The Huttig news., 1909-12-11
SHE NEVER
 BOASTS

 managed to walk
 "Oh, she's pleasant enough" said the girl with the uncurled ostrich feather. "Only l can't bear person who is always boastingi Why, to hear Madge talk you'd think nobody else had ever gone anywhere or seen any thing or owned anything l get so tired of it. l think it is positively cheap to boast. don't you2"
 'I should say sol" agreed the girl with the narrow skirt. That's the reason I wondered why you talked so much about your new sapphire brace leti"
 The ideaia flashed the girl with the uncurled ostrich feather. T was simply explaining why the sapphires were so much more valuable than or dfnary sapphires. I wasn't bragging in the least! If you thought so it was only because you were enviousi There's differencel You ought to have heard Madge yesterday. I 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 if it 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 ill the shops
 T won't wear shoddy things that may look just as well but that aren't the real things. Everybody knows that's what Madge doesl She gets credit for having just as many things as I 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 I had new willow plume that was ten inches lon ger and an awful lot wider than hers, l don't believe in making splurge over your possessions
 T don't believe she had three ances- tors who were officers n the revolu- tion, so that she is entitled to three bars on her Daughters of the Revolu- tion pin! She just said that because was telling her that was eligible to the Daughters on both sides of the familyi Why. my family tree goes sway back and is just as clcart There aren't many girls descended from as many promin ant 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 thiuk blood will tell
 T may not be terribly pretty, but don't 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 other day she insisted OF telling about her summer in the Catskills when 1 had started to show my pic. lures of the Mississippi river and she repeated over and over again that she visited the most fashionbale camp there and that the other people were all million aires or somethingi She can talk; but I don't believe her. and anyhow every one knows that house boat trip took was the most unique thing of it's kind ever heard of in this regionl
 I'd like to know if she had three men among her millionaires who were as devoted 10 her as John Fairchild and Stanley Williams, and Lem Bard well were to me? Why. they were a standing joke to all the rest, If one wasn't hanging over me the other two were and they just racked their brains to get ahead of one anotheri Ii was dreadfully hard to keep peace among them. There certainly are drawbacks to being the most popular girl in a crowd. It just takes a little clever ness. that's all.
 Why, Mrs. Smith-the deaf old woman, you know. who has cataracts too-she said she never saw a person with more tact than I had. She liked me because l always selecte her for a chaperon when We took excursions on shore. l always believe in heinz kind to the afflicted
 What really made me see Madge 1T her true colofs was her saving she could marry Harold Lansing if she'd only say the word Harold doesnt care two straws about her, He likes a girl with more brains, Why be1 talk to me by the hour He says it is such a relief after the inane cbatte, oe fhe others. He wouldn't think nj Madge seriously for second!
 That girl thinks she is irresistible, Girls who really have lot of attention aren't talking about it. I'm sure I never do. If there's ene thing Tn oud Of if is that I never hoastl"
 I've noticed that" said her frient