Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-14
September ID, 1911.
Name and Address.

Whenever you meet girl whose present
glory is based on a much Wanted tamly
tree, a hazy lot of rich relatives and con-
slant references to influential friends, you
want TO begin a verificauon process, &C
cordine to the Chronic Bachelor, Just call
her hand some time and see If she isn't
buffing
You see, it's this way. The girl with a
pose figures out she isn't attractive enough
in herself to hold the attention and adrnira-
ton of those she meets so she surrounds
herself with a dictionary atmosphere OF
position, money and influence, in the hope
that some good catch will be dazzled into
proposing She apes the clothes, manners
and pleasures Of the rich. The one great
fear of her life is that she will some day
forget herself and be natural
Il met the girl with a pose back IN my
little old home town in Ohio" said the
Bachelor, reminiscently. Her name was
Marion. She blew into the place one sum
mer day and by the slender thread of
natural mountaineering she claimed the
attention of one OF the most popular girls
in town. She was ultra agreeable, con-
veying to every one the impression that
meeting them was the aim and object Of
her existence She referred constantly TO
our home in the country and our sum
mer place on the lakes but always with
the sad mystery of a possession passed
| and gone.
Before many moons Marion was well
to the front at all social gatherings OF the
elect. was the first to fall for her exclu-
give air. I admired her for her fortitude
in adjusting herself to her new and re-
duced circumstances so gracefully.
I
vous little mother looked half starved but
she stuck to the ship and carried out the
campaign as planned by her daughter to
the last letter
"one morning, late In the winter. /
called at the office OF a friend just as
Marion was leaving. There were dnmis-
taxable traces Of tears on her face, and,
Of course, demanded an explanation from.
the man in the office. Reluctantly he told
me Marion was three months behind in her
gas bill and that the company has threat
ened to turn off her heat
In a few days the storm broke. A de-
termined milliner, less forbearing than his
fellows had encamped on Marion's front
door step, refusing TO leave until his bill
was paid. The rumor flew, as rumors are
wont 20 DO In small towns, and soon a
steady stream of tradesmen were beseiging
the house. The following facts hastily de-
veloped
"Marions delicate little mother sewed
from dawn until far into the night fol
some firm in the city but kept the fact a
secret from her daughters fashionable
friends, who always saw her dignified and
smiling in her one black silk dress.
Half of the materials for the refresh.
ments at Marion's parties were borrowed
from the kitchen of the neighbor on the
right and the other half from the neighboI
on the left.
Marion voted girls who worked quite
impossible, though she worked everybody
in less honorable way.
Later reports are 10 the effect that this
girl with pose married the impoverished
son Of an old family, who had been q
notorious fortune hunter. What a shock
when he goes 70 look up the rich relatives
Think OF all the time they must have
wasted posing for each other when thcy