The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-04-14

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tie undermining Of her religion Would you
trust those sly, insinuating sisters with our
daughterW
ing some of that peculiar, modest, quiet air
which those sisters have and 80 often impart
to their pupils. There is some nameless
saying it is the opposite of that which the
young ladies of the present day cultivate for
their department, and which seems to belong
almost exclusively to this training"
Two years after this, the cousins, Lizzie
Lennox and Elnor Lloyd, have returned from
their respective schools; Lizzie from her
fashionable seminary where she has received
and where she has associated with the daugh-
ters of the wealthiest, if not the NEST refined
families in the land.
Lizzie Lennox has all these advantages of
wealth in her case, but her cousin Elinor
Lloyd is the daughter Of poor man. Poorer
now than he was two years ago, when he let
of q convent school for her daughter. Elinor
has been very happy with the sisters, to whom
she has become ne sincerely attached. Their
means have been used to warp her religious
feelings. They have simply and honestly
acted out the dictates of their own faith, ex-
acting from her only suoh general compliance
rs would bs required in the schools of any de-
nomination among Protestants.> If her affsc-
tsons have been won, and her young heart
Gn0S0 Qentl0
teachers, that was the risk her mother took
when she sent her willingly among the Sisters
of Charity.
The cousins are nearly Of an age. Lizzie is
nalse1 after her fathers sister, Mrs. Lloyd,
and Elinor after her aunt, Mrs. Lennox.
These cousins are strikingly alike, and yet
singuiariy unlike in their appearances. Their
faces seem to have been cast in almost the
same mould, SO exactly does every feature cor
respond resp hut the coioring is so different that
they present. Spposisse, types Of beauty For
Ssssr, with light auburn hair and hazel eyes
the same rsdsisss &iea seeming to Turk in the
eyes and iashys ssin the hair, which peculia.i-
this type. ButElinor's eyes are q dark brown,
aud her hair is very dark. She is too fair and
pale for a brunette, and her eyes are not black
enough. Despite this difference in color they
are very like her cousin Lizzie's light orbs in
expression is as If q painter should take
two sketches of the same face, and simply
change his colors for the touching of them.
Indeed, q cast of each might pass for the same
person, SO like are they, even to the carriage
Of the head, the turn of the throat the curve
soription, because out of this wonderful like
ness and difference of face and form came
Elinor's trial. Bat now. at eighteen, Elinor's
blonde cousin. This difference is seen as they
are listening or talking. more than while their
faces are in repose. Shall we say that it is the
seems the more refined and modesto Or is it
only matter of Inheritance, or o trick of man
ner betohening nothingf present them thus
to the reader, who may guess somewhat of
ting their cousinly talk in Lizze's room.
Lizzie is dressing to go out with Elipor, and
talking while she proceeds with her toilet.
But, ELY, where is the harm of flirting o
little, so long as you do nothing serious, and
never commit yourselff"
al think you do commit yourself, Lizzie,
when you put pen to paper to answer
strangers letter, and when you cannot tell
whether he is true false. More likely he is
the latter, from the very fact of his trying to
draw you on. How do You know how he may
use your letterT
but haven't signed my name, only my
own initials. use +. L. not L. l.. And you
shan Elizabeth L"nnox. No can ever
think of me rs Elizabeth don't seem to be
that to myself. Now, you are either Elmer or
ELY, but am just Lizzie. So you See can
hide under my own honest initials"
"a" All Lizzie! why hide at all Give it up.
don't like this kind of thing. / don't believe
the men VIII" write to girls in this way care
one bit for them. except to make them con-
tribute to their own amusement, and feed their
conceit. What good does it do when You don't
even see each other ~
''Bnt may, after, if We want to, 70
known
II shouldn't want to see him, Lizzie; 1 hope
you will never meet"
Now, Ely, it just being with those sisters
that makes you talk 80. Why, all the girls do |
so. 1t is only for fun, and the young men
know we don't mean wrong"
but Lizzie you know like fun as much
as other girls only 1 don't think this.is fun: !
think it isn't just right. 1t is making Yourself
too cheap. l don't like men we'll enough to do
so much for their amusement. l may he
peculiar, but certainly hate covert thing,
apd personals in the newspapers are very
covert and very cowardly. Mamma says
respectable paper will not publish them. Be-
sides, you dare not let your father and mother
know this, dare your"
ooh! of course they would get n great
scare and think was going to do something
much worse than mean. But that doesn't
prove would do wrong"
No; hrt Lizzie, don't you hate to deceive
them when theystrust you 50 freelyf Is this
stranger to De trusted and they not 7"
Well, don't want to give pain to either |
papa Ini,uma; aud so if they don't know it,
taey will he spared all pain and fuss i'll the !
matter, and n"bn'iy hurt Now Pm ready. |
Let's CO. And the two leaving the house, tho |
su''r-gt Is dropped for the time.
OI.!y one month BIAS passed since the cousins
have had this mornings talk together, but it
has brought Il great change in their feelings
and relations to each other.
First, Ellnor has quietly but courageously