Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1912-02-15
Saint Maru's Beacon
TELLING
THINGS


Don't you perfectly dote on dreas
you have had good things inf' cried
the girl with the blush-rose compiler
Ion, draping an affair Of silvery tissue
tenderly over hanger and pinning .
sheet round about.
The other girl disentangled sixhairl
pins and jeweled clasp from her net
before she spoke. Il surely do. DEAR
she replied "They get to seem al
most human, don't theyf The hoo
dooer are just as bad as the other kind
hre delightful-the gowns that you sim
ply cannot have decent evening in.
though you bought them at the very
best place in town and have done
everything to them you can think Of
to break the spell"
"Uh-huhl" agreed the blush-Fose girl
pagerly, her lips hampered by pins.
TITS no use trying to change the luck
of them, though you do everything.
from wearing them the very first night
Jack is back from the Philippines 70
tlapping them about at the Country
u ON purpossi"
y wonder. though" murmured tho
other girl, pensively, sitting down on
The edge Of the bed.
What, dear2" asked the blush-rosa
girl encouragingly.
"oh, nothing, believe / won't say
It. Only, do you ever think of the rec
sons for your getting different parts Of
Jour wardrobe? The occasion, you
bnow, that seemed to call for n new
party wrap. though afterward you real
pze that you might just az well have
worn the old one and saved your money
FOR the house party sxpenseaf And
whenever you wear that wrap after.
ward you remember how disappointing
IT all was for q minute"
"oh, yes" chimed in the blush-ross
girl. But you really didn't have 10
get that party wrap for the great Mira.
smith-Popsons box party. because it
wasn't that sort Of box party At all; Il
was only an informal little AFFAIR. The
real reason you blew in your dollars
WAS that your hostess' nephew came
back to town the week before and
Everybody said"
Stop this instant, you little WITCH"
gasped the other girl You are y
perfect clairvoyanti"
"Just a guess, my DEAR" placidly re-
Burned the blush-rose girl, pinching an
eyebrow into a tidier line. we all
do It. But never thought before how
u applies to everything one possesses.
Why, you could go straight through
your things and If you were perfectly
honest, cross-your-heart, how many
pieces could you find that you got just
TO be In READINGS for the season or
20 look as we'll az the other girlaf
. always wait / do believe, until
have a special reason"
But It is the last thing any girl
would be really honest about" muir.
INJURED the other girl, feeling In the
writing desk for her shoe-tress.
"Of course. | was so cross the 9th
pr night at the Whitbys when | caught
myself wishing / hadn't broken my
neck to get my bracelet back from the
repair shop. upset the entire fam.
Hly about getting II in time; left fa,
Eher biting his lips, Bob slamminE the
door and mother shocked and unhappy
because sister Jane called me q selfish
pig. The term hardly seemd to Apply
or was that just my oonceiti And
then suddenly 1t occurred to me that
the whole disturbance was because Of
that silly remark somebody made, and
Rou repeated TO me, about my rounded
waistl And not think came Of I'll
One feels SO humiliated!"
II know" murmured the other girl.
rAnd the weird thing you do when you
are under a particularly foreign iniSu.
ence. II IL a wonder everybody does
mt see through you. Like getting q
pale-blue lingerie hat 70 wear once,
BUST once, because certain person ap-
proves of fluffy girls, when you know
perfectly well It isn't your style, and
pou viii never dare to wear II
again.
But 1t was almost worth H." aho
added, absently, smiling into her 70
tiOotion.