The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-08-26

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BY CORA WEEM3.

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"As for tnat,' said the girl With the
box OF chocolates, there aro simply
lots OF things about myself that Id
like to change if l had the chance.
Now, I've never liked my nose. AS
a mere child / hated it and since I've
grown up ny feeling in regard TO 1t
is desperately unchristian. It's such
a mean nose-it's too long and IL IS
fat ct the end, and there's 10 way OF
Disgusting it. It's a ruinpus noSe!"
"Oh, mercy" said the girl who was
helping the other girl dispose Of the
candy. Il wouldn't feel that way
about It! Why, after one gets used to
it enc never notices it, really! Con-
stance, If you are careful to keep your
head turned so that people don't get
a profile view"
YES, thatll help a lot" broke in the
girl in blue serge. Looking straight
at you one can't see how fat the tip
of your nose really is, dear. And I've
seen noses SO much worse-all over a
persons face! OF course, your head
Is small. and that makes your nose
moro prominent. But shouldn't feel
so bad about tiff We forget u al
fictions so much easier
well, I think you have q lot o!
nerve to call my nose an afliction!"
cried the girl with the chocolate.
"You talk as though I were a side
show freak, at the very least! OF
course, it has it's faults, but 1t isn't
such an impossible nose, I'd have you
know! I suppose I notice 1t more than
any one else does, and I must. say,
Kitty Phipps, that if I were you I
wouldn't talk"
Il suppose you are insulating some
thing about my complexion!" said the
girl in blue serge. You've heard me
mourn over 1t often enough and say
I'd give my head if I could change it.
I'm not claiming to be a beauty and
I know there are sometimes a few
tiny spots on my face"
TINY" cried the girl with the choc-
olates. "My goodness! 1 V saw
any one with more things the matter
with her face! If it isn't broken out
1t is ye1low-spotty o. just a gray
brown color"
Yes, I've noticed that" eagerly
broke in tina girl in brown. "Eow
funny Kitty's complexion acts some
times! Did you ever notice that it
gets Just tie color Of her hair, go
she looks all alike? I think it is most
c%urious!"
1.-The hard part is" said the girl
who was helping dispose of the candy,
that you can't get away from a bad
complexion. There isn't a thing You
Can do to distract attention from it,
because it is the most prominent
thing"
I'm certainly much obliged to you!"
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 I guess I'd pass in a crowd! It
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 a girl like me-
all a faint gol%den-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.
1 suppose you've noticed"
"Oh, indeed, we have!" interrupted
the girl in brown. "But I wouldn't
worry over it so much. OF course, the
fashions are bound to change some
day and I suppose when it's no long
er the style to look like a 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."
81 should think you would be glad"
said the girl with the chocolate, 'to
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 a figure that
is svelte and .willowyI suppose that's
your misfortune! It takes a con-
noisseur to admire some types OF
beauty-types out Of the ordinary!
Since you are beefy and billowy I
suppose in self-defense you have to
run down everybody else! Thank
goodness. I 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, I think I'm rather good
fooking! I'm really sorry for you un.
,fortunates!"