The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

all my time sympathizing If that were
true, because all the thin women | know
want to be fat, while all the fat ones
want to be thin, and the tall ones want
to be short and the short ones tall, and
the blondes want to be brunettes and the
brunettes blondes. SO there you are! l
| guess It's better just TO go on and be a
'prlnd1e like | am, and be able to wear
and eat and do most any old thing"
We'll, you are the easily pleased one, y
said No. ]. but / am glad to find one
person of my acquaintance who is really
| pleased with herself. Now look at poor
Deborah Brownl The girl never was
cut out for social leader, and yet she d
rather be one than anything on earth.
Her mother is largely responsible for 1t,
though, l think.
THE young girl who was most a saint
| Whose mother advised her to paint;
| Said she: "Oh. mamma,
| How foolish you are
| TO want me to be what | ANTI.
Exactly agreed No. g. DE
borah Brown would be much better off
embroidering doilies or crocheting tides
than trying to go in society merely be-
cause her father is wealthy and would
spend his money, world without end"
Don't you wish you had all of it?'
asked No. / enthusiastically "Thinls
what star you'd be when that
lumpish, sluggish. inert creature doesn' t
really care jot about 1t and will prob
ably run away with the corner grocer's
son some day who looks like he had
been given away with green trading
stamps. Maybe then her mother will re-
alize that you cannot change a plain
geranium into a violet, nor stupid I'M
attractive woman into a society leader
by the way, do you remember that
sissy. Perkins boy We used to go to
school within asked the other.
You mean the one the girls all laughed
at because he cried whenever you spoke
TO him. was the inquiry.
Yes said No. 2. We'll you
know how his parents tried to din Latin
and French into his head and then
sent him away to Yale to prepare to be
a lawyer? Well, what to you think?
He's gone into the picking business
Isn't that according to the eternal fitness
Of things? He'll add another variety to
the 81, for IL there ever was pickle
he's it,
"Well. Teddy Roosevelt says he'd
rather be st than president, just the
same chimned in No. l.
Silly" exclaimed No. O. But, honest,
| for true carrying out our line of
thought about people always wanting to
be what they aren't. | saw that ugly
Maize Stewart the other day. Not Elsie
she's her cousin. Don't you remember
Maizie, with the dimple in her chin.
Well, If you say l told you I'll never
speak to you again, but they do say that
she made that dimpe by sticking her
slate pencil in her chin when she went
to kindergarten! Isn't that awful?"
Il think 1t was quite clever said
No. |. But. what were we talk
Ing about before that? Oh, yes! That
stupid Perkins boy! Don't you remem-
Der how his sister wanted TO be singer.
and how we groaned whenever she got
up in public to show off? Well, after she
came from Europe, where she had been
studying, she sang for little party one
! evening and when she finished one old
gentleman. trying to be very courteous
and say the proper thing, got up and
bowed like Chesterfield and remarked
oh, Miss Perkins. how you do sing.' "
1T always make me think OF the peo-
pie who might have been so many better
things than what they arc. merely be-
cause they aspired to do something that
they never were intended to-" said No.
2. Il think it is a positive talent
! to be what one, really Is. Isn't 1t the
cryptic Mr.. James who says:
What is talent anyway. but the art
of being completely whatever one hap
pens to be?'
(Which reminds me that we are being
very loquacious. and besides there goes
the curtain and we must postpone this
animated discussion to future time.
And | was rather sorry, because the
conversation was most convincing and
exactly in my line of thought as to the
perfect foolishness of trying to be some
thing you are not.