Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-14

The girl in a purple suit made & thin line of her lips. "Oh, yes,'' she said, her voice betraying restraint Dorothy Mccoy may be a very lovely character and all that as you say-I am sure I don't want to say anything against any one-but personally I've no use for person who can treat her friends as she doesi''
 why. the ideal" gasped the girl in mahogany peplin. T thought you and Dorothy couldn't live without eacn other! You are always together"
 Were" corrected the girl in purple emphatically. T never was so dis appointed in anybody as I've been in Dorethyi It isn't that I cared partic- ularly for George, but the baIefaoed way in which she--Tea1ly. 1t makes me boil to talk about it! If there is any thing 5isgraceful it is deliberately schening to get away another girls friendsi Especially her man fr-iendsi l am of a very trusting disposition, as you know. and never suspected!
 What did she dD?" asked the girl in mahogany poplin.
 She didn't do anything!" flashed the girl in purple indignantly She just sat back helpless and fragile looking and in one week had George trotting around like mad waiting on her!
 
 You know, George always told me how he admired brilliant, capable women who did things in the world and shared responsibilities and all that" explained the girl in the purple suit, and at great inconvenience to myself I temporarily became capable. I even opened doors for myself when George was along and never waited for him to take nay arm and pilot me across a street in security
 "No l wasn't in love with George or anything of the sort, but naturally girl likes to be popular with her friends. And after that man hao talked like that you never would be- lieve possible the way in Wh1cn ne fell fer Dorothy. He called her delicate little creature-she Welsnls 150-and remarked that it reused aii a mans protective instincts to have a woman depend on him so absolutely ATf you could have seen how she would raise her eyes to him, Jus1 ike a rapturous. aderning child! Wny' George would fairly purri
 And all the time he had been tell ing me how a man liked a woman who stood on level ground with him and was his comradei Comrade! DorothS gazed upward at his superior inteiil- gence as a mere worm would look u9 to a giraffe! And he liked it! He never saw me after Dorothy began! He forgot I was on earthi She's per fectIx welcome to him because d6n's care a bit about him only T don't see that it was so much hef l fault said the girl in mahogany pop 1 lin, @as it was Georges"
 My goodaessi' cried her friend. l guess if she hadn't deliberately iuree l him he never would have looked al 1 hert Only how she could have knoWr 1 he didn't mean at all what he sa1a tt 1 me about his ideals of women. l can, ! not guess. I call it horribly sneaxy Not that I care anything aDeul l George. but I have no use for glr l who could do thing like thai! IL ls l so entirely different from my way ol i treating my friends! I like people who play fair and honest and above boardi'
 T thoroughly agree with you. sale 1 her friend in mahogany popiin. II was mean of her. But. then. you neVe1 1 can tell about people"
 l .T should think their conscience would trouble thena," said the girt II l the purple suit severely They cer- 1 tainsy cannot be happy when they of 1 underIland things like that. sup pose that if we knew the truth Dor l othy is awGuiIy uncomfortable aeou 1 the way she has actedi When yol 1 win & man by stealth. so to speak, yot ! never can be quite sure or him! 1. must destroy your peace of mind ut ] terlyt I am certain that do not env' 1 Dorothy-and to see her go by II i Georges new machine you would
 think she was the queen Of Sheba a 1 leastt Thank goodness, l am not to' proud to take a street car ana no 1 work my friends!"