Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-08

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She's more like the biggest and mos.
splendid drcsSmGkeT'S model.
straight. thick eyebrows an inch below
it are black too; so are the short eye
lashes. also thick and straight like a
stiff fringe, but the eyes are gray
gray as glass. though not transparent.
Sometimes they seem almost white.
with just a tiny bead of black for the
pupil. i never saw anything so hard
Except the glass marbles l used to
play with, and they look at most peo-
pie as If something behind them were
doing a mental sum in arithmetic. for
the something's own advantage. They
don't look at mother in that way; no
eyes in the world would dare, but I'm
talking about ordinary people. who are
not tall white arum lilies with the air
of having grown in kings gardens.
Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox's nose is well
shaped and rather large. So is her
mouth. with a thin red line" of lips.
But somehow it's the chin-the fea-
ture you simply take for granted and
hardly remember on most faces-which
dominates the rest. 1t comes rounding
out under her lips, making them seem
to recede. though they don't really.
And it's square, with an effect of the
el-g ~, bs,i, lott
hard material, like marble, or the
same ivory her teeth are made of
Besides all this-as if it weren't
enough-shes widow. one of those
women who look as if they had been
born widows. Anyway, I'm certain
| that Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox can never
have been child.
Sally Woodburn's chin is rather full
| too. / wonder if in spite of her lazy
ways and slow, soft speech she is
| very decided, like her cousin. who is
so much older and bigger and APP
| parently able to make the gentle little
southern relative do as she wills?
Mrs. Ess Kay, terribly glittering
| this evening in gown contrasting
| strongly with our simple things, was
almost too nice to me, saying several
times over how glad she was that l
was going to visit her. At dinner she
| painted word pictures of the good
times" she would give me. and though
| I've never been able to care for her
| and don't bit more now. l began to
be rather excited by her talk, for she
| made things seem so interesting and
| new. Besides, it appears that Sally
WOODBURY. will be at Newport most of
the summer, so / shall have her to fall
back upon.
As for me, 1 was good as gold, and
| Vic threw me approving glances. for
which l was grateful, for l like being
in Vic's good graces. She doesn't
often bother with me much. but when
she does she is so sweet it makes up
for everyt4ing-and she knows that
we'll.
could hardly wait to hear her Eek
plantations" and so / was glad Mrs
Ess Kay and Miss Woodburn were
hypnotized by mother into thinking
they wanted to go early to bed. Moth
er is very clever about such things.
She didn't come again to talk to me
in my room. l suppose she thought il
best to let the new ideas simmer
Anyhow, she sent Thompson away anC
shut the door between Vic's room anc
hers sooner than usual. Presently Vii
slipped quietly in to me, in the new
blue dressing gown which was to have
been mine, only when she saw it fin
ished she wanted it and had foul
inches taken up above the hem.
well, how are you feeling abou
things now?" she asked, sitting dowI
: in front of the mirror with her hair
brush in her hand.
iii tell you after you've told In
: why ought to feel one way more thai
another" said with prudent reserve.
''Then, like a good child, brush m.
hair. wouldn't let Thompson do any
q thing because l knew you'd be dyin
e to have me, and l can talk so beaut
i fully while my hair Is being done.
t makes me wish I were a pussy cat, S
n that could pur."
Y II hate having mine touched by an
: one." said 1.
II well, perhaps should hate it, too
!. II mine were curly and about six inche
e thick and came down to my knees.
4 should be afraid of being pulled
! pieces. There, That's heavenly. We
now / can begin. You know, bab
d this isn't a quite new idea about 20,