Show Why This Girl Says Pleasant Things I Examiner I always make it a point to say pleasant things about the other I girls said the girl in the sailor hat j I does sound better doesnt it returned re-turned the girl in the poke bonnet I isnt so much that dear the fact is that Im superstitious about I If I allow myself to say anything mean about a girl something always happens to make me sorry Why last summer we were staying at a quiet country place and one of the girls was all the time complaining com-plaining that there were no young men planinb about Finally I got tired and told somebody some-body that it wouldnt do her any good If there were dozens With the result that the first man who appeared 1 fell in love with her I know Xo dear he was her brother He began to pay attention when she promptly prompt-ly l told him that I was engaged Ah well if it was tre But it wasnt He happened to know I a man who well who had gone so far as to ask me If I thought a married man ought to spend all his evenings at home I They met not long afterward talked of me and the consequence was that I lost I them both because I had said a mean thing about another girl Mercy that was bad luck Why Yes and one day not long ago I said I didnt blame Sue for wearing false hair that Id do it myself if I had as little as she ltle And what did she say about you In return Nothing dear She merely hunted up a photograph of me taken in the street dress of six years ago and hung i up I in the parlor Then she invited Dick Freshly to call But I dont see I had told him that I only got out of boarding school two years ago dear Upon my word that was a mean trick Did that break you Of saying mean things Not quite You remember how attentive that rich I Mr Goldle was to Julia last year dont you youSeems to me I do but Well I got a good chance to tell him about Charley and I did The consequence conse-quence was that he proposed to me instead in-stead and II accepted him But I dont see any bad uck in Dont you He lost every cent in the world six weeks later and I think how much nicer at would have been to have that happen to Julia Instead of me Of course it would but Yes Well the next thing I did was merely to remark that since axle had tried everything else on her face she might use a Htte soap and water After that she refused to have anything to do with me I know then she went abroad and became be-came engaged to a count Yes and only think if we had remained re-mained intimate all the papers in town would have interviewed me on the subject sub-ject of marriage Yes and you might have aired all her past history in the most friendly way I know Well as if that was not enough I told Mr Greener that the flush upon Helens cheek was a great deal prettier than i was natural Well I am sure it was true anyhow so Yes but Teddys mother to whom I had been mild and meek heard me say it and decided that a daughterinlaw with such I tongue would not be pleasant antOh Oh but what difference did her opinion make anyhow A great deal in this case dear She will not give eddy that house in Thirty fifth street if he marries me and I will not marry him unless she does Oh well one can get even with other girls without saying mean things So I have discovered said the girl in the sailor hat |