The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-03-08
SHE: never
BOASTS

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hat.
why, what has she ever done to
you?" exclaimed her friend, whose
skirt was so narrow around the Dot
/ tom that it was mystery how she
/ managed to walk.
"Oh. she's pleasant enough, SAID
/ the girl with the uncuried ostflcA
/ feather only | can't bear a person
who is always Boosting, Why to hear
Madge talk you'd think nobody else
had ever gone anywhere or seen any,
thing or owned anything. | get so urea
of it. think it is positively cheap
} to boast. don't yor?"
81 should say SOL agreed the girl
with the narrow skirt. That's the
reason | wondered why you talked so
much about your new sapphire brace
| lett"
THE ideal" flashed the girl with
the uncurled ostrich feather. Il was
simply explaining why the sapphires
were so much more valuable than or
binary sap2hires. wasn't Dragging
in the least! If you thought so 1t was
only because you were envious!
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
f her cousin brought from Paris and /
couldn't get word in edgeWise. Even
, if il was from Paris. it wasn't any
prettier than mine, for my design was
:. perfectly exclusive Madame Sheers
brought it over last fall and you
couldn't buy any finer goods in the
p shops.
o Il won't wear shoddy things that
:. may look just as well but that arcni
o the real things, Everybody knows
that's what Madge does. She gets
@ credit for having just as many things
q as | have. when mine really cost twice
as much. Then she's always telling
g how awfuly much she spends on hei
clothes! Why, when she got her BLACK
. hat with the willow plume last fal
you'd have thought she bought out {
whole ostrich farm from the fuss she
made! And there | wasn't saying ;
= thing and all the time had new
3, willow plume that was ten inches lon
g ger and an awful lot wider than hers
= don't believe in making a spurg'
s. over your possessions!
y 81 don't believe she had three ances
tors who were officers N the revolu
ton. so that she Is entitled TO tire
- bars on her Daughters of the Revolu
" ton pin! She just said that becaus
| was telling her that | was eligible Z
the Daughters on both sides of tn
family, Why, my family tree goe
IN way back and is just as clear! Their
aren't many girls descended from a
many prominent persons as ! ami {
course, if YOU haven't any good ance
tors it isn't your fault and you aren
exactly to blame, but | always thin
blood will tell.
al 81 may not be terribly pretty, but
lr- don't care, for my profile is artist
mr. cratic. Mr. Gilfoil says the mere lii
of my nose would show | was som
'' body. Yet Madge was trying to pr
tend that her profile was pure Greel
ed Pure fddesticksl Not that It is n
IS, nature to run down another girl, b
~ that pretense of hers is simply e
is ridiculous!
he "She gets so tiresome at times. II
other day she insisted on tellil
he about her summer in the Catskil
of when | had started tn show my ri
ay lures Of the Mississippi river and ST
repeated over and over again that 81
M visited the most fashionable can
Use there and that the other people We
es- all miilioraires or something, S
i'm can talk; but | don't believe her. al
ANYHOW every one knows that hou.
boat trip took was the most uniq
thing Of its kind ever heard of in Il
rcgion'
all I'D like to know If she had thr
men among her millionaires who WI
as devoted to her as John Fairch
and Stanley Williams, and Lem Ba
well were to me? Why. they We
a standing joke to all the rest! II G
ma wasn't hanging over me the/ Ner {
Iiro were and they just racked lbra
bA TO get dQtdu Ol but dub4 ~
en-. dreadfully hard to keep amc
du- them. There certainly y ybat
,rn- to being the most pom in
nth crowd. 1t just takes 2 ! clcy
ons ness, that's all.
ers why, Mrs. Smith-tbe deaf
Blu woman, you know. who has cataral
its too-she said she never saw a per
ire with more tact than had, She III
any me because l always selected her
US. a chaperon when we took excursi
adv on shore. I always believe in be
AGA kind 10 the afflicted.
f0ri What really made me see Madg,
any her trn- colors was her saving
in could marry Harold Lansing if 81
Of ONLY ssv the word Harold doe
lent care two straws about herr He Ii
eek, 2 girl with more brainsi Why |