Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-05-08
From Little Ferns.
ROSALKE AND KFETTY.
Ttgse constitute a State"
BY FANNY FERN.

BY FANNY FERN.
Everybody called Rosale beauty
Every body was right. Her cheeks
looked like ripe peach her hair wa
we'd over as fair forehead as ever a ze-
phyr kissed her eyes and mouth were
as perfect as eyes aud mouth could be /;
no violet was softer or bluer than the
one, no rosebud sweeter than the 9TH
err. All colors became RoSalie, and
whatever she did was gracefully done.
Yes everybody thought Resale was
ga beauty" Rosalie thought so herself.
So she nook no pains 10 be good, or ami
able, or obIiging. She never cared a.
bout learning anything for she said to
herself, can afford 10 have my own
way car afford to be Ounce if
like; shall lie always sought and ad-
mired for my pretty face.
So Resale dressed as tastefnlly as she
and the dressmaker knew how and
looked up TO show her fine eyes, and
down TO show her long eye.lashes and
held mp her dress, and hoped over lit
lie imaginary puddles, TO show her pref
~ feet and smiled, to show her white
teeth; and danced, TO show her fine
form; and was as brilliant and as brain
less as a butterfly.
Now, | suppose you think that Rosa
lie was very happy. Not at all she
vas III perfect fidget lest she should
not get all the admiration she wanted
She was torturing herself all the while.
Tor fear sumo pretiier face would come
along and eclipse here.--if sire 'veTrt sv
a party, and every person III the room
bat one admired her, she would fret her
self sick because that one didn't bow
down and worship her.
Never having studied or read any
thing, Resale could talk nothing bnr
nonsense so everybody who conversed
with her talked nonsense too, and paid
her silly compliments and made her be-
lieve that all she needed to make her
quite an angel was pair Of wings and
then she would hold her pretty head or
one side and shipper; and they would e
away laughing in their sleeves, and say
ing, What a vain little fool Resale isl
Now, kosalie's cousin Hetty was as
plain as the chestuNt-bur. She had moi
q single pretty feature in her face. No
body ever thought of calling Hetty q
beauty, and she knew it she was used
10 being overlooked but she didn't e
about whining and making herself un,
happy about il--not she. She just pu
her mind on something else. She stud
led, and read books and learned grea
many useful things. So she had grea
deal in her mind to think Of, and wen
singing about as happy as could be, with
out minding whether anybody noticed
her or not.
So she grew up sweet-tempered, ami
able, generous and happy. When sh'
What plain little body Hetty is
II they could not fiud anybody else 4
talk TO, they'd go and speak to her,
Then Hetty would look up at them wit
ole Of her quiet smiles, and commenc
talking. She would say great ma
ny very sensible things, and some quee
ones; and they would lis,en--and lis
ten-and listen by and by look at thei
watch, and wonder what had made tim
lily so; and then 60 home, wondering
70 themselves how they could ever ca
such an agreeable girl as Hetty "home
ly."
So, you see, every body learned to lov
her, when they found out what beauti
tul soul she had = and while Rosalie wa
pining and fretting herself sick, becaus
her beauty was fading, and her admirer
were dropping off, one by one, to flatle
prettier faces, Hetty went quietly on he
way, winning hearts ,and-keeping theI