The Prescott daily news., 1913-01-25
THE GIRL WHO WON
 A MATRIMONIAL PRIZE

town. ADOuC glrlS, that ls. ldho Rosina Murr. 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 perfect, natural blonde!"
 Well, Rosina was ten times more naturall" 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. It really was unfortunate hair, be- cause it looked so gloriously impos- sible She had the figure of an ad- vertisement lady and cheerful dispo- sition and a father with money. In short. Rosina was calculated to drive every other woman to hopeless, voice. less rage because it just wasn't pos sible to equal her at all.
 Tt seemed that she had every. thing-every advantage as to material things as we'll as to looks. No other girl had bit of chance when Rosina Murr was around-but as she was generous, good-natured girl, she work ed hard trying to distribute her ador- CTS among the wall-flowers. The cat ty ones said that she did 1t only because she didn't want them herself, but I 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, so naturally she stayed sin gle.
 Nearly all the other girls of her age got married eventually to the man who tired of waiting for Rosina to change her mind She outgrew the fluffy stage, where all girl demands of a man is that he be good looking and happen along at the time. She was witty, too, and it took a smart man to keep up with her. We decided 1t would not be any ordinary man that Rosina Murr would make up her mind to marry.
 "The summer that Judge Wagner's brother came to recover from typhoid we thought she had met her fate Mir. Wagner was tall and distinguished looking and a lawyer and had travelled abroad and just to look at him you knew he would be perfectly at home if 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. never saw her look prettier or laugh more or put herself out more to be charming than she did when with 1 him.
 "We 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 MT. Wagner went away rather abruptly and Rosina smiled on. One of the girls asked her If she didn't like him and Rosina said he was perfectly fine and she had so en- | joyed her summer. She didn't seem 1 to realize how mad and disappointed we all were with her
 Tt was just the same when James Miller came to visit his sister for week and stayed a month. He was something 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 instantly groveling worm Te was her slave and not only did he not care who knew it, but he wanted to shake in the public's face the chains that bound him.
 He had heaps of money and we thought how fine 1t would be for Ro- sina to be able to go in the best city society and have limousine. She al- ways did have beautiful clothes, but now no doubt she'd have whole CT mine wraps and never wear the same dress twice. But MT. Miller also de- parted abruptly-and Rosina smiled on.
 People scolded awfully about it. She was getting older each year and even her beauty would not last for ever-and what on earth did the girl { want? She had had chances that 1 most girls never come within reaching distance of and each one she tossed overheard. We said she would end by picking out some one who was no account and that it would serve her Aht. There's the old proverb about