Gilpin observer., 1917-10-18
Comparison

AS TOO DdO grace COuldnt be
here" said the young woman in the
blue linen dress. Everybody of the
old crowd has come but her!"
I'm crazy to see her," chiined in
the woman in the green voile "Sho
married SO much money and I'm al
ways reading about her at Palm Beach
or somewhere. It's like fairy tale"
"Isn't it?" sighed the girl in pink. at
certainly would be easy to be lovely
and serene II one didn't have any
more worries than Grace, and all her
cash to keep the wheels going Some
times get SO tired planning, just plan
ming SO that we can scrape along with
out ending in the debtors prison!"
Every time see her house." said
the young woman in blue linen, "and
then go home to mine 1t makes me
just sick. Whatever is the use? 1
ask Jack. Why, Grace has mill
lion dollars worth Of shrubs and flow
ers on her city lot and we struggle
with one peony bush and bunch of
petunias! felt real gay over our
| ten-by-fifteen garden till l read that
Grace had plowed up her front lawn
for potatoes! Anyone who can hurl
potato patch into the teeth of the pub
lie like that and get away with 1t is
far beyond my class!"
did you ever see such clothes as
those she wears?" sighed the girl in
/ green voile. II read while ago that
Grace had come out advocating econ
omy in clothes while the war lasted
and she said no woman was justified
in paying more than hundred and
she should confine herself to these SIM
pie little things!"
! There was dismal chuckle OF
laughter from the crowd.
"a hundred and fifty!" sighed the
girl in pink. "My good gracious! If
/ ever spent that amount for dress,
I'd feel so guilty that I'd live in sack
cloth the rest Of my life Wouldn't it
be perfectly wonderful to be able to
drop into your dressmaker's and lam
guidly order three or four one hundred
dollar frocks sent home? Just simple
little things for morning wear, you
know! Oh, 1t makes me wild to think
of It.! And she gets all her evening
gowns abroad, and never see her in
the same set Of furs twice, seems to
, mel"
II went there to lunch last winter"
pursued the young woman in blue. II
wish didn't have the feeling when
Grace asked me that she is just being
kind and trying not to drop her old
friends. I don't see at all why she
should fuss with me anyhow, for I'm
nobody socially and there's no denying
she has spent a good deal Of effort
climbing since her marriage. The
j there was a butler who bothered me
! fearfully-l simply never could get
, used to having strange man at my
elbow watching every mouthful ate.
like to know how ever could ask her
to lunch with me-quartered oak
table, luncheon set embroidered by my
sister. and myself the cook and wait
/ ress!
"Oh, 1t wasn't party she invited me
to. There were just her sister and my
self-but you don't like to have people
making comparisons, and how could
she help It? All her new friends are
as rich as she is, and she is used to
everything gorgeous all the time! I
like Grace, too, but If I ask her she'll
think I am just chasing herr
'"That's exactly how feel about It,"
confided the girl in pink. "Tve been
there, too-and somehow I've never
got around to inviting her to my home !"
II guess we could be raging beau
ties, too," added the young woman in
green, "if We could pay to have the
lines massaged away every week-and
didn't have to sit up nights figuring
how in creation we were going to pay
our months bllls!"
"Maybe it's just MS well Grace didn't
come to the reunion" sighed the girl
In blue. gathering her things together.
"We'd have smothered with envy over
her clothes and her car and her chauf-
feur and her imported bull pupil"
The young women in blue and pink
walked slowly homeward rather sub
dued. still turning over the marvellous
life Of their fairy friend. A grimy
little boy in patched clothes and his
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