Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-09-14
MISS BLINK and
MRS. BLINkY

DAY lOOklnS lot mousse tldI Wuulu
suit their desires and their Young
Couple purse. At length they thought
they had found it. 1t was an old house
set 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
Young Couple to spend an entire year
in a house only two of whose rooms
had any connection with 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-alsc
women-who were waiting there.
Really, Miss Blink and Mrs
Blinky," she had said, Il don't think
that have anything today that would
suit you or warrant my spending
further time with YOU"
After Miss Blink and Mrs. Blinky
had gone the Young Couple looked at
the agent with very large eyes.
The young woman smiled.
L know what you were 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. Blinky, the one an OLD
maid and the other a widow, turn W
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
1t doesn't seem to matter to them
whether the house is large or small;
they are equally interested in the S..
cottage and the $4,000 corner prop
erty.
For time 1 thought they were
merely buyers in earnest who were
very hard to suit They showed the
keenest interest in all details. At one
place l remember Mrs. Blinky asked:
Where do you keep the rags that
you have used to oil the ioors?"
"The woman opened closet door.
There she said.
"I thought So Mrs. Blinky said
"They ought to be burned and not left
around to start spontaneous combus.
tons 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.
81 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 a bit of odd prejudice
l determined to stick to Miss Blink
and Mrs. Blinky, for l thought that
when they did like place they would
like it 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 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
flee. They wanted to see a mansion
where 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, l saw what
they were.
Il said to them:
Don't you think that it's rather
rough on a young, Woodworking WON.
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
1T is amusing Mrs. Blinky ad.
mitted.
yet, you see, they came again to.
day"
Yes, and I suppose they will ever.
lastingly keep up such curiosity-satis.
flying adventures while their strength
holds out"