The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-10-06
THE GIRL WHO WON
A MATRIMONIAL PRIZE

lady who was visiting from the small
town. About girls, that is. Take
Rosina MUIR, for example. For one
thing, she was prettier than that Miss
McElroy you were all raving about
last night so madly."
impossible" said the chorus
There couldn't be any one prettier
than Kate McElroy! Why, she's a
perfect. natural blonde!"
well, Rosina was ten times more
natural" declared the old lady firm
ly. "She was the kind that looks as
though she had been made out OF
roses and cream and peaches. And
she had heaps Of hair that was so ca
nary yellow that all her life her lit
tie brother had to lick all the boys In
town who said that their sisters said
she touched 1t up and blondined It.
1t really was unfortunate hair, be-
cause 1t looked 30 gloriously impos-
sible. She had the figure Of an ad-
vertisement lady and a cheerful dispo-
sition and father with money. In
short, kos.-o was calculated to drive
every other woma.- - hopeless voice
less rage because 1t just wasn't pos
sible to equal her at all.
1T seemed that she had every
thing-every advantage as to material
things as we'll as to looks. No other
girl had a bit Of chance when Rosina
MUIR was around-but as she was a
generous, good-natured girl, she work
ed hard trying to distribute her ador-
ers among the wall-fowers. The cat
ty ones said that she did 1t only
because she didn't want them herself,
but think Rosina ought to have the
credit for going to all the trouble, any
how. There WASN'T a man In town
she couldn't have married. If she had
wanted to, 30 naturally she stayed sim
gle.
Nearly all the other girls Of her
age got married eventually to the
man who tired of waiting for Rosina
70 change her mind. She outgrew the
fluffy stage, where all a girl demands
Of a man Is that he be good looking
and happen along at the time. She
was witty, too, and It took smart
man to keep up with her. We decided
It would not be any ordinary man
that Roslna MUIR would make up her
mind to marry.
THE summer that Judge Wagners
brother came to recover from typhoid
we thought she had met her fate. Mr..
Wagner was tall and distinguished
looking and lawyer and had travelled
abroad and Just to look at him you
knew he would be perfectly at home
II the toastmaster called on him un-
expectedly for speech
Judge Wagner's brother took to
Rosina Immediately and seemed to
think that she was the right medicine
for a typhoid patient. Anyway, you
rarely saw her when he wasn't along.
And she seemed to enjoy It, too. I
never saw her look prettier or laugh
more or put herself out more to be
than she did when with
him.
I'VE had the wedding all planned
and the girls who knew they'd surely
be asked to act as bridesmaids had
decided ON the color Of their gowns
and then Mr.. Wagner went away
rather abruptly and Rosina smiled on.
One Of the girls asked her If she
iidn't like him and Rosina said he
was perfectly fine and she had so en-
oyed her summer. She didn't seem
% realize how mad and disappointed
We all were with her.
ut was Just the same when James
Miller came to visit his sister for a
week and stayed a month. He was
In stocks in Chicago and |
one Of those dark, clever men who
scare you, but he didn't scare Rosina.
She sparkled at him and he became |
a groveling worm. He was
Ter slave and not only did he not care
Who knew it, but he wanted to shake
n the publics face the chains that
,ound him.
HE had heaps Of money and we
hought how fine it would be for Ro-
ina to be able to go in the best city
ociety and have limousine. She al
Ways did have beautiful clothes, but
low no doubt shed have whole er-
nine wraps and never wear the same
ress twice. But Mr.. Miller also de-
arted abruptly-and Rosina smiled
n.
People scolded awfully about II.
he was getting older each year and
ven her beauty would not last for
ver-and what on earth did the girl
,ant? She had had chances that
lost girls never come within reaching
istance Of and each one she tossed
verboard. We said she would end
y picking out some one who was no
ccount and that 1t would serve her
Ight. There's the old proverb about .
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