The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1918-01-09
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old crowd has come but herr
.T'm crazy to see her," chimed In
the woman in the green wolfe. "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 If one didn't have any
more worries than Grace, and all her
cash to keep the wheels going. Some
times I 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?
ask Jack. Why, Grace has mil
lion dollars worth of shrubs and flow
ers on her city lot and we struggle
with one peony bush and bunch of
petunlas! | felt real gay over our
ten-by-ffteen garden till I read that
Grace had plowed up her front lawn
for potatoesl Anyone who can hurl a
potato patch into the teeth of the pub
lie like that and get away with 1t Is
far beyond my classw
"Did you ever see such clothes as
those she wears?" sighed the girl in
green wolfe. 81 read a while ago that
Grace had come out advocating econ
omy In clothes while the war lasted,
aud she said no woman was justified
in paying more than hundred ana
fifty for d gown these days, and that
she should confne herself to these sim
pie little things :"
There was dismal chuckle of
laughter from the crowd.
~ 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 lifel Wouldn't IT
be perfectly wonderful to be able to
drop into your dressmaker's and Ian
euidly order three or four one hundred
dollar frocks sent home? Just simple
little things for morning wear, you
knowi Oh. 1t makes me wild to think
of It'll And she gets all her evening
gowns abroad, and / never see her in
the same set of furs twice, seems to
mew
81 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. 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
luncheon dOilles were real lace and
thore was a butler who bothered me
fearfully-I simply never could get
used 10 having strange man at my
elbow watching every mouthful ate.
Grace didn't seem to mind! And I'd
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
ressi
"Oh, II 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
ms rich as she is, and she is used to
everything gorgeous all the timei |
like Grace, too, but If ask her she'll
lhink l am just chasing herr
That's exactly how l feel about it, -
confided the girl in pink. ''fve been
there. too-and somehow I've never
got around to inviting her to my home y
81 guess we could be raging beau
ties, too" added the young woman in
green. eff 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 blllsi"
maybe it's just as well Grace didn't
come to the reunion" sighed the girl
IN blue, gathering her things together.
wed have smothered with envy over
her clothes and her car and her chauf-
feur and her imported bull pupl"