South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-29
By
Anna Loring

/ 10 dress with little bit OF snap and
have bit OF dash 10 your manner
20 get anywhere at all. I don't see
why she can't see II. She's smart In
| every other way"
That's why she doesn't do It."
| answered her father It's because
| she is smart"
"Oh, know how old people feel %
/ declared Alice with a pout. But
you don't understand how Young
men have changed IL isn't our
/ fault that they are different. When
| Corinne came out in her new spring
clothes consisting OF a black sailor
| hat a gray homespun suit Jim
said she was really more conspicu-
/ Gus than any Of us just because she
/ was so plain. But I told him that
/ II she was IL wasn't her fault. She'd
have a At IL she thought she was
| attracting any attention. The rea-
son I'm talking so much abou. il is
! that Dick Corey was at the club to-
| day and ! introduced him 10 Corin-
ne, and there was her chance. For
really she is pretty, and I'd love to
see her married to some nice, rich
good looking chap like Dick and
show some Of these girls around
/ here that she's Of better clay than
| they-and she is. too. We all know
| how blue blooded Corinne really is.
But she sneaks off I'm a corner and
hides. and I'd give that for her
| chances now" Swapping her I'm
gers. But l have a little plan. and
I'm going to help along her inter
ests II / can. No. I'll not tell any
] body till we see how il works. but
I'm going 10 get busy"
Alice met Dick the next morning
on the train as she was returning
from a shopping trip and managed
to sit beside him. Adroitly she
brought the conversation to COrin-
ne. II seemed ridiculously easy.
Dick really seemed anxious 20 talk
about her.
You see, the trouble with Corinne
is, said Alice confidentially, that
she has that innocent. unsophisti-
Gated look that rather bOres one if
he doesn't know her"
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and was apparently all attention.
That's a good start" thought
Alice. Make a girl mysterious,
devilish. any old thing. and man
will sit up and at least take notice"
She went on aloud, But that's the
trOuble-sO few people know Corin-
ne as / do. She's really anything
but unsophisticated, and her life
reads like a book. She can't help il
II her youth was blighted. But,
never mind, that was long ago, and
although things were against her, I
know it was not her fault And
then, there was that other affair i'm
Paris before the war broke out.
Oh. dear Who'd have thought IL
Of Corinne? You see, she isn't un-
sophisticated at all; she's just sati-
ated. tired of il all. She's blase!
That's what she ISL
"What-what's all this you are
telling me?" asked Dick finally.
when he had sufficiently recovered
his voice and could get a word in.
Alice looked at him in wonder
His face was a study in indigna-
ton.
Il was just telling you about
Corinne. I wanted you 10 be in
terested. and everybody seems to
think she's so quiet and unimport-
ant" And then impulsively. Il
,, love her that's what, and I've been
| trying 10 make some one sit up and
take notice. I'm tired of having
people think she's a little church
housed"
Thank you. Miss Alice" said
| Dick quietly. Il believe you're
stanch. but your method is odd,
that's all. Corinne and I have been
engaged since she was in New York
last fall and we are TO he married
next week. She hates to he con-
spicuous. so we decided TO keep II
quiet"
And Alice has not quite straight
ened II all out yet. She never told
any one how il worked. Moreover,
she has decided that she is no
match for Corinne and she's learn
ed to be careful of what she says.