The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-03-30
HE HAD A
THOUGHT

sal0 young Bailey Yarger, 1T Is art11.
ciality in a woman! What he likes is
a w%hole-souled honesty in looks as we'll
as in manners! You can always tell
the real thing!"
"Of course" agreed Winnie Hill ad-
miringly. Winnie always made a hit
by her promptness in agreeing with
masculine opinions as ladled out by the
men themselves. She was very pretty
after a rich and brilliant fashion
and she and young Bailey Yarger were
engaged to be married.
That's what first attracted me to
fellow can't help but admire genuine
ness when he meets It,"
Three of my puffs are Just pinned
on" Winnie reminded him, v%irtuously.
She looked pathetic as she said it
and he patted her shoulder encourag-
ingly.
"Oh. WE'LL" he treasured her, III
that's the style in hairdessing you're
not to blame! You just do as others
do and it's no fault of yours! What I
can't understand is why women think
they fool any one! "A blind man can
detect a drugstore complexion a block
away, and as for the ruby hair or the
glittering golden locks they turn out
while you wait-if you've got the price
well, all I've got to say is If a wife of
mine made such a goose of herself
don't believe l ever could think the
same of her again!"
"Of course not" agreed Winnie Hill.
you've got too much sense!"
They can't fool met" said Yarger,
grimly. I've got my eyes open as
much as the next one, haven't I, little
girl?"
you're terribly smart" Winnie muir
INJURED, still admiringly. II always won
der, when l stop to think about 1t, what
you ever saw in me to make you fall
In love with mel"
II couldn't help doing It," explained
Yarger, fondly. Il guess you're as
smart as I am any day Of the week
when 1t comes to that! And did you
ever look in the glass?"
II don't like to be %f1attered," Winnie
reminded him, pouting in the manner
which means that a woman likes It
very much, indeed. II don't like to
think it's just my looks
1T isn't" protested Yarger. I'm
not saying that they don't help! It's
kind of nice to have the girl you fall in
love with a mighty good locker, be-
sides being everything else that's nice.
And your face is real!"
You'll make me vain in q minute"
Winnie said, sweetly. She regarded
him seriously with pensive brown eyes.
II guess women like men," she added.
irrelevantly, because they're so child
like! The nicer they are the more ju-
venile they seem to bel"
How old am l them" Yarger in
quired.
"Oh," Winnie told him, meditatively,
with her head on one side, you're
about ~, l Think"
For some days afterward Miss Hill
appeared thoughtful. Something seem
ed to have dampened her spirits. Var
ger wondered about it helplessly. One
night when he called to take her to
the theater he observed as she de-
scended the stairs that she seemed &C.
tually solemn.
Don't you feel well?" he inquired o
%licitously as she walked owe toward
the mantel mirror.
She made no answer, but opened her
silver mesh bag and with deliberation
extracted several articles which she
carefully laid on the mantel shelf.
Leaning forward, she proceeded to do
something at which Yarger, watching
her, gasped.
Winnie looked around with the eye.
brow pencil in her fingers. you see"
she said casually, my eyebrows grow
so very dark and thick at the start and
then dwindle out to nothing from the
middle to the other end that I have to
help them out. Otherwise I'd look like
a freak. There-how's that?"
Apparently she did not observe his
stupefed silence. She went on with
her work. I've such a lot of color az
a usual thing" she murmured, that
If I happen to be a little pale l look
dreadful and her l dab it on gently!
It's a new kind and really 1t doesn't
show! When l have a cold in the
head, as l have tonight, always look
washed out. And"-Miss Hill turned
and faced Yarger defantly-"and
loath gray hair! When mine begins to
turn I'm going to dye it If it takes the
last cent in the family treasury! II
you can't detect it any more readily
than you've detected my occasional
rouge and my poor little eyebrow pen.
Gil l don't see that it'll do any hurt
SO there. now!
TIT vas your childlike trust that
made me tell you, Bailey! I couldnt
bear to go on deceiving you! And now
If you can't love me any more wh'wh,
why, just s-s-say sol"
Yarger recovered himself. "You may
paint yourself purple, green and blue
If you want to Winnie!" he said, hero.
ically. Somehow my affection doesn't
seem blighted a particle! 1 guess II
makes a difference who the girl hap.
pens to be! But to think I never no.