Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-03-23
SHE WASN'T
ENVlOUS

II J. GO say ~ myself remarked the
woman with the sharp nose. I'm not
env ou nor jealous. There isn't an
envIous hair in my head and I'm Just
sofry Tor people who are different
flake my sister-in-law. for instance,
THAI woman is so afraid she won't
be FIRST in everything and have every
thing nicer than anybody else's that
u has ruined her disposition. Not
that she had any disposition to boast
Of at the start, though my brother
Henry couldn't do thing but rave
about her sweet nature before he mar
ried her.
Shed hardly got into their new fiat
before she was running down my
diningroom rug to my face, just be-
cause hers wasn't as good. She did
II In polite way, of course. When
mentioned that wouldn't give one
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
she had spent all that money-three
times the sum put In my rugs-and
got nothing so good looking for 1t!
She's kept hers all this time out OF
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
nagging your husband She's got my
brother so terrorized that he just
hands money over as though he liked
to, but | guess | can read between the
lines. She makes my brother think
Shes delicate. l guess I know these
slim, wiry women-they're as strong
as a horse. She's not nearly so deli
cate as | am and there's no sense IN
her being pamperod.
shes just plain foolish over her
complexion. l guess other people on
this earth have had compilations as
well as herself and, land knows, hers
wasn't so awfully much! Why, when
| was baby-Tve heard my mother
say so many times-people used to
stop her to eXclaim over my complex
ion. Mrs. Perkins, they'd say, it
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 oouTse, # wasn't natural, for It to
stay so marvellous after | grew up,
but II sat with my back to the light
1t looked all right. Only l never
boasted of it-and Miranda making
such a fuss over her skin! She has
my brother hypnotized into thinking
it wonderful, too.
"'Put on a veil, dear he says to her
when they go automobiling. 4 don't
want you to ruin your face with the
dust AS If a dynamite blast could
make her face look any worse than II
does
1T makes me sick to see man sc
fooled by a woman who buys her com
plexion at the drug store and puts II
on with trowel.
Some time when get a chance I'm
going through Miranda's top bureau
drawer and pull out her rouge and
powder truck and leave 'em lying
around where my brother can see EN-.
It's a perfect shame for him to be so
deceived and so happy about 1t. 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 1t
to her that is no sign she shouldn't
have been woman enough to refuse it.
Loading my poor brother down with
the expense Of keeping It! Her father
built the garage In the rear Of their
lot to keep It In and she says she
and Henry take all the care OF It
themselves-butt that's no excuse. It's
just genuine. reckless. downright ex-
travagance. and 1t makes me sick.
Why, I'm perfectly sure could have
SIX electrics II I'd ask for 'em, but
Il have too much sense 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 did. She
Just wanted to show OF before my
neighbors and have them plying me
because l didn't have things like my
brothers wife.
/. 80 said; No. thank you, Miranda.
I have my duties at home to attend to.
as a good wife should. and I've no
time to go flying around town. when
might be better employed in darning
my poor husbands socks. who Is work
ing hard at his once said II point
eddy. too. but don't believe she took
II to herself. she's so satisfied with
everything.