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Show : r - j The Hornets' Nest Women. She wonders why her women friends don't flock , about her, court her and call her "dear." It is, because she never goes anywhere without a hornets' nest. She has with her and is always ; giving it little shake. Everybody knows how a hornets' nest acts, when someone shakes it. She makes unkind remarks about every .ore and criticises criti-cises her best, friends when their hacks are turned. She toll one friend all of the ill-natured . things that another has said about her. She calls attention to people's freckles and wrinkles. She never forgets any disgrace in a family his-, tory. ....... Tf a woman's dress fits well she never mention it. but she is always suggesting how tb.o sleeeyes might be changed to make ihem in fashion. She tells mothers the bad things that she hears about their husbands. She waves the hornets' nest above her head as if it were a flag of honor, and wonders that the. women run at the sight of it. She puts on an innocent face and pretends 1hat she believes thai she is being hone si. truthful, helpful. help-ful. ( She is. in fact, heinn- hateful, spiteful and disagreeable. dis-agreeable. AVe could gel on very nicely without Miss Truthful Truth-ful and her nest of hornets. |