The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-02-23
AS OTHERS SEE US
sy JULIET PORTER.
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DRAsLATIs PERSONAL:
Mrs. Carter, a widow.
Dick Appleton. recent college
graduate.
Clarinda Fame, poor but honest.
PLACE: Anywhere In the United
States.
TIME: Yesterday.
CLARINDA. talking to her friend.
who has run In right after break
fast. to talk over the news): AT last
have a dress that am not ashamed
Of. II is made out Of two old ones,-
Aunt Emille's gray satin and Nell's
blue crepe de chine. 1t is in the most
stylish colors, and modelled on one
exhibited at Celestine's. That awful
spot on the front breadth OF the satin
is concealed under the back draperies.
shall never turn my back to Mrs.
Carter, for she might detect 1t, though
no one else would. Yes, l am going
to the fair this afternoon. A circular
was sent to me, though cannot imag-
Inc why, as everybody knows that
we are poverty stricken-have TO
"skinch and skanch" to get three meals
q day, and positively have nothing
French orphan would look at twice.
'Of course Mrs. Carter win be there,
as she is rich and goes everywhere.
She must be all Of thirty-fve, and
she Is actually setting her cap for
Dick Appleton. 1t is simply atrocious
And she has taken such a dislike to
mel But this afternoon know I
shall look all right.
Yes, am interested In Dick APP
pleton myself, and / think he Ia in
terested In me. He takes pains to
nnd me, and we talk over the days
when we were kids in school, We
went to college the same year, but that
was before dad lost all his money.
Dick is just splendid; he was on the
football team in college, and graduated
"cum laude." and now has that offer
from the st. Louis Construction
company. His sister told me all about
IT,"
MRS. CARTER (writing to her
friend, who needs a secretary: II can
think Of no one but Clarinda Fame. I
have been observing her ever since
knew you wanted a secretary. The
Fanes are all nice people, and Clarinda
is the flower Of the family. She is nat
urally bright, has a fair education,
appears well, and II II were not for
her clothes would be an ornament to
any household. :.
But / like her, she is so gay and
friendly, and frank, and original with
out being caustic.
II have to go to a fair this after
noon, and the most conspicuous thing
there will be Dick Appleton, chasing
after Clarinda."
DICK APPLETON (soliloquizing)
81 shall have to go to that beastly
fair just to please the mater. II is
really her fair, and want it to be a
success. The mater wants me to be
specially polite to all the old ladies
the wall flowers and the skinfiints, and
suchlike folk-especially asked me 10
be nice to Clarinda Fame, or II will
look snobbish. used to try to avoid
her when we were kids, for no boy
likes these intellectual girls.
81 hope that divine Mrs. Carter will
be there; she cannot be more than
twenty-six or twenty-seven. How al
truistic of Mr.. Carter to make her
widow at the most fascinat-
ing age! wonder why she wears
those mosquito netting dresses, inter
spersed with lavender? Can II be
half mourning? II she would only
take lessons of Ciarinda Fame in dress
ing she would be quite all right"
TIME, late afternoon.
CLARINDA (telling mother about
the fair) The very first person i
saw was that stylish Mrs. Carter, and
she had on the loveliest dress II
was black with lavender facings, and
she wore amethysts, and a black
picture hat with lilacs.
II could see that she liked my dress
and could not have suspected that II
was made out Of two old ones that
have been to every social function for
the last two years or more. Dick Ap-
pleton was there, too, but did not
happen to see me until / was about
ready to come home. He heard me
tell Mrs. shelton that l had to leave
early or would have fingered longer"
MRS. CARTER Ito her friend)
Il saw Miss Fame at the fair, dressed
as usual, in an attempt at the latest
style, fashioned out Of two old dresses
we have all known for several years
She has never had a fair chance, and
with a little preliminary oversight.
will make an efficient secretary. A
chance for one of the family to get
decent salary will be a godsend to
them ALL"
DICK APPLETON (soliloquizing)
well, that's over, praise be There
was only one redee ming feature about
the whole show-rtrs. Carter. II she
had been for sale would have bought
her outright She did not seem to
know ! was there ! was just a Gus