The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-09-24


aay looking for a house that would
suit their desires and their Young
Couple purse. AT length they thought
they had found IT, II was an old house
get In several acres Of suburban
orchard and grove land, held for spec
ulative hope while the house itself
was rented. But the young woman real
estate agent who had accompanied
them had surprised them by her
truth and candor when she had show
ed how impossible It was for even a
Young Couple to spend an entire year
In a house only two of whose rooms
had any connection with a furnace.
Their surprise was greater, however,
when upon their return to the young
woman's office they saw her abrupt
treatment Of two possible clients-also
women-whO we're waiting there.
Really, Miss Blink and Mrs.
Blinky.s she had said. Il don't think
that have anything today that would
suit you or warrant my spending
Turther time with you.
After Miss Blink and Mrs. Blinly
had gone the Young Couple looked at
the agent with very large eyes.
The young woman smiled
Il know what you we're thinking"
she said
mo, we weren't said the Young
Couple.
But it's like this" resumed the
young woman. Every spring Miss
Blink and Mrs. Blinhy, the one an old.
maid and the other widow, turn up
regularly at all Of the real estate Of
fees. They are taken-that is, they
were In the beginning-to all Of the
places on our books that are on sale.
It doesn't seem to matter to them
whether the house is large or small;
they are equally interested in the sS..
cottage and the $4,000 corner prop
erty.
For time ! thought they were
merely buyers in earnest who were
very hard to suit They showed the
keenest interest in all details. At one
place remember Mrs. Blinky asked:
Where do you keep the rags that
you have used TO oil the fioors?"
The woman opened d closet door.
There she said.
." 4 thought so, Mrs Blinby said.
"They ought to be burned and not left
around to start spontaneous combus-
tions | always burn mine
Shall we go upstairs and see the
bedrooms?' asked.
Miss Blink and Mrs. Blinky both
frowned upon the poor woman Of the
house.
! don't think that it is necessary
for us to go upstairs, said Miss Blink.
Mrs. Blinky added:
1--WE would never consider buying
a house where the woman OF the
house'-she didn't say lady leaves
her oil rags like that
"At the time / thought this manifest
alton was only bit of odd prejudice.
determined to stick to Miss Blink
and Mrs. Blinly, for | thought that
when they did like place they would
like 1t good and hard and be willing to
pay good price.
But another occasion soon gave me
a glimmer. We were looking at a
house much too pretentious for the
people who were living In it, who were
wild to sell The woman came down
and went with us through it. Every
thing seemed to be going well when
there came howl from a small de.
serted baby on the upper floor.
Mrs. Blinky's maternal instinct as
serted itself,
Young woman, said she, get back
to that baby. You are anxious to sell
your house, but you shouldn't neglect
your small duty upstairs.
Some days later Miss Blink and
Mrs. Blinky again appeared in my Of
fee. They wanted to see a mansion
where a murder had been committed
Although ] explained that the house.
though vacant wasn't yet on the mar
ket. they persisted. Then, in the light
of my former experiences. / saw what
they were.
Il said to them:
Don't you think that It's rather
rough on young, hard-worlEing wom-
an to take up her time and effort with
something that seems to constitute
your sole amusement in life? You
know that neither Of you wants to
buy; that you are merely amusing
yourselves
"It is amusing, Mrs. Blinky adj
mitted
yet. You see, they came again to-
day"
Yes. and / suppose they viii ever
lastingly keep up such euriosity-satis-
flying adventures while their strength
holds out.
Henry's Answer.