| Show Comparison Its too bad Grace couldn't be here bere said the young roun woman in the blue linen linon dress Everybody Is of theold the theold theold old crowd has come but her t I Im crazy crozy to see her chimed Inthe in inthe the che woman In the green voile olle She married d so o much money and Im I'm al always always al al- ways reading about her at nt Pal Palm n Beach or somewhere Its It's like a n fairy talc It sighed the girl In pink It certainly would be easy eusy to be lovely and serene If one didn't have any anymore anymore more worries than Grace and all her cash to keep the wheels going Sometimes Sometimes Some Some- Sometimes times I get so 80 tired planning just planning planning plan plan- ning so o that we cnn can scrape along ulong without without with with- out ending in the debtors debtors' prison I 1 Every time I see ee her house said the young woman omun in n blue linen and then go home to mine it makes me Just sick Whatever is the use I ask Jack Jaek Why Grace has a million tall mil lion dollars' dollars worth of ot shrubs and flowers flowers flowers flow flow- ers on her hr city lot and we s struggle ruggle with one peony bush and n a bunch of petunias I I felt real gay over our ten by ten ft n garden till I read that Grace had plowed up her front lawn for potatoes i Anyone who cnn cats hurl hurIn a potato patch into the teeth of the public public pub pub- lic Ilc like that and get away with it is far beyond my class l 1 Did you OU ever see such clothes as ns those she wears sighed the girl in green voile I rend real a while 1 ago 0 that Grace had come out advocating economy economy economy econ econ- omy in clothes while the war wor lasted and she said no woman was justified In paying more than a hundred and fifty Ct for a gown these days and that she should confine herself to these simpie simple sim pIe little things I There was a dismal chuckle of ot laughter from the crowd A uA hundred and fifty sighed the theIrl girl Irl in pink My good gracious If I ever spent that amount for tor a dress Id I'd feel so guilty gunty that Id I'd live in sackcloth sackcloth sack sack- cloth the rest of my life Wouldn't it be perfectly wonderful to be able to drop into your dressmakers dressmaker's and languidly lan Inn order three or four one hundred dollar frocks sent home Just simple little things for morning wear you OU know I Oh it makes makS me wild to think of it 1 And she gets all her evening gowns abroad and I never neer see Bee her Inthe in inthe inthe the same set of furs twice seems to tome tome tome me I 1 went there to lunch last winter pursued the young woman in blue I wish I didn't have the feeling when Grace asked me that she Is just being kind and trying not to drop her old friends I dont don't see sec at all why she should fuss with me anyhow for Tra rm nobody socially and theres there's no denying she he has spent a a good deal of effort climbing since her marriage The luncheon dollies doilies were real lace and there was a butler who bothered me fearfully I I simply never could get used to having a stran strange e man at my elbow watching every mouthful I ate Grace didn't seem to mind 1 And Id I'd like to know how I ever eer could ask her herto herto herto to lunch with me quartered me-quartered quartered oak table luncheon set embroidered by my mp my sister and ancl myself the cook and waitress waitress wait wait- ress Oh it wasn't a party part she Invited me meto to There were Just her hr sister and myself my my- self self but but you ou dont don't like to have people making comparisons and how could she help it All her new friends are areas areas areas as rich as she is and she Is used to ever everything gorgeous all the time I I like Grace too but if I ask her bel shell she'll think I am om just chasing her exactly how I feel about it it con confided clell the girl in pink Tye been there too too and and somehow rye Ive never got around to Inviting her to tomy my home I 1 II II I guess we could be raging beauties beauties beau beau- ties too added the young woman In do green If we could pay to have the lines massaged away every week week und and didn't have to sit up nights figuring how In creation we were going to pay our months month's bills I ra l Maybe bc its it's Just as well Grace didn't come to the reunion sighed the gIrlIn girl girlIn girlin in blue gathering her things together Wed have smothered with envy over her clothes and her car and her chauffeur chauffeur and her Imported bull pup l I IThe The young women in blue and pink walked slowly homeward rather subdued subdued sub sob dued still turning over the marvelous life of their fairy friend A grimy little boy in patched clothes and his mother carrying a basket of laundry were Just ahead of them In front of ot the tiny yard ard belonging to the girl in green they halted I wisht shed she'd give me a n flower the small boy said shrilly You hush said his mother The liThe Idea 1 Rich folks with places like this aint handing over flowers to the likes of us l This is where the pretty lady Indy with the nice clothes lives lives aint aint It grand Oh Ob my goodness the girl In blue tort sort ort of moaned Running forward she dragged the astonished small boy Into the the yard and heaped his hands with nasturtiums and pinks Sa Say she told the speechless girl girlIn girlIn girlIn In pink as ns they watched the happy halPY pair go away were awful fools 1 I Im I'm going in the house this minute and phone Grace to come coine out oot to lunch and ond hear all about the reunion I |
