Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-24
SHE never
BOASTS

with the uncuried ostrich plume In her
hat.
Why. what has she ever done to
you?" exclaimed her friend. whose
skirt was 50 narrow around the bot.
tom that ii was mystery how she
managed to walk.
oh. she's pleasant CROUCH said
the gin with the uncurlel ostrich
feather. Only | cant bear a person
who Is always boasiing, Why. to hear
Madg" talk you'd think nobody else
had ever gone anywhere or seen any.
thing or owned anything. get SO tired
OF 1t. think it is positively cheap
to boast, don't you?'
Il should say So" agreed the girl
with the narrow skirt. That's the
reason | wondered why you talked so
much about your new sapphire brace
let"
The idea" flashed the sii1 with
simply explaining why the sapph!res
were so much more valuable than or
binary sapphires. wasn't Dragging
in the least II you thought SO II was
only because you were cnvious'
There's a difference! You ought to
have heard Madge yesterday! started
to tell her about my new evening
gown and she broke right into my de-
scription of how the trimming went
on the waist to tell about the dress
her cousin brought from Paris and
couldn't get word in edgcwise. Even
if II was from Paris. it wasn't any
pretlier than mine. for my design was
perfectly exclusive. Madame Sheers
brought II over last fall and you
couldn't buy any finer goods in the
shops. %.
Il won't wear shpddy things that
may look Just as wen but that aren't
the real things. Everybody knows
that's what Madge does. She gets
credit for having just as manv things
as have when mine really cost twice
as much. Then she's always telling
how awfully much she spends on her
clothes Why. when she got her black
hat with the willow plume last fall
you'd have thought she d bought out a
whole ostrich farm from the fuss she
made, And there | wasn't saying a
thing and all the time l had a new
willow plume that was ten inches lon
ger and an awful lot wider than hers,
don't believe in making splurge
over your possessions
Il don't believe she had three ances-
tors who were officers n the revolu-
ton. so that she is entitled to three
bars on her Daughters Of the Revolu.
ton pin. She just said tha, because
was telling her that | was eligible to
the Daughters On both sides OF the
family! Why. my family tree goes
way back and is just as clear, There
aren't many girls descended from as
many prominent persons as ] am! OF
course. if you haven't any good arces-
tors ii isn't your fault and you aren't
exactly to blame, but | always think
blood will tell
Il may not be terribly pretty, but
cont care. for my profile is aristo-
cratic. Mr.. Gilfoil says the mere line
of my nose would show l was some
=
tend that her profile was pure Greek,
Pure fiddlesticks, Not that 1t is my
nature to run down another girl, but
that prctense of hers is simply too
ridiculous.
She gets so tiresome al times. The
ether day sh: insisted OF telling
about her summer in the Catskills
when | had started to show nv mic.
lures OF the Mississippi river and she
repeated ov"r and over again that she
visited the most fashiOabale camp
there and that the other people were
AL milliOrairsS or somcthirc' She
can talk: hut | don't believe her, and
anyhow every one knows that house
beat trip took was the most UNIQUE
thing of its kind ever heard of in this
region.
I'D like to know if she lad three
men among her m;llionaires who were
as devoted to her as John FairchiJd
and Stanley Williams, and Lem Bard.
well were 10 me: Why, they were
a standing joke to all the res! n one
wasn't ha- ging over me the other two
were and they just racked their brains
10 get ahead Of one another: II was
dreadfnlly hard to keep peace among
them. Their" certainly are drawbacks
to being ID" most popular girl in a
crowd. II Just takes little clever.
ness. that's all
VIII. Mrs. SHith-'hc deaf old
woman. you know. who has catarac,s-
too-shc said she nc-er saw a person
with more tact than ! had, She liked
no because I always selected her for
a chaperon when We took excursions
on shore. I always believe in being
kind 10 the afflicted
What really made ne 500 Nadcc in
be- firm, cpiors vaS bcr ..&.-