The bee., 1911-02-24

Three of my puffs are Just pinned
on" Winnie reminded him. virtuously
She looked pathetic as she said il
and he patted her shoulder encourag-
ingly.
"Oh. WELL" he treasured her. IF
that's the style In hairdessing you're
not to blamel You just do as others
do and it's no fault of yours! What
can't understand Is why women think
they fool any onel blind man can
detect drugstore complexion 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, ALIVE got to say Is II a wife of
mine made such a goose of herself ]
don't believe | 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?" tu
You're terribly smart" Winnie muir
INJURED. still admiringly. Il always won
der, when stop to think about 1t. what
you ever saw in me to make you fall
In love with mel
Il couldn't help doing it," explained
Yarger, fondly Il guess you're as
smart as am any day Of the week
when it comes to that And did you
ever look in the glass?"
Il don't like to be flattered. Winnie
reminded him pouting in the manner
which means that a woman likes It
very much, indeed Il 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 mighty good locker. be-
sides being everything else that's nice
And your face is real"
you'll make me vain in minute. =
Winnie said, sweetly. She regarded
him seriously with pensive brown eyes
Il guess women like men, she added
irrelevantly, because they're so child
Ike! The nicer they are the more ju-
venile they seem to bel"
How old am | Them Yarger In
quired
oh" Winnie told him, meditatively,
with her head on one side. you're
about IA, think"
For some days afterward Miss Hill
appeared thoughtful Something seem
ed to have dampened her spirits. Var
ger wondered about 1t helplessly. One
night when he called to take her to
the theater he observed as she de-
scended the stairs that she seemed ac-
tually solemn "A
Don't you feel well?" he inquired so
licitously as she walked over 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
7mething 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 have to
help them out. Otherwise I'd look like
a freak. There-how's that?"
Apparently she did not observe his
stupefied silence She went on with
her work. I've such lot Of color as
usual thing" she murmured, that |
If happen to be little pale | look |
dreadful and then / dab 1t on gently |
It's new kind and really 1t doesn't |
showl When have a cold In the |
head, as | have tonight, always look |
washed out And'-Miss Hill turned
and faced Yarger defiantly-"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 If |
you capt detect it any more readily
than you've detected my occasional
rouge and my poor little. eyebrow pen
ell don't see that it'll do any hurt,
so there, nowl
TIT was your childlike trust that |
made me tell you, Bailey couldn't
bear to go on deceiving YOU And now
If you can't love me any more wh'wh-
why. just s-s-say solp
Yarger recovered himself. You may
paint yourself purple. green and blue
If YOU want to Winniel" he said, hero
Ically Somehow my affection doesn't
seem blighted a particle! guess it
makes difference who the girl hap
pens to be! But TO think never no
ticedi"