The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-29

SidCiOus. says l. not hHOWlDS
what else to say.
well, she's a-going to have some" con-
tinued Sally grimly, and what's more,
she's a-going to wear 'em.
I've found out one thing about thai
girl--she's got pride-not the proper kind
but she can't bear for nobody to laugh
at her nor her folks. You jest watch
out Arabela: I'm a-going to work out
Corinne's salvation by that pride--and
save the respecxtabillity of Snagg June
tion-for Snagg Junction amt use to no
such apparyel as Corinne gets herself up
in"
How you going about it, Sally2" says
[, reel curyous
Sally folded up her sewing making
readily to go, and remarked, did you
ever hear of a old saying that the hair
of the dog is good for the bite?" And
she left, leaving me in the dark and reel
mistyfde.
Come the next Wensday they was going
to be a church socierble in the school
house grove-give by the Ladies Ade for
the benefit of the preachers sallery. They
was ice cream and cake, Is cents for a
sauser and three slices, and benches
arranged all about in the grove for the
young couples to set on besides leven
Japanese lanterus, and five tables for
refreshments with vases of flowers on
eln, and happery-mash sausers in the
shape of shells for the ice cream, ordered
from Trentville.
The young folks was making 1t a reel
stylish affare, and everybody took q in
terest and the whole Junction turned
out.
Polly went with the new teacher, Young
Mr.. Helnlocll, who had took the summer
school Me and Corinne went along with
en- Sally decideing she wouldn't go, and
the Perfesser being very busy anerlyzing
the hind-legs of Junebug
The Perfesser never reckernized no So
cial obligations, so nothing wasn't ex-
pected of him, but was surprised clear
through at Sally Snodgrass. 1t warnt
like her to stay away. ..
Sally she's reel sosiety by nature. She
goes to all the fires and funerals, and
She amt missed Ladies Ade meeting or
secierble since the time the Perefessor
got q wasp up his trowsers while he was
ohaseing a bug down in the clover patch,
and prevented ner going
So l jest set 1t down to her being SO
mQrtifioe over the way Corinne. was
dressed, and I felt sorry for Sally.
All of Corinnes whole costoom wouldn't
of made a good sized cheese cloth dust
rag. 1t was so thin you could actually
see the shape of the hooks on her cosset,
and the lacing strings of it in the back
and SO narrer that she looked like she
had both feet in a pants leg.
Corinne she's one of these girls that no
matter how quiet and sensible they may
be ackting when theys only women
around turns fool -immegetly the mint
man appears. So she eommenst at
once ackting up to young Mr.. Hemloc1
airyer than a electric fan, asting him IL
1t wasn't lovely to teach school? And
wouldn't he like for her to be his assist
ant? And trying to walk on the other
side of him jest the same as If he warn't t
Polly's beau.
Polly didn't care, but I warnt going
to let her be done out of her beau like
that, so I oatched holt of Corinnes arm
and helt on to her, and made her walk
behind with me.
1t was jest the same way when we
got to the school grove. Jest as soon as
Corinne and any young man was intro
duced. she lit in immegetly and gal
luped out of near casual acquaintance
into reel intimate friendship like they
had made mud-p pies when they was little
and growed up together Things like them
amt done in Snagg Junction and no.
body didn't think it was neither funny
nor cute.
Corinne amt one of the kind that be-
ing cute Is becoming to- She weighs too
much. The most becoming thing for Co.
rinne would of been jest quiet CONVEX
sation, or to set carmly and croshay. But
Corinne never done neither.
She put me in mind of a girl I use
to know in me and Sally Snodgrasses
young days. Becky Pearson was her
name.
Now Becky was reel nice. sensible girl
about some things and she was smart
about sewing and housekeeping and she
was kind and good-hearted. and she had
fair education.
If she had jest followed her naturel
naf1Ira she'd nf hpan oil ipl,f Io,,t
got the idear in her head that she was
cute, and she tried to ack that way.
You see Becky hadn't learnt that cute
folks, like poets, has got to be born,
not made. And Becky wasn't born cute
She was born fat.
And her little airyish ways wasn't no
more cute than COW prancing about
could be called cute-and more than that,
the effeck on people was paneful.
But Becky never knowed it.
When she talked her fave never did
stop a-twisting, nor her sholders a-jerk-
ing; and though she was the best hand of
any of us for making jelly or hemming
sheets, jest let a man come around and
immegetly Becky turned fool. The way
she gushed and carried on was a sight!
She'd get so airy that If she hadn't of
weighed a hundred and fifty-something.
she'd of riz right up in the atmosfere
and floated Off
Ards he's pertend she didn't know now
to do nothing, but was jest a frivolous
little helpless butterfly, and she'd kinder
cling to all the men, and make eyes at
EN- like they was some secret UNDER
standing between 'em, when they warn't.
Becky thought it made her appear SO
attractive, and that it give her the name
of being such a fiirt.
That was what she was aiming to do
to be considered firt. OF coarse, 1t
never did turn out well with nobody.
Men don't like to be gushed over NY
experients with 'em Is that playing the
fool is there own speshal perogative, and
they don't want no woman a-butting-in
on there naturel rights and quallerfica-
tions.
If they's any gushing or playing the
fool to be done, men wants to be the
ones that does it.
All they asts of the girls is to giggle and
swaller everything man says to 'em,
and to jest set back and be fooled.
They wants to do all the gushing and
running after--me having often been a
eyewitness to seeing them do It,
Now, of course, the boys and men use
to try to be perlite to Becky, but It
went hard with EN-, and everybody
laughed at her, and even her best friends
had way Of saying. ''Oh. Becky's all
right. except she's fool"
Well las I was saying, Corinne put me
in mind Of Becky, the way she was put
ting on aires and setting up to every
man at the sooierble. and having every
body laughing at her when she thought
she was being so cute and attractive.
But Corinne being built like Becky use
to be-that is. with her weight she could
of easy carried six or seven more inches
of hight--well, it warnt so cute after ALL
And just when Corinne was ackten her
foolishest, the climacks of that party hap
pened
Sally Snodgrass walked in all unex-