The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-07-03

persons facet OF course, your head
is small, and that makes your nose
more prominent. But shouldn't feel
so bad about tiff we forget our af-
fiictions so much easier"
well, l think you have a lot OF
nerve to call my nose an affiiction!"
cried the girl with the chocolate.
"You talk as though | we're side
show freak, at the very least! or
course, it has its faults, but 1t Isn't
such an impossible nose, I'd have you
know! / suppose / notice 1t more than
any one else does, and l must say.
Kitty Phipps, that If were you
wouldn't talk"
II suppose you are insituating some
thing about my complexion!" said the
girl in blue serge. You've heard me
mourn over 1t often enough and say
Id give my head If could change 1t.
I'm not claiming to be beauty and
/ know there are sometimes a few
tiny spots on my face"
"Tiny!" cried the girl with the choc-
olates. "My goodness! l never saw
any one with more things the matter
with her face! If 1t Isn't broken out
1t is yellow-spotty or just a gray
brown color"
"Yes, I've noticed that" eagerly
broke in the girl in brown. How
funny Kitty's complexion acts some
times! Did you ever notice that it
gets Just the color OF her hair, SO
she looks all alike? I think 1t is most
curious!"
THE hard part is," said the girl
who was helping dispose of the candy.
that you can't get away from bad
complexion. There isn't thing you
can do to distract attention from 1t,
because 1t is the most prominent
thing"
I'm certainly much obliged to youl"
interrupted the owner Of the COM
plexion that was under discussion.
I'm glad to find out that you regard
me as a human monstrosity! My COM
plexion may not be the finest on earth,
but l guess I'd pass in crowd! 1t
isn't necessary to be an insipid pink
and white to be good looking Art
lists have been known to rave over
the color symphony of girl like mo
all a faint golden-brown, they call it!
They"
Anyhow" said the girl who Was
helping to dispose of the candy, I'm
glad I'm sensible enough to realize
my weak points and not so foolish
as to think I'm a regular Venus!
What I'd like to change is my figure.
l suppose you've Noticed"
"Oh. indeed, we have!" interrupted
the girl in brown. "But l wouldn't
worry over 1t so much OF course, the
fashions are bound to change some
day and l suppose when it's no long
er the style to look like q lath it'll
be bad for you, but just now you're
all right. You're just the thing! Why,
everybody is simply trying to look
shapeless and lank."
'I should think you would be glad"
said the girl with the chocolate, ito
know that you have absolutely no
hips nor any shape at all"
Thank you so much!" tartly said
the young woman under discussion.
"If you can't appreciate figure that
is svelte and willowy l suppose that's
your misfortune! II takes q con-
noisseur to admire some types OF
beauty-types out OF the ordinary!
Since you are beefy and billowy l
suppose in self-defense you have to
run down everybody else! Thank
goodness, am what I ami"
"Well, anyhow" sighed the girl in
brown. barring my hair and eyes, my
complexion and teeth and figure and
ears and nose, think I'm rather good
looking! I'm really sorry for you un-
fortunatasi"