Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-03-15
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| you? exclaimed her friend, whose
skirt was so narrow around the bot
tom that 1t 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 a 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 1t is positively chc1?
to boast, don't your"
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
lett"
"The idea!"a 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 it was
only because you were envious!
! There's a differencel 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 hew 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 in the
shops
Il 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
lat with the willow plume last fall
you'd have thought she'd bought out a
whole ostrich farm from the fuss she
made! And there l wasn't saying a
thing and all the time l had a new
willow plume that was ten inches Ion
ger and an awful lot wider than hersl
don't believe in making a splurge
over your possessionsi
Il 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 l was eligible to
the Daughters on both sides Of the
family! Why, my family tree goes
way back and is just as clear! There
aren't many girls descended from as
many prominent 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 | 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 | had started to show my 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
!. all millioraires or something! She
can talk; but don't believe her, and
anyhow every one knows that house
boat trip | took was the most unique
thing of its kind ever heard of in this
region!
"I'd like to know if she had three
men among her milionaires who were
as devoted to her as John Fairchild
and Stanley Williams, and Lem Bard
we'll 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 racked their brains
to get ahead of one another! 1t was
dreadfully hard to keep peace among
them. There certainly are drawbacks
to being the most popular girl in a
crowd. 1t 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 | had! She liked
me because ! always selected her for
a chaperon when we took excursions
on shore. | always believe in being
kind to the afflicted
What really made me see Madge in
her true colors was her saying she
could marry Harold Lansing if she'd
only say the word Harold doesn't
care two straws about her! He likes
girl with more brains! Why. he'll
talk to me by the hour He says 1t is
suck a relief after the inane chatter