The Huttig news., 1907-10-12
MISS BLINK khD MRS. EasNkY

The Young Couple had spent the day looking for house that would suit their desires and their Young Couple purse. At length they thought they had found it. It was an old house set in several acres of suburban orchard and grove land, held for spec uative 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 house only two of whose rooms had any connection with 8 furnace.
 Their surprise waSarreater 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, q 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.
 "1 know what you were thinking" :" she said.
 No, 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 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 $S,- cottage and the $25,000 corner prop erty.
 For a time l 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 foors?'
 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- tiOns. 1 always burn mine.'
 "'Shall we go upstairs and see the bedrooms?' 1 asked.
 Miss Blink and Mrs. Blinky both drowned upon the poor woman of the house.
 "I don't think that it is necessary for us to go upstairs, said Miss Blink
 Mrs. Blinky added
 "'We would never consider buying house where the woman of the house'-she didn't say 1ady'-leaves her oii rags like that.
 At the time thought this manifest ation was only bit of odd prejudice ' l determined to stick to Miss Blink and Mrs. Blinky, for I thought that when they did like place they would like it good and hard and be willing to pay a good price.
 But another occasion soon gave me glimmer. We were looking at a f 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 we'll when there came a 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 flee. They wanted to see a mansion where a murder had been committed. Although l explained that the house, though vacant, wasn't yet on the mar ket, they persisted. Then, in the light of my former experiences, I saw what they were.
 ''I said to them:
 "Don't you think that it's rather rough on young, hardworking 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
 |" Tt 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 flying adventures while their strength holds out"