The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-08-13
FINDING
THE BEST
COSMETIC
BY GRACE BLANCHARD

uCSicc tHdl he very llreQ Glrl
of the story was by comparison as
fresh as q daisy. She was also "hard
up" to such an extent that instead of
going for a de luxe eclair she stopped
In a nearer place for glass of but
termilk. She felt she looked so old
short of calamity If she ran across
anybody who knew her. especially
well, yes, especially Roger Beck
Ugh How she disliked that sour
glassful; but If it was the best nour-
ishment for the least money Per-
haps now she would mind the sultri-
ness of the day less; that was rather
a sickening Whit Off the perfumery
bottles, though, and here at the cos
metic counter was crowd which she
must skirt in order to get to an exit
What were those women gaping at?
Such a drab, dreary lot Of rights as
they were-heavens That was her
own face she had seen in a mirrorl
Miss Trescott found herself hemmed
in by the fast increasing group and
also pushed to the front of 1t. All
That was what they were so frantic
to sea clerk displaying the efficacy
of her wares by dolling herself up
with them.
you can take 1t from me, ladies,
these articles are all as advertised.
I'm forty years old and l have q fam
lily to support. got to looking so
woebegone that l knew no one would
hire me unless / helped nature out a
bit; and ever since l tried this (on
went a layer of cold creamy 1 have
felt 1t Is not the end of perfect day
If haven't told some sister how she
can, in ten minutes, look ten years
younger Watch mel" Whereupon a
sitting Of powder was followed by a
suspicion Of rouge.
Murmurs of admiration began to be
heard from the crowd.
"And don't forget your eyebrows,
ladies; make them arched as ! am
making mine-very light touch, re-
member. If you have a pencil like
this you will not blunder as my friend
did one Sunday morning.
"She thought her face hadn't any
expression, and so she tried to add
some, but In her haste she caught up
an indelible pencil, with the result
that she appeared in church with pur-
pie eyebrows.
"Oh-and use a lipstick, of course.
You can borrow your daughters!
ThereI' And she turned away from
the mirror before which she had been
standing while she worked, and
bowed gayly as the women broke into
applause and laughter.
"Who else wants to be prettied up? |
1 will make up somebody free of |
charge. You have good possibilities
good features" She gazed straight |
at Kate Prescott, and K. T. (Katee) as
her intimates called her, walked right |
into the hands Of the convincing
demonstration.
Twenty minutes later there stepped
out of the stores side door a young
lady, who paused as if trifle dazed,
then rapidly walked up Beacon street,
glancing neither to right nor left.
But one of the city's ~rising physi-
clans. Doctor Beck, striding along on
the other side to his office, looked
across and looked again, and ejac-
ulated to himself:
well, I'd forgotten what peach
that girl is"
And In about half an hours time
the telephone rang in the state-hOuse
department where she was substitute
ing for week, and voice asked for
Miss Trescott
ooh, that's you, isn't it? Don't
you bow to your friends any more?
Oh, yes, you did but 1 don't wonder
that blooming young lady would cut
a wilted old medic. What do you
say to cooling off by going down the
harbor? Round trip-just stay on
deck and get breath of air. I know
a place where they put up first-rate :
lunches to take out, and I'll buy some
On my way to the car. Meet me at
he subway entrance by quarter of
I've? Good, X. T."
For Kate, who had wondered how
she could bear for hours the inspec-
ion of doctors keen eyes, had end ,
ID by accepting the invitation de-
ightedly, and by going out and buy
ng herself yard of something In
which to mask herself.
All the world and his wife were i.
motoring that hot, late aft
for the steamboat carried
few passengers, and
Doctor Beck and Miss Trescott had
he breezy bow to themselves. She
Iao to stand considerable chatting as
O her persistence In being yelled
ady.
"Wbat's the good of seeing that fine
unset darkly?" Doctor Roger leased
though, If l had complexion like
ours I'd save It," he ended gal Il
sntlys and Kate felt herself blushing r
utility through her war paint. e
"You cannot eat through those b
leshes though" he declared later, p
7hen he produced the lunch boxes, a
apping them as he remarked: II il
ave the requisite calories here, and p