The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-08-31
TAKING NO
MORE RISKS

young man who was visiting watched
her hostess. The latter deliberately
hunted out her best Paris hatpins and
a fresh pair of white gloves. Then
she brushed her new tailor suit
Why" gasped the young woman
who was visiting. 81 thought you
said you were just going to run
around the corner to the grocery and
here you are putting on all your aft.
ernoon tea clothes,"
You are mistaken" said her host
ess firmly. Heretofore | have had
best clothes, and second best clothes,
and rainy-day garments, but from now
on | shall have but one outfit and that
my best! ! made my mind up to that
after last Wednesday.
You see, had a dressmaker in the
house and was attired in a kimono and
my hair was on the verge Of tumbling
down from my frantic endeavors to
help sew. can sit absolutely still
and just sew and in an hour | will
look like a worse wreck than would
If had gone through bargain sale
fight. At that precise moment Miss
Downs discovered that she had to
have a yard and half more lace and
] had to go downtown to get 1t.
Since 1t was just before lunch time
l figured that all the women who I'm.
tended to go downtown that morning
had already gone and II was too early
for me to meet any of them returning,
so | shouldn't run into a soul / knew
and IL wasn't worth while to make a
careful toilet.
81 noticed that my face needed pow.
dering and my hair needed doing up
and curling. In short, | looked
fright, all tag ends and with wor.
ried frown between my eyebrows
Still, ! got into an old suit that need.
ed pressing badly and didn't change
the shabby pumps had on that were
all scufiled at the toes found after
] started in rush to catch the sub
urban train that had grabbed a pair
Of gloves with ripped finger ends.
when ! rushed breathless into the
last car and sank into a seat found
when ! raised my eyes that Sally
Homestead was sitting opposite. She
was gazing at me with the virtuous
expression engendered by knowledge
that she had on a new $125 suit,
$50 hat immaculate boots and gloves
and a carefully massaged complexion.
She took in every detail of my out
rageous attire with placidly commits.
Grating eyes as she Informed me that
she was going to a luncheon party.
She said II kindly as though she knew
l. of course, never had social occa-
sions proffered me Jpst before was
ready to break loose and kill her on
the spot she got of
MY station was next and / had just
caught my breath, stilled my rage and
bitterly prepared to face the world
and made a dash for the back door of
the store | wanted. stepped off the
ear into the full glare of the noon sun
and gazed straight into the face of a
man / haven't seen for ten years.
almost married him once-and you
know you always have sort of senti |
mental regard for the men you almost |
married but didn't
81 had often wondered idly what |
had become of him and where he was |
and sighed over him pityingly, for he |
really thought lot OF me ten years |
ago.
"All these years I'd fancied his |
carrying memories of me as the fair
haired. lovely girl ineradicably en-
shrined within his heart and ] was
quite certain that no matter If he did
ever fall in love again and marry he
wouldn't really mean 1t,
We'll, there he was We just stared
Rt each other. ! was so furious that
he should see me looking as ! did that
I glared at him as though It was every
bit his fault-and he was so amazed
that he stood there with his mouth
open
81 suppose he was mentally dis.
posing forever OF the fair-haired, love.
iy girl and thanking his stars that |
had refused him. Anyhow, neither OF
Us had sense enough TO speak and
when | came to ! rushed on, simply
boiling with wrath. OF all the people
on earth should have chosen 10 meet
him last that morning When a per.
son has an ideal of you It is perfectly
dreadful to see It go to smash before
your eyes.
81 was buying the lace as though |
intended to go out and commit suicide
afterward when the
woman next at the counter looked up
and spoke. She was my immediate
predecessor with Jim. I've always
been a little Jealous of her, but have
eomforted myself with the idea that
really was lots better looking than she.
There she stood in a new long au-
tomobile coat that looked howlingly
and evidently she had Just
been to the hairdresser's. ! know she
had on rouge, but she looked fine and
7 wish you could have seen the lift to
Aer eyebrows as she took me In!
81 wanted to strangle her with the
yard and half of lace, but instead |
sneaked out and took to the back
streets and skulked to the train All
the way home | hated myself and