Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1926, Page 97

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—MARCH 7, 1926. FRIENDS BY W. E. HILL R3S (Copyright, 1926, by The Chicago Tribune.) The girl friend who borrows. She’ll borrow anything from a feather fan to her best friend's suitor, and like as not she'll forget to return them. Just one of those little heart-to-heart confabs between two girl friends. Ethel's family, it scems, has been mean and overbearing to her again, and she has stopped in to tell Carolyn about it. How papa listened in on the extension phone when Mr. Jounce was talking with her, and so on. There are days when it seems almost as though Ethel's family sat around thinking up little, humuliating things to do to her. Oh, it's terrible! Carolyn is being unusually sympathetic. “I'd like to give that mother of yours a good, sharp talking so, Ethel Downs!” says she. The intriguing friend. Myra is es- pecially good at plan- ning intrigues. “Now,” she is saying, “if 1 were you I'd tell your family you are spend- ing the night at my house. T'll tell mine that I'm staying at your house, and then The old-fashioned girl Three of Luban's intimate girl friends waiting on the sidelines while Luuan, bless her loyal little heart, We can stay Wl'lh fricnd. Josie is per- calls up her fond parents before going on to a party. “Now. mother! Please,” Lillian is saying over the wire, Alma at her house! haps more popular with “don't call up all over town asking where I am if I don't get in by 2 o'clock! The way you did l!ast time. the elder generation _How can I tell when I'll get home?” Lillian's friends are very sympathetic. "My mother is just likt that; you than with her own. can't reason with her at times!” The girl friend in thecenter is murmuring, “Oh, these parents.” Josie is tiptoeing past the side porch, where the callers are. “No, I won't come in. I'll just tiptoe up and visit with your grandmother a while,” whispers Josie. “No really’ nice girl,” opines Josie, “wou'l'd powder a shiny nose. The crushed girl friend. Vir- ginia is always in the sad throes of a new and unhappy love affair. If Virginia likes the man, her family says he's g a thief and cutthroat, and if The jealous girl friend. Praise another she doesn’t like him, they do. girl friend and hear the jealous girl So it goes. Every few days, The girl friend with the sense of This is Martha, the girl friend from next the humorous. Oh, but she's the door. She is always running over (usually quick-witted one! Never misses 4 al ¢ o r 2 Every when a young man fis calling) to show a trick. lla.is!:en u:)her: “Oh, I wish. g;le’t‘:::(‘hi Well.” 5’;]5 !2)']!1- L_‘dont {?_me.u_mes twice in Dflxe d}:y. the family her proofs, which have just you cou! ave been with me on i " . P . you sce n her. 1 ca see irginia comes over to her come fron{lhe ph%toum her's. Very j;lly_ lyhe street just now! Positively, 1 The college girl friends. “Even in Egypt ‘"df the ;{olyh"dbo“"}'l M‘"';"w has heen why you're always praising her. [ friend’s house and has a good and almost too informal at times. thought I'd die! I have never scen KNOWR to complain, “we can't seem to get alway - s ol rothy is always meeting gimply can't see a thing to her!” Gets nld-fashioned cry. such a_funny woman! Perfectly 50M€ one.” And, indeed, Mrs. Minnow is always finding an old college face among the mad Very easily. screaming!” etc., etc strangest surroundings. “Why, Betty Snee,” Mrs. M. will be heard to exclaim, “imagine 1 i you here among these old ruins! Did you get back to commencement last year?" R ——— e VAR R e A