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

Don't mention hef. ciieu LIZ 81
with the ncurled ostrich plume In her
hat
Why what has she ever done to |
you?" exclaimed her friend, whose
skirt was so narrow around The bot |
/ tom that it was a mystery how she
managed to walk.
oh, she's pleasant enough said
/ the girl with the uncuried ostrlc1
/ 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 tired
of it. think it is positively cheap
! to boast, don't yop?"
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
let"
"The ideal" flashed the girl with
the uncurled ostrich feather. Il was
simply explaining why the sapphlres
were so much more valuable than or
binary sapphires. | wasn't Dragging
in the least! If YOU thought so ii 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 dc
scrintion of how the trimming went
on the waist to tell about the dress
her cousin brought from Paris and /
couldn't get word in edgewise. Even
if it was from Paris. it wasn't any
, prettier than mine, for my design was
p perfectly exclusive Madame Sheers
brought it over last fan and YOU
couldn't buy any finer goods in the
, shops
, Il won't wear shoddy things that
:, may look Just as wen but that aren't
d 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
how awfully much she spends on her
clothes. Why, when she got her black
hat with the willow plume last fal!
you'd have thought she bought out Il
whole ostrich farm from the fuss she
made! And there | wasn't saying q
thing and al the time | had new
willow plume that was ten inches Ion
ger and an awful lot wider than hers!
: | don't believe in making splurge
3 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
s. bars on her Daughters of the Revolu
\ ton pin! She just said that because
| | was telling her that | was eligible Il
the Daughters on both sides of th'
family! Why, my family tree goei
IN way back and is just as clear! Their
aren't many girls descended from a
many prominent persons as / ami o
course, if you haven't any good ances
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
r. don't care for my profile is aristC
~ cratic. Mr. Gilfoil says the mere lin
of my nose would show | was somt
u body. Yet Madge was trying TO pre-
tend that her profile was pure Greek
d Pure flddlesticksi Not that II is IN
IS, nature TO run down another girl br
" that pretense of hers is simply 70
is ridiculousi
ne "She gets so tiresome at times. I'll
other day she insisted on tellin
ne about her summer in the Catskil
of when had started tn show my pi
ay lures of the Mississippi river and sh
repeated over and over again that 81
M visited the most fashionable cam
Sc there and that the other people wei
IS all milioraires or something, 81
inn can talk; but | don't believe her. an
anyhow every one knows that hous
boat trip | took was the most uniqt
thing of its kind ever heard of in tn
rcgioni
nil. I'D like TO know If she had thrr
men among her millionaires who we
as devoted TO her as John Fairchi
and Stanley Williams, and Lem Bar
well were to me? Why. they we
a standing joke to all the rest! If OF
ia wasn't hanging over me the other ty
ITO were and they just racked their brai
on to get ahead of one another It u
en-, dreadfully hard 10 keep peace amoi
du- them. There certainly are drawbac
rn- to being the most popular girl in
it'll crowd. 1t Just takes a little clcv,
ms ness. that's all.
rs why. Mrs. Smith-the deaf {
Blu woman, you know. who has catarac
its too-she said she never saw a pers
ire with more tact than had She liz
my me because | always selected her
IS. a chaperon when we took exCursio
ally on shore. I always believe in bel
.ca- kind TO the afflicted
forl What really made me see Madge
my her tru- colors was her saying s
IN ! ,,,tIl marry Harnl1 Ian-ina If sh