The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-04-07
Her
f~,orgetfulness

Lead me TO a memory cure" began
the girl. who likes to talk. Buy me
a ticket for a full course, and If there
are any extras tack them on! ! need
assistance of that kind and II I don't
get 1t pretty soon I'll be a social out
cast! ssa@a.
1T is perfectly ridiculous that peo-
pie attach such importance to ones
having ones mind on things! When
life Is so short what difference can 1t
make in the history Of a hundred
years or SO whether you do or do not
forget to attend to something you had
IN a moment Of alteration said you
would? like breadth of view. my
self,
IF Joseph Stevens only had had
treadth of view he would not now be
Considering me with lofty dtsdain in
stead of bestowing upon me the de-
voted admiration which once was my
portion from him. Taking it all In all.
/ succeeded last week in getting my
self cordially hated by more persons
than I had before realized were OF
my list of acquaintances.
1T seemed 10 good to have an eve
ming with nothing to do when Wed
nesday came that I resolved to enjoy
It thoroughly, for I had had a rather
strenuous social career for some time.
So after dinner I went upstairs and
made myself ready for bed. l rubbed
cold cream into my haggard coun-
tenance for ten minutes and did my
hair up on curriers', because 1t had
seen so much OF the hot iron that 1t
needed a rest. Just as l was turning
out the light, the doorbell rang.
Presently mother came upstairs
and into my 1o.;n with a bew1ldered
c~ountenance. Size blinked at my CO.'S
tune and my shiny face.
Dear met she mur1nured. This
is most peculiar Of you! Joseph Ste
vens is downstairs
"'Send him away I said, sleepily.
Tell him l have three headaches and
feel another coming on!'
az will try to Gus you properly
mother said with dignity. But she
came back almost Immediately. He
insists that he has an engagement to
take you to the theater this EVENING"
II Just regarded mother sternly.
When l am guilty of anything serious
I find it Is a great moral bracer to
act as If the other person were at
fault. You can see for yourself
told her, that l can't go to the the
alter with my hair done like this and
about a pound Of cold cream on my
face. think 1t most annoying of Je-
seph to keep such an inopportune en-
gagement! You'll have to make a
thoroughly good explanation, mother,
dear, and get me out of 1T gracefully
Mother is sometimes most hard
hearted. I shall tell him. she AN
nounced uncompror'isingly, that yo;
forgot all about it!'
And she did. I've been writing
contrite notes to Joseph ever since,
hut he seems to thinl- that he Is in
jured.
The next day l met Mary Miller
downtown shopping and we a tea
together. 1 devoted fifteen minutes
to telling her about the card party
John Pool had asked me to on the
2Sth and how fattered l was to have
him pick me out and what | was 60
ing to wear and how he had asked
me If l preferred violets. When !
got through she coughed in an odd
way.
"1 suppose she murmured. "a lit,
tie thing like the dinner at my holse
on the 28th which you accepted last
week couldn't be expected to remain
in your memory! Sometimes 1t Is
convenient to forget things
Nothing l could say in my horror
served to convince her that l hadn't
sighted her deliberately. Mary is sc
touchy. She'll never speak to me
again. 1 suppose. l was SO upset over
1t that 1 got home before I remem'
bered that l had a five o'clock ap'
pointment with the. dressmaker. So ]
didn't get my spangled dress In time
for sally's dance! I had to wear the
pink one that simply kills the pink
dress Sally wore and l had promised
her not to wear mine. Now she
thinks I'm a deceitful cat and wanted
to spoil her looks.
The worst, however, was when sia
girls arrived Saturday for luncheon
and I hadn't remembered inviting
them until they walked in on me. The
| cook was sick and mother and I were
eating handmade sandwiches in tho
pantry at the time. I really was {
bit confused. Leaving mother speech
less, I marched all six of those girl.
around the. corner to a little home
restaurant and gave them a 35-cen'
table syd'hote luncheon. OF course III
have them at home again soon t.
make up for it, but most Of then
seemed annoyed at taking all theil
best clothes into . cheap cafe. ! thinl
they we're lucky to k6 anything I,
eat at all.
1T seems that when we left tn,