Amid all my misery re- IN y(
7mber having a faint curiosity to SOC ing
st how PARALYSIS had made mo ,aa,. is nc
hen | saw the reelection i,,r fond'
Ieamed and / think I tainted or 1T
for ] came to with III, evide
nily gathered around THROWING MA TO ha
ana tanning and Dick lowering dis BE
ctedly in the middle distance. The time
Sk seemed cracked then. because who
I'D murmur weakly When 70 longe
mbered that hideous stonc-gray Walk
@ that had met my eyes in the mir WISELY
] wanted to faint again or die. domes
Then the family told me what to KIN
done. It seemed that instead If unfort
ngine damp powder on nv racn as Wat
ad supposed. had got hold of the eral d
OF stun ! used to clean nv white to thin
vas shoes. It's gray. Won know III j
you smear il on and put the soiled her 10
's in the sun and in an hour they incom,
magically clean and white. OnI, no dou
'dnt sat in the sun, so the result it to
slightly different course
'f course Dick was glad whom he am inc
d was going 10 live but ho,io. xvii
shock of finding that I was actual. ment?
eak minded enough to powder INV ruptod.
oYerhalanced his JOS. He cot out the
y as soon as he could with an air A We
sntiBg 70 think it over. He mari ~ asko
'om me as one parts from fond Watlin
shed dream. aud that's why I'm lie
Faole. ron dpn suppose | could night y
ince him il was my first and last affair v
Sc. do you9" pIied .
m afraid not. said the girl in never c