The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-02-02

right"
"why. Aunt Amelia" cried the ma
tronly woman. sitting down in sur
prise at her relatives leyity.
4 think I've picked up bit OF
slang since the boys down home went
TO college Aunt Amelia explained,
with an air Of pride. I've kept up
with the times since you were mar
ried. Anastasia And you notice lots
Of things as you grow older y
u was just thinking" went on
Aunt Amelia about two girls down
at home and wondering why every
human man Is an exception to the
rule You give any man the sort Of
girl he ought to like and be backs
away and loses his head over the
other kind and then expects yon 10
congratulate him on having succeeded
in making bis whole life miserable
There were the Green girls, Emma
and Bessie. and when you married and
went away they were makig mud pies
Wen. when they grew up If ever there
was selfish bit OF humanity it was
Bessie Green She was not indolent
she was just plain. downright lazy
People didn't think much about her
faults. though, because her eyes had
trick OF sparkling through her
/ lashes at you and she was always
ready for any good time that was go
ing
Emma was Just as pretty as Bes-
sic. but she was quiet and she didn't
look at you through her eyelashes
/ She had great gray eyes as open and
/ clear as lakes and fashion Of seeing
down TO the bottom Of your mind
whore YOU had tucked away the die
agreeable part OF yourself and thought
( il hidden Not that Emma was
prig she was just an exceptionally
( lovely. sweetminded girl
Their mother was delicate aud
Emma used to get UP early and see
that breakfast was right for father
and the boys Usually Bessie had her
breakfast sent upstairs She said that
since Emma was up for breakfast
( there really was no sense in her get
Z ting up. too. Emma knew how to
( cook and Bessie frankly said she
Z loathcd the kitchen and all concerned
with II and would rather live on TOAST
and tea than burn her face and hands
and get headache.
Emma made herself the prettiest
sort Of dresses and blouses and Bessie
got hers ready-made or hired a dress
maker She said she didn't know how
to sew and wasn't ever going to learn
In short, Emma spent her time do
ing things for other people because
she was naturally so generous and
sweet she couldn't help f. She had
all the virtues or a model woman be-
sides plenty OF good looks, and she
was properly modest and retiring
when they went out anywhere there
might be an older man or so who
would hunt out Emma because they
had Sufficient brains to appreciate her.
but you ought to have seen the young
circle about Bessie
swell. after Bessie had driven two
men to drink and two others had quar-.
relied about her and several more had
had the blues for months she got en-
gagged to the cashier in bank just
because Emma liked him Oh. no.
she didn't marry him she coolly
threw him over when a rich man came
along She promptly married the rich
man
You ought TO see her house She
won't bother her head over 1t. be-
cause she says there are servants to
do that Her husband never got a
decent meal at home and nothing in
the place Is ever put away whore II
! belongs Her husband sews on his
own buttons and carries up her break
fast TO her before he leaves in the
morning II she sheds tears about
anything he buys her diamonds, and
II She sulks he let's her 30 to Europe.
Emma? She married the bank
cashier finally and they are ordinarily
happy You sec. like all men who
marry good wives. he takes his per
4 fectly run homo as a matter OF course.
Sometimes when hemeets Bessie she
looks at him through her eyelashes in
the old way and his heart thumps''
The Eoodlooking matronly woman
stared out Of the window nd better
send Rpaamupd TO beauty shop for
cultivation and tell her % stop think
INK about anybody but herself. II she
Is 70 be happy in future is that what
YOU mean2" she asked with little
sigh
n believe you might AZ well" re-
piled Aunt Amelia. THE world being
50 perfectly iaiosic IN these present
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