Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-03-09
THEY
DISAPPROVED
OF HER

"T've seen her off the STAGE" said
the girl with the new mop couture,
addressing the others at the bridge
table, "and she is a perfect sight.
Her complexion Is painfully made up.
It's my deal, believe. hope it will
| be no trumper.
We'll, she sat next to US in a box
| at the theater the other night and Of
all the conceited people!" declared
the girl with the Russian blouse. "She
acted as If everybody in the place had
come just to look at her. Oh, yes, it
is my lead, isn't it?"
did you ever see such a mass Of
] pure gold hair in your life?" put in
| the girl with the velvet shoes, arrang-
ing the dummy hand. 'It seems too
! bad that it is work of art instead
! of a work Of nature. She has it done
! at the same beauty parlor, l dol
mean where have my hair sham
| pooed."
why, 1 heard it was a perfectly
beautiful wig" said the girl with the
/ mop couture. "She fixes all the braids
and curls first, and then just draws it
! on"
Pardon me; you revoked on that
trick" politely said the girl with the
| Russian blouse. IT should think 1t
would show around the edges or that
most wonderful eyes and eyelashes of
! any actress on the stage"
! Eyes, but they are dyed" declared
the girl with the velvet shoes. "They
say her eyes were very small and she
had sF~sue kind of wonderful opera
ton in Germany and the corners of
her eyes were slit and that made
them big and long. I wonder how she
dyes her eyelashes?"
dips them into the ink bottle,
probably" hippantly suggested the
girl who was pivoting as dummy be-
cause she didn't know the game. did
you ever hear what made her feet so
small?"
No one had heard.
"She was born that way" solemnly
declared the girl who didn't know the
game. "She never had slices taken
off them"
What a humorist!" shifted the girl
with the mop couture. tits too bad
that some people we know weren't so
fortunate. / think I'll try this a
j heart, for we must win this rubber,
! partner"
] 1T is almost sad to think that any
body with such refined face could
have such a dreadful cigarette habit"
mourned the girl with the Russian
blouse. why, do you know" lower
ing her voice and looking carefully
/ around the room for possible caves
/ choppers, II heard the other day that
she refused to go on when 1t was her
cue the opening night because some
! body has mislaid her cigarette case
She insisted that the show would
have to wait until she found her
cigarettes. Maybe that's what makes
her so droopy and languid in that last
act where everybody just has to cry.
] weps bucketfuls."
well, when she wasn't smoking or
dyeing her eyelashes or pulling on her
wig did you ever hear what she was
1
know the game, with little steely
CLINT in her eyes. "My cousins chum
has been her understudy for the past
year and her closest friend. She told
me that this dreadful person was the
J most lovable woman she had ever
known. Every Sunday she makes the
| round of certain charitable institu.
tions and sings for the cripples and
I, orphans and they all adore her. She
has two little protegees that she is
helping to perfect their musical edu-
cation. She has supported an invalid
sister for years, and has sent her
everywhere for her health. She
bought home for her mother and
she told my sisters chum that this
year she would be able to get out Of
debt if she could manage to keep up
through the season"
'It's just what 1 should have ex-
pected of her." declared the girl with
the Russian blouse, ardently tive
always adored her and I'm going to
have my evening gown made like that
apricot gown of hers"
1.-THE hairdresser vowed and de-
clared that my hair was done exactly
Che way she has hers done," affirmed
the girl with velvet shoes.
Let's all go down to see her again"
suggested the girl with the mop
couture. 'T've done nothing but rave
over her since 1 saw her. I'm so
sorry, partner, that 1 trUmped your
ace"
you might take your opera glasses
next time and sit in the front row."
sweetly advised the girl who didn't
know the game.