The Huttig news., 1909-04-10
SHE: NEVER !
 BOAS TS

| with the uncurled ostrich plume in her 1 hat.
 Why what has she over done to | you?' exclaimed her friend. whose l skirt was so narrow around the bot om that it was mystery how she managed to walk.
 Oh, she's pleasant enough" said the girl with the uncured ostrich feather. Only l can't bear person who is always boasting. Why to hear | Madge talk you'd think nobody else i had ever gore anywhere or seen any thing or owned anything. 1 get so tired of it! think it is positively cheap to beast, don't you2"
 T should say so," agreed the girl with the narrow skirt. That's the reason l wondered why you talked so much about your new sapphire brace eti"
 The ideal flashed the girl with the uncurled ostrich feather T was simply explaining why the sapphires ere SC much more valuable than or aiaary sapphires I wasn't bragging the least, If you thought so it was only because you were envious, there's difference, You ought to ave heard Madge yesterday, l started | to tell her about my new evening gown and she broke right into my de. scrirtioa of how the trimming went or the waist to tell about the dress her cousin brought from Paris and I
 arNf slx if it was from Paris. it wasn't any Proeier than mine, for my design was perfectly exclusive. Madame Sheers brt uGht it over last fall and you couldn't buy any finer goods in the shops
 I won't wear shoddy things that may look just as well but that aren't the real things Everybody knows that's what Madge does, She gets credit for having just as many 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 bought out a whole ostrich farm from the fuss she made. And there I wasn't saving thing and all the time I had new willow plume that was ten inches lon ger and an awful lot wider than hersr don't believe in making splnrge over your possessions,
 T don't believe she had three aneos- tors who were officers n the revolu- ton, so that she is entitled to three bars on her Daughters of the Revolu ton pin. Shesjust said thas because l was telling her that was eligible to the Daughters on both sides of the family, Why. my family tree goes M russear -ifrsssffiii many prominent persons as I am. Of course. if you haven't any good ances- tors it isn't your fault and you aren't exactly to blame. but I always think blood will tell.
 T may not be terribly pretty. but cont care, for my profile is aristo. cratic MT. Gilfoil says the mere line of my nose would show I was some. body. Yet Madge was trying to pre- tend that her profile was pure Greek, Pure fiddlesticks, Not that it is my nature to run down another girl, but that pretense of hers is simply too ridiculous,
 She gets so tiresome at times The ether day she insisted or telling about her summer in the Catskills when l had started to show my pic. lures of tine Mississippi river and she repeated over and over again that she visited the most fashionbale camp there and that the other people were al mil.io2 ares or somethingl She can talk; but I don't believe her. and anyhow every one knows that house. boat trip l took was the most unioue thing of its kind ever heard of in this region,
 I'd like to know if she had taree men among her millionaires who were as devoted to her as John Fairchild and Stanley Williams. and Lem Bard well were to me? Why. they were standing joke to all the rest, If one wasn't hanging over me the other two were and they just raeked their brains to get ahe ad of one another, It was dreadfu!ly hard to keep peace among them. There certainly are drawbacks to being the most popular girl in a crowd. It just takes little clever. n ss, that's all.
 Why, Mrs. Smith-the deaf old woman, you know who has cataracts too-she said she never saw a parson ! with more tact than I had! She liked ! me because 1 always selected her for chaperon when We took excursions l on shore. l always believe in being 1 kind to the afflicted
 What really made me see Madge ir her true colors was her saying she could marry Harold a.an5ing if she'G only say the word Harold doesn.l care two stvaws about her He likcs a girl with more brains, Why. hel talk to me by the hour. He says it is 1