The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-02-21

MY sskes,- she gasped. = expected
20 look the same IN this bat as she
Slowly turning. she looked abou;
her at the array OF elegance she hac
Just released from the boz. Pointing
a finger she said slond: That ceriss
satin. now. | bought I, because that
blond model who tried IL on was
such beauty IN IL. That wrap came
on a wax figure that was near enough
like Fanny TO be her own image.
These blouses I got for the same rea-
SON" Her thoughts went back wildly.
Why. I've always bought things IN
just this way-because they looked
good on somebody else. And that's
Why they've never looked anyhow on
me. When Fanny walked in with that
blue hat on | said 10 myself that N ere
VAS the very hat l wanted. had a
notion Id look in Il just the way
! wouldn't She must have laughed
in her sleevs. But then she got her
money. and land knows she needs IT,
wish Id never seen the hat. Its
sh owed me up 70 myself. ! guess I'm
the biggest kind OF a living fool. float
ing around in silks and sa;ins that
didn't become me no more than a
peacock's feathers would become Il
goose"
She dropped into a chair and cover.
ed her little worn out face with her
two homely hands. She did not weep
because she never wept over any
thing. but the soul within her seemed
TO wiring out tears. Presently she lift.
ed her face. L had decided she
thought. ito wear that cerise satin
10 Carrie Perkins party tonight.
could Just see every woman there
looking at me in envy and Franklin
Furber looking at me in some other
had n has hnsA sob
TO that cerise satin somehow. I sup
pose I'm fool TO think about him az
all, but | used TO like him when we
went TO school together and-and I've
never got over IL. The first thing I
thought when ] got my money was
that now | could make myself attract
I've enough SOS he'd notice me. But
he never has in spite OF all my silks
and satins. Right here and now 7
give up and accept my old maiden
Woodland loneiiness-and nobody 10
spend my money with"
Anegline gulped once. Then she
rose and began TO put the things back
into the box. The cerise satin went
IN first and on top OF il the French
blouses. the clicked hose and the mar
Nelous wrap with it's youthful outline.
She tied the box securely. then touch
Ing bell she summoned a messenger.
Take this 10 Mrs. Herman Johns. No.
~ AtdEl dNfnut. sDt ulTtcteQ.
moment later she was at the
phone calling up Fanny. This you.
Fan? This is Angeline-Angeline Halt
Hotel Woodford. you know. Yes. Fan.
ny, I'm sending YOU something by mes
senger. Don't say n word. Just accept
II. And when you wear EN- see that
you look your prettiest. That's all.
No. | can't explain. Good-by."
She hung up the receiver. laughing
in an odd. shaky way And now the
question Is. since I've given away my
new buds, what am / going TO wear
tonight? They'll all be looking for n
sensation. I'll give them one. but not
Just the kind they're looking for. And
maybe can convince them that some
fools don't stay so. Maybe | can" she
thought.
An hour later the telephone bell
rang. and over the wire throbbed an
excited little voice. Angelina" il
said, I've been through that box-to
the very bottom. You cant mean
'em all for me You can't. Angelina.
I've got that satin on this minute.
guess I'm crazy. I've knocked over
four chairs and broken a looking glass
/ never had any clothes like these.
even when ! was married and ma put
a mortgage on the house TO get me a
trosseau. Angelina. yor angel, But
yon don't mean I'm to keep EN-"
Keep 'em and welcome" replied
Angeline dryly.
She was late entering Mrs Perk-
ms parlors that evening. Every
was there before her. The FIRST thing
she saw was Fanny Johns. radiant in