The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-01-05
What Everybody
Says

The following Is what II Is said aft.
er the engagement is announced Of
almost any girl to almost any man:
The Girl Herself-T'd like to see
Lillian's face when she reads the So
ciety news-ff she ever does anything
SO intellectual as to read! She's al
ways been perfectly crazy about Bob
and she'll be utterly furious! She'll
try to make people think she could
have had him If shed wanted him:
but every one knows how she has
chased him for months wonder #
any one will send Arthur paper
Poor boy! 1t will be such a blow to
him! If ever a man was devoted to a
girl he was to me I'll always feel
that I've ruined his life He's one
Of the constant kind that never gets
over such a disappointment. wish
] could decide whether want a white
satin or a crepe meteor wedding
dress
The Man Himself-Yes, they've got
my name spelled right, after all Gee!
It's something like reading your own
obituary notice. it's so formal! Any
how. it's nobody's business but ours
and don't see any use of all this fool,
ishness In print! Every idiot | know'll
be around to see me tomorrow and
tell me how to be happy though mar
rted! Well. 1t will settle Mckenzie
all right-he won't be sending Edith
flowers now in that airy, oh.T've-got.a-
chance.yet way of his. always want.
ed to kick him. Robert Rogerson
Fairburn-yes. that's me, all right
Well. life begins to look real and earn
est now wonder If Ethel won't
kind of think when she reads this that
maybe she wasn't so bright after all
running off and marrying Smith just
because she had quarreled with me
She's had three years of pretty rough
shedding with him. OF course it's all
for the best SO far as I'm concerned,
butt wonder!
-Lillian-What!- You don't tell-me
Rob is really engaged to Edith! Well,
What do you think of that! It's most
remarkable how men do these weird
things when they are reduced to des
peration, isn't 1t? Poor Bob! OF
course Edith is very nice girl-so
capable and domestic and all that
but. my DEAR did you ever see a girl
so dowdy. and with so little style? /
am sure Mrs Noah did her hair up In
precisely that same way in the days
of the ark Bob always did love pref.
ty things-that's one reason he hung
around me so much Some men never
notice new gown or a smart hat. but
he always does No, I'm awfully fond
of Bob, but mercy! I never could fall
In love with him! Never! sup
pose he realized it at last! Poor Bob.
Arthur-Hello! Edith's going to
marry Bob Fairburn! Well, we'll!
Nice little girl. Edith! Seems to me
| had crush on her myself once
She had the biggest brown eyes-no
that wasn't Edith--it was Mabel II
remember now that Edith's eyes were
blue Or were they hazel? Where in
creation did I put that tobacco? Hey
Ferguson! Got any tobacco?
Mckenzie twho sent flowers tn
Edith)- by one the roses fall!
So Edith Is going to shake us all for
Bob Fairburn! 1t was worth the for
lists bills. getting him mad He
seemed to think that every one was
In conspiracy to take his girl away
from him. Edith's too quiet for me
But IT paid to stand in with the family
her fathers tips on the stock mar.
ket were all right
Ethel twho married Smith)-Oh,
Teddy! Guess who's going to &c,
married now-one of my old beaux!
No. not that one-Bobbie Fairburn.
Why. of course you remember him.
lie took me to that party where
irst met you and was crazy mad he.
cause you had four dances! used
o think rather liked him, but thai
vas before you came along! cant
Tagine Why | ever was SO foolish
GOODNESS! What If | had really mar.
led him! had an awful time work
ng up quarrel with him so as to let
li'n down easily hated to be down
light brutal and drop him, so seized
IN the first chance for a fight It was
wiully funny. now that think of It
Well. Robbie was nice boy in his
'wn way wonder who she is
never heard of her
Edith's Relatives individually and
ollectively)-Weil. suppose this
means another wedding present II