Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1913 — WOMAN AND HER DEAR FRIENDS [ARTICLE]

WOMAN AND HER DEAR FRIENDS

I “That’s Leone Fletcher over at the farther tabled* said the girl with the gold bracelet “She has on another new hat” The girl who matched in brown from her head to her feet looked and gasped. “Well, I never!** she said, indignantly. “If that isn’t just about z the end ox the limit! ' That hat of hers is an exact copy of mine that I showed her last week! And I said I didn’t 1 intend wearing it iintil i went away! And she knows my milliner and has got on like it and is wearing it before any one sees mine and “ she ended almost in tears. “Everyone will think it was I who did the copying!’’ “That’s Leone all over," sympathized the girl with the bracelet “I owe her a score that I shan’t forget in a hurry. She asked me to dinner one night and used up all her time telling me how glad she was that Dick seemed so fond of me. She said he was a splendid fellow and I was just the kind of girl he ought to fall in love with and she hoped I’d not throw him over, because that happened. to him once and he took it very hard. Then she sighed appropriately to make me understand that she was the girl who had broken Dick’s heart long ago.. But it didn’t touch me, for I knew all the while that she had been breaking her neck for ages to get him to look at her.

“Ever since his unde took Dick into the firm,*’ the girl with the bracelet, “and up an automobile and joined twtaar three clubs, Leone has been laying her little traps. I didn’t Quite see why she should take such an abnormal amount of trouble to assure me that she approved of his friendship for me. Not that I have the slightest idea that Dick is serious— —” “Oh, of course not,” agreed the girl in brown. “Still, there’s no reason why he shouldn’t be,” flared up the girl with the bracelet. “Well, Leone took the most beautiful sisterly attitude you ever saw. I really wanted to have it photographed and framed. When 1 left I said I was going to shampoo my hair the'next morning and she added that she always envied me my hair. That should have made me suspicious, but I am naturally trusting. “The next mo'rnlng when I had just got through rinsing my hair the bell rang and before the maid could come upstairs Leone called up to me. “ ’lt’s I, Dolly,’ she said in her sweetest voice. T want to see you just a minute, Can’t you run down? I’m in a hurry to catch a train.’ / “Well, you know how lovely and altogether bewltchln a girl looks whose hair is sopping, soaking wet. I don't set up to be a beauty, but when my hair is waved and dressed I admit it is my chief attraction —and Dick always admired its blonde color so. But just then, ylth the water all through is my chief attractions —and Dick allank and dripping as seaweed. Still, I didn’t want Leone to lose her train, so I wrung my hair as dry as I could, threw a Turkish towel around my shoulders—l bad on my oldest morning jacket, naturally—and hurrried down.

“Ther- >x> the library sat Leone in a distracting golf costume, with an entra successful marcel wave and pompadour and the loveliest tinge of rose on her cheeks—really she is getting to be an artist with drug-store color—and across the rooijj sat Dick! He looked as 1 astonished as I felt and the furniture whirled around with me, such were my emotions. “If I had tried perhaps I could have made myself look worse, but I doubt it. Nobody knows that my nose is large when my hair is fluffed out or that the curve of my cheekbones is too prominent when they are shaded by my pompadour, but I’ve no doubt Dick made the discovery on the spot as I stood there a living Image of rags and despair. “ ‘Oh!’ Leone said, still in her sweet -voice, looking angelically pitying, *1 wasn't in such a hurry as all that! f called to ask you to go golfing with Dick and myself, but of course I see you can’t get ready In time. I think it Is such a good plan always to be dressed ready to start anywhere at a moment's notice. I always am and ft is such a comfort. Well, we must be running on. Good-bye, dear!” “Then she dragged Dick away, leaving me still opening and shutting my mouth, doing the stranded mermaid act “Did you ever hear of anything more fiendish T It all looked so accidental to Dick—and even If ft were explained to him, being a man, he never would see the fine points of Leone’s diabolical scheme.

‘“Always dressed!’ It takes her three hours to get ready to take a street car!”

“Here she comes,” said the girl tn browti, hastily. “How becoming that bat la to you, Leone! It hides your high forehead so nicely! I gave mine to the laundress,!" “You were wise,” responded Leone sweetly. “It takes a striking type of girl to wear this style effectively. I must hurry, as I am to meet Dick for the matineel” “Oh," said the girl with the bracelet, raising her eyebrows. "I am so glad you are going! Poor Dick was so disappointed when he asked mo and I had to refuse him. I told him I was sure ho could get you to go,” “There," said the gold-bracelet gM, as Leone floated away, “we gave her goaratbiiu to ‘think about.” .

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