The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-03-28
FRESH MISS ADAMS
Which Is to Say That She Was
Independent and Also
InsoIent.
ny GRACE kERRIeAN.


Miss Jennie Adams was snippy. Ev-
erybody said so, and she admitted It.
To be snippy means not only to be
independent. but to be insolent as well.
1t means to hounce around. It means
to give man a cold glare II he picks
up your handkerchief. 1t means that
II policeman tells you that Smith
street is only two blocks over you
will walk three blocks over just to
show him that he is not 30 muchy
much. 1t means snubbing the young
men and humiliating the girls.
No one likes q snippy girl, but she
doesn't care a clothes-pin for that.
She likes herself, and that's enough.
Snippy Miss Adams had gone on
being snippy until she had arrived at
the age of twenty. 1t had been pre-
diCted fifty different times, by fifty DIFF
ferent persons that the day would
come when her snippiness would bring
her proud head low, but nothing had
happened yet. Snippiness and some
other things can go on for years and
years without a grand jury getting
after them.
While Miss Adams father was a
suburban banker and always had
enough cash in the vaults TO guard
against run, and while he had an
auto and kept chauffeur, and while
the young lady could have rolled up
Down like a duchess, she always came
and went by the trolley line. At first
people gave her credit for being demo
cratic, but they soon fathomed her
motive. II she journeded by auto she
could only be snippy to the chauffeur.
and he could only speak broken Eng
lish and didn't care what she said or
how pert she acted. II she took the
trolley car there were always at least
seven passengers to notice her and
her snippiness.
One morning at 9 o'clock Miss
Adams took the car to put In a long
day in the shopping districts. A
strange young man took the same car.
She had never seen his face before
and judged him to be new arrival in
the village.
Mr.. Robert McLain was the name
Of the young man who sat opposite
her. He had something to do with q
life insurance company uptown. Yes,
he had just moved out with his moth.
er. He took the trolley because he
had no auto. He merely glanced al
Miss Adams as he took his seat and
began reading his newspaper. Such
an action on the part of young man
was provoking. 1t was more. II
might almost be termed insolence.
Why didn't he steal glances over
the top Of his paper at her?
Why didn't he wonder who she was
and move his feet about to show that
he was wondering?
There was fat woman next tc
him, shoulder to shoulder, and he
could have asked information in q
whisper, but he didn't
The car ran over q dog a mile oI
two out, and Miss Adams gave a lit
tie scream. The young man looked
up, but not at her. He looked at q
vinegar-faced old maid and smiled
She would have snubbed him had hs
smiled at her, and yet she was pro
voked that he didn't.
Miss Adams dropped a niclrle on the
floor. All heard the drop. and al
heard her exclamation. II came to I
rest almost at Mr.. McLain's feet. bu
did he throw his paper aside anC
scramble for itf Not bit Of It,
Four men and two women covered
themselves with glory trying to res
cue that coin from the gratings, ant
the conductor finally came in and di,
the trick. Not the slightest interes
on the part Of the young man. and thu
fat woman beside him noticed tn,
fash OF the girls eyes and said to her
self: