Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1909-03-03
SHE never
BOASTS

why, what has she ever done tC
your" 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 uncurled ostrich
feather. only | can't bear person
who is always boasting! 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 your"
II should say SOL" agreed the girl
with the narrow skirt. That's the
reason wondered why you talked SO
much about your new sapphiss brace
lett"
1.-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 sapphires. 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
her cousin brought from Paris and
couldn't get word in edgewise. Even
II 1t was from Paris, it wasn't any
prettier than mine, for my design was
perfectly exclusive. Madame Sheers
brought 1t over last fall and you
couldn't buy any fher goods in the
shops.
Il won't wear shoddy things that
may, look Just as we'll but that aren't
the real things. Everybody knows
that's what Madge does! She gets
credit for having just as many things
as l 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
whole ostrich farm from the fuss she
made! And there I wasn't saying a
thing and all the time | had a new
willow plume that was ten inches lon.
ger and an awful lot wider than hers!
l don't believe in making a splurge
over your possessions!
i don't believe she had three ances-
tors who were officers N the reyolu-
ton, so that she is entitled to three
bars on her Daughters of the Revolu.
ton pin! She just said that 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 cleaf! There
aren't many girls descended from as
many promin emit persons as | ami OF
course, If you haven't any good ances-
tors 1t isn't your fault and you aren't
exactly to blame, but | always think
blood will tell.
Il may not be terribly pretty, but |
don't care, for my profile is aristo.
cratic. Mr.. Gilfoil says the mere line
OF my nose would show l was some
body. Yet Madge was trying to pre-
tend that her profile was pure Greek!
Pure fiddlestieks! Not that it is my
nature to run down another girl. but
that pretense of hers is simply too
She gets so tiresome at times. The
other day she insisted OF telling
about her summer in the Catskills
when | had started to show nv pic.
lures of the Mississippi river and she
repeated over and over again that she
visited the most fashionable camp
there and that the other people were
al millioraires or somethingi She
can talk; but | don't believe her, and
anyhow every one knows that house.
boat trip | took was the most unioue
thing of its kind ever heard of in this
region!
I'D like to know If she had three
men among her millionaires who were
Is devoted to her as John Faircbiid
and Stanley Williams, and Lem Bard
well were to me? Why, they were
standing joke to all the rest! If ono
wasn't hanging over me the other two
we're and they just racked their brains
o get ahead of one aNother! 1t was
ireadfully hard to keep peace among
mem. There certainly are drawbacks
o being the most popular girl in >
crowd. It just takes a little clever.
less, that's all.
Why, Mrs. Smith-the deaf old
woman, you know, who has cataracts
oo--she said she never saw a nerso,,
With more tact than had! She liked
ne because | always selected her for
chaperon when we took excursions
N shore | always believe in beinp
lind to the afflicted.
What really made me see Madpa il
Ter true colors was her saving she
:ould marry Harold Lansing if she'd
My say the word. Harold doesn,t
are two straws about her! He HE,
! girl with more brainsi WHY hen,
ak to me by the hour. He saws II a.
uch a~relief after the inane chatter
4 the others. He wouldn't think or
Iadge seriously for a second
THAT girl thinks she is irresistible,
iris who really have lot of attentio,,