Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-08-22

worth their while unless it is taken by
audacity. i found the door o. your heart
open,' one of the charming minxes whom
l was beginning to tolerate SAID to me
once. | walked in without knocking ana
l mean to stay ,
I'm determined you shall be devoted
to me- another said, setting her lips and
looking straight into my face with her
lovely blue ewes. This might be very nice
to school boy or young idiot who didn't
know his or her own mind. but to make
savings like this her stock in trade, rem
ders a girl tiresome beyond relief. ia as
lief see thunderstorm coming as one OF
these assured and overcoming chits who
is always certain that with her looks and
position and her condcesension she can
make her civilities irresistible"
Miss Winchester, what is the secret oil
being lady? Is it to be true and fearless
like man, or to be just, or polite and
charitable and always giving up oneself
for others?" -,
Miss Winchester was darning table
cloth. She always did the nice parts OF
housekeeping, to steady her nerves, she
SdlNl, duu SIlG lOUh IltllO W fhho"SA'
1.-The truest ladies' ever knew had two
things SO blended that one never knew
which to be surest of, their sincerity or
their kindness. never saw a lady,
whether she was girl or n grown woman
who had not the faculty wise writer
calls "a genius for loving 1t was born
in them, and grew with them. It's not
that kind Of don't know what to do
with myself feeling that makes girls
throw their arms round the nearest friend
and smother her with kisses, that is feign-
ing pretty jealousies ofothers, and saying,
4 wish you could love me- when one isn't
in the mood for sweet stuff. Tie most
loving hearted girls don't show their feel
ings by any means. They do not love to
kiss, or parade affection, but they are
kind, o! so kind, to their last breath and
drop of strength. to those who need and
deserve their care. Kind with the Kind
ness that makes one " for others hap
piness, so that mother loon sinto the mend
ing basket to fluid that troublesome torn
shirt-sleeve made whole and the apron
finished for Bobby, and father has the
room quiet for a long evening when he
wants 10 read the debates, or to make cal
culations, aud Jennie finds her rain-spoled
dress sponged and ironed fresh in the
wardrobe, and Mrs. Brown over the way
sees the children taken out Of the house
when she has II racking headache, and the
teacher knows who will run up the tioun-
ces and sew on buttons for the new suit
she is hurrying to make out of school
hours. There is nothing too homely or
distasteful for this sort of u girl to do, and
she might take for her signature what !
once saw in kind letter of Elizabeth
Stoddard's, the novelist, Yours to serve.
The kisses and love making may be shy
enough with her, but the kindness is for
everybody, and it runs very deep Moth
ing draws on her help and sympathy so
much as to need it most, to be without in
terest or attraction 10 any way.
1.-The best recipe for going through life
in an exquisite way, with beautiful man
ners, is to feel that everybody, no matter
how rich or poor, need all the kindness
they can get from others in the world.
The greatest praise written of Madame
Recamier the most beautiful woman and
complete lady of her own or any other
known time, was this:" and Miss Win
chester's face softened, and her voice fell
to a moving key as she repeated softly the
words l afterward saw copied in an old
blank manuscript book of hers, and knew
that she had loved them. Disgrace and
misfortune had for Madame Recamier the
same sort of attraction that favor and sue
cess usually have for vulgar souls"
There was the nature of great lady
Wide AUake.