The Newark journal., 1912-03-01

q was just thinking. went on Aunt Amelia ','about two girls down at home and wondering why every human man is an exception to the rule. You give any man the sort of girl he ought to like and he backs away and loses his head over the other kind and then expects you to congratulate him on having succeeded in making his whole life miserable
 There were the Green girls. Emma and Bessie, and when you married and went away they were makig mud pies Well, when they grew up if ever there was a selfish bit of humanity it was Bessie Green. She was not indo1ent she was just plain, downright lazy People didn't think much about her faults, though, because her eyes had a trick of sparkling through her lashes at you and she was always ready for any good time that was go- ing
 Emma was just as pretty as Bes- sic, but she was quiet and she didn't look at you through her eyelashes She had great gray eyes as open and clear as lakes and a fashion of seeing down to the bottom of your mind where you had tucked away the dis agreeable part of yourself and thought it hidden. Not that Emma was prig-she was just an exceptionally lovely, sweetminded girl
 Their mother was delicate and Emma used to get up early and see that breakfast was right for father and the boys. Usually Bessie had her breakfast sent upstairs. She said that since Emma was up for breakfast there really was no sense in her get ting up, too. Emma knew how to cook and Bessie frankly said she loathed the kitchen and all concerned with it and would rather live on toast and tea than burn her face and hands and get a headache.
 Emma made herself the prettiest sort of dresses and blouses and Bessie got hers ready-made or hired a dress maker. She said she didn't know how to sew and wasn't ever going to learn
 Tn short Emma spent her time do ing things for other people because she was naturally so generous and sweet she couldn't help it. She had all the virtues of model woman be- sides plenty of good looks, and she was properly modest and retiring When they went out anywhere there might be an older man or so who would hunt out Emma because they had sufficient brains to appreciate her but you ought to have seen the young circle about Bessie.
 Well, after Bessie had driven two men to drink and two others had quar- reled about her and several more had had the blues for months she got en- gagged to the cashier in a bank just because Emma liked him, Oh, no. she didn't marry him-she coolly threw him over when rich man came along. She promptly married the rich man.
 You ought to see her house, She won't bother her head over it. be- cause she says there are servants to do that. Her husband never got a decent meal at home and nothing in the place is ever put away where it belongs. Her husband sews on his own buttons and carries up her break fast to her before he leaves in the morning. If she sheds tears about anything he buys her diamonds. and If she sulks he lets her go to Europe
 "Emma? She married tho bank cashier finally and they are ordinarily happy, You see, like all men who marry good wives, he takes his per fectly run home as a matter of course. Sometimes when he meets Bessie she looks at him through her eyelashes in the old way and his heart thumps."