The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-05-20
Living Up to
One $ Features

| The girl with the inquiring nose
took good look at her profile. sur
mounted by new hat. in the mirror
with the aid Of handglass. Then she
sat down suddenly and despairingly.
TITS no USE" she said to her best
friend, who in the role Of millinery ad-
wiser, sat at critical distance and
and gazed at her. TITS never been
any use since my nos decided to take
after mammals family and turn up
instead OF papa's family and keep to
the straight and narrow way.
"You don't know how terribly hard
II has always been for me, Belinda, to
| live up to my features. Now. what
kind OF disposition should you say
| goes with a nose like mine?"
"Flippancy. irrelevancy, firta 'ious-
ness. gayety. insouciance," said her
| friend, checking off each unredeeming
fault on her fingers Exactly, and
| do you think any of them fits ne?
Not at all. They only fit my nos 4 I
tell you truly, Belinda, I've ney II
dared be myself for one moment On
eSIOuit Va All NY JtdIHibS
to be literary has been nipped by ray
nose. Whoever saw literary per3ea
with a turn-up nose? was dylng II
be musical and practiced furiously. w
Ill one day / found out, glancing up
at myself in mirror opposite while [
was playing a Chopin nocturne that
my nose struck a false note There
was nothing to do but give up my
music after that.
The only thing ! am fit for Is to
keep a tea room, and even then
don't believe my patrons could be
hoodwinked into the belief that my
nose was financially sound To &C
complish anything worth while in this
life, Belinda, you must first have the
features for IT,
1.-THE worst part OF IT nll," she add
ed, taking off the offending hat and
poking It into the bandboX, rs that
you must dress for the part Your
features call upon you to play. Here
| am. with a sober sedate mushroom
hat, of the most conservative order
on my hands, and don't dare put it
on my head. look like guy in IT,
Internally am sober, sedatc, and con
sentative. Externally | am fippant,
pert and saucy The internal quail
ties don't count in the purchase of
headgear. You must buy hats TO match
the externals. Here, try it on your
self, Belinda 1t looks charming on
you. Why don't you buy it?"
because / am so tired OF it," muir
INJURED her friend,
Tired OF it? Why it's brand new.
It's only just come. What are you
talking about?'
Tired of that style. explained Be
linda YEARLY. "All my life I've had
to wear that style. | long for some
thing that turns up and turns down in
an irresponsible sort OF way; some
thing-something saucy, in fact"
YOU" exclaimed her friend why,
Belinda, what's come over your" 81, too.
am beset by my features" confessed
Belinda. 81 can't get away from them.
My outer husk shows me a reposeful
creature of broodng serenity | am
at heart positively rakish There's a
Bohemian streak in me one yard wide.
OF course you don't believe it OF me.
and I've never confessed il before
to any one, but I'm fairly bubbing
over with the spirit of adventure. |
long 70 do and say outrageous things,
TO defy the community, and set ii by
the ears. The primrose path beckons
me, and Pans pipes lure me on"
And yet there's no more sober an
individual among my friends than
you cried her astounded chum.
Yes. ! know" Belinda said def
antly, and there's no one who suf-
tcrs more from represseL individual
lty than l. We are both overruled by
a set of features which were not in
tended for us at all We are both liv-
ing under assumed personalities, as
sumed purely to back our features.
You wish TO be literary with an up
turned nose, and |, with a nose that
rivals Dante's and the thin lips Of Cor
nelia, mother of the Gracchi, am bac-
chanalian at heart. If we could only
change temperaments; but we can't
My FRIENDS would be as Mortified as
yours"
Providence must certainly have
been absent-minded when we were Gre
ated," said the sirl with the inquiring
nose sadly.
Yes" agreed Belinda. land sup
pose Pernard Shaw understood US a
little when he said: DO unto others as
you would have them do unto You
Their tastes may not be the same
You can't judge person by his fnat-
ures. What are I'VE going to do about
it,"
Lets have tea" said her friend III
cidly. Maybe that will clear our
brains and help us decide on some
plan of action that will only startle the
world by degrees
Youthful japanese Horseman,
Tour Tateishi, IA years old. son Of a