The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-09-19
MISS BLINK And
MRS. BLlNKY

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suit their desires and their Young
Couple purse. At length they thought
they had found II. 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 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 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.
Il 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 widow, turn up
regularly at all of the real estate of.
ices. They are taken-that is, they
were in the beglnning-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 | 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 closet door.
There she said
=" L 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. Blnky both |
frowned upon the poor woman of the |
house.
1 don't think that it is necessary
for us to go upstairs, said Miss Blink
Mrs. Bllnky added:
We would never consider buying
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. Blinky, for | thought that
when they did like a place they would
like 1t good and hard and be willing tc
pay good price,
But another occasion soon gave me
a glimmer We were looking at
house much too pretentious for the
people who We're living in it, who were
wild to sell, The woman came dowr
and went with us through it, Every
thing seemed to be going well wher
here came howl from a small de
serted baby on the upper floor.
Mrs. Blinkys maternal instinct as
serted itself
Young woman said She get bach
to that baby. You are anxious to sci
your house. but you shouldn't neglect
your small duty upstairs.
Some days later Miss Blink anc
Mrs. Blinky again appeared in my of
ice. They wanted to see a mansion
where murder had been committed
Although | explained that the house
hough vacant, wasn't yet on the mar
iet. they persisted. Then, in the light
If my former experiences. saw what
hey were.
Il said to them:
Don't you think that it's rather
ough on young, Woodworking won
IN to take up her time and effort with
that seems to constitute
our sole amusement in life? Yor {
Jnow that neither of you wants rc
'uy; that you are merely AMUSING
ourselves
1t is amusing Mrs. Blinky ad /;
nitted.
Yet you see, they came again to I
lay"
Yes. and ! suppose they will ever {
astingiy keep up such curiosity-satis
wing adventures while their strength
olds out" ,
Nenry's Answer. '