The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-01-24

Il was just thinking, went on
Aunt Amelia about two girls down
at home ana wondering why every
human man is an exception TO the
rule. You give any man the sort OF
girl he ought 10 like and he backs
away and loses his head over the
other kind and then expects you TO
congratulate him on having succeeded
in making his whole life miserable.
There were the Green girls, Emma
and Bessie, and when you married and
went away they were makig mud pies.
Well 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
a 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 a fashion of seeing
down to the bottom Of your mind
where You had tucked away the dis
agreeable part Of yourself and thought
it hidden. Not that Emma was a
prig-she was jlst an exceptionally
IoVaI,y eUoaf.rnfn1ad oiry
Their mother was delicate and
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
ting up, too Emma knew how to
cook and Bessie frankly said she
loathed the kitchen and all concerned
with it and would rather live on toast
and tea than burn her face and hands
and get a headache.
Emma made herself the pfettiest
sort Of dresses and blouses and Bessie
got hers ready-made or hired dress
maker She said she didn't know how
to Wv 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 H. She had
all the virtues OF 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.
Well, after Bessie had driven two
men to drink ana 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 rich man came
along. She promptly married the rich
man
"You ought to see her house. She
won't bother her head oyer It, be
cause she says there are servants tc
I do that Her husband never got d
decent meal at home and nothing III
the place is ever put away where il
/ belongs Her husband sews on his
I own buttons and carries up her break
fast to ner before he leaves in the
morning. If she sheds tears about
anything he buys her diamonds. and
II she sulks he let's her go 10 Europe
"Emma2 She married the banl
cashier finally and they are ordinarily
happy You see, like all men whe
marry good wives, he takes his per
fectly run home as d matter OF course
Sometimes when he meets Bessie she
looks at him through her eyelashes in
the old way and his heart thumps.
The good-looklng metronly woman
stared out or the window "Td better
send Rosamund 70 a beauty shop foi
cultivation and tell her to stop think
ing about anybody but herself II she