The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-04-28
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woman with the sharp lose. I'm not
envious nor jealous. There isn't an
envious hair in my head. and I'm Just
sorry for people who are different.
Take my sister-in-law, for instance.
That woman is so afraid she won't
be first in everything and have every
thing nicer than anybody else's that
1t has ruined her disposition. Not
that she had any disposition to boast
OF at the start. though my brother
Henry couldn't do a thing but rave
about her sweet nature before he
risd her.
Shed hardly got into their new fiat
Ybefore she was running down my
dtning-room rug to my face, just be-
cause hers wasn't az good. She did
1t In a polite way, Of course. When l
mentioned that I wouldn't give n
body brussels rug with roses like mine
Tor ten dull, oriental things like
hers she just smiled and said mine
wouldn't wear nearly as long as hers
and to some tastes my colors were
crude. Just because she was. sorry
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times the sun I put in my rugs-and
got nothing so good looking for it!
She's kept hers al this time, out Of
spite to make me think she Is per-
fectly satisfied.
"she is perfectly foolish about
spending money. Goodness knows, If
I'D ask for it I could have lots more
money to spend, but I don't believe in
hagging your husband. She's got my
brother 80 terrorized that he just
hands money over as though he liked
to, but I guess I can read between the
lines. She makes my brother think
she's delicate. l guess I know these
blim, wiry women-they're az strong
hs a horse. She's not nearly SO deli
cate as l am and there's no n In
her being pampered
"She's just plain foolish over her
complexion. I guess other people on
this earth have had compilations as
well as herself and, land knows, hers
wasn't so awfully much! Why, when
al a baby-I've heard my mother
say SO many times-people used to
stop her to exclaim over my complex
ion. Mrs. Perkins, they'd say, 1T
isn't natural for any human child to
have a skin like that, an you want to
look out. You'll never raise her.
OF course, 1t wasn't natural, for 1t to
stay 80 marvellous after I grew up.
but If I sat with my back to the light
1t looked all right Only l never
7boasted Of it-and Miranda making
such a fuss over her skin! She has
my brother hypnotized into thinking
1t wonderful, too.
"'Put on a veil, dear he says to her
when they go automobiling. I don't
want you to ruin your face with the
dust As IL a dynamite blast could
make her face look any worse than it
does.
''It makes me sick to see a man SO
fooled by a woman who buys her COM
plexion at the drug store and puts 1t
on with a trowel.
Some time when I get a chance I'm
going through Miranda's top bur eau
drawer and pull out her rouge and
powder truck and leave 'eln lying
around where my brother can see EN-.
It's perfect shame for him to be Sc
deceived and SO happy about it. You
needn't talk to me about being able
to see her color come and go-she just
hypnotizes people into thinking 1t
does.
THAT electric car of hers is the
worst! I've walked or taken the
street cars all the days of my life, and
If that's good enough for me it's
plenty good enough for my brothers
wife. Just because her father gave it
to her that is no sign she shouldn't
have been woman enough to refuse 1t.
Loading my poor brother down with
the expense of keeping 1t! Her father
built the garage in the g of their
lot to keep 1t in and she says she
and Henry take all the care Of 1t
themselves-but that's no excuse It's
Just genuine, reckless. downright ex-
travagance, and It makes me sick.
Why, I'm perfectly sure l could have
six electrics If I'd ask for 'em. but
I have too much n and a better
Idea Of my duty to my husband.
Miranda drove around the day after
she got the electric and said she'd
come to take me for a ride. but I
wasn't going to let her have the pleas
ure Of gloating over me and thinking
she had so much more than I did. She
Just wanted to show on before my
neighbors and have them plying me
because I didn't have things like my
: brothers. wife.
$50 I said: No. thankyo Miranda.
I have my duties at home to attend to.
as q good wife should, and I've no
time to go, flying around town. when
4 might be better employed in darning
my poor husbands socks. who is work
Ing hard at his ONCE I said 1t point
eddy, too. but I don't believe she took
1t to herself. she's 30 satisfied with
everything.
.But she can't bear to see me have
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