The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-04-19
Of course meant present company,

1 4" Lit would nave Deen OeUueT uOt W
mention red hair at all in Miss Pratt's
presence, as her hair, though beautiful,
is decidedly of reddish tint You made
another blunder yesterday, and L think
if old Dr. Manning had had El1shas
power, you would have stood IN cons1d-
cradle danger of being torn to pieces by
the bears after your facetious remarks on
the subject of bald heads.
"Oh. I never thought about his being
bald p
"But, my dear child, these are matters
that ought to be thought about. Let
me give you one plain. simple rule, Mel
lie: Never remind any one Of his or
her personal defects.
"I'n try to remember that
"There is another thing you would do
well to remember-that comparisons are
odious When Kate Sibley played the
Beautiful Blue Danube Waltzes' for
me the other evening, it was scarcely po-
lite in you to exclaim, as soon as she had
finished, oh, Aunt Alice, you ought to
hear Minnie DuBose play that9 She
does play it beautifully! Later in the
evening, when asked Kate for the 'Etude
Mazurka, she replied, Oh, you must wait
and get Minnie DuBose to play that, as
Nellie says she does play it beauti
fully"
Resentful creature Well, at any
rate, I have never said anything against
Hates looks"
emo; on the contrary, I once heard
you remark in the presence of q dozen of
her schoolmaters that she was by far the
prettiest girl in Mr.. Radford's school !;
but then you went on to qualify your
praise by coolly observing, However, I
don't think that is saying much for her. ;
You showed more temerity than i'm
agined even yots were possessed of in
giving SO many young girls to understand
that you did not consider them at all
pretty"
"Well, I don't think them pretty
| "Nor interesting either. At least so 1
judged the other night when, as they were
going away, you observed, yawningly,
Only 10 o'clock. I thought it was a
great deal later than that You are an
unselfsh child, Nellie, and always ready
to give up your own pleasure to oblige
your friends but you will never be popu-
lar unal you learn to bear this in mind,
that, although it is always wrong to tell
falsehoods, it does not follow that it is
always right to tell uncalled-for truths. !"
| "Uhy Did Etfa'ida go to Steep?"
That was the question, "Why did
Elfrida go to sleep ?'' She had been sent
to the grocer's in the village, and the
grocer's was only half mile off from
Brook cottage, where she lived with her
aunt and five cousins. She had been
sent to buy pound of sugar, half a
pound of coffee, and five small rolls of
| bread.
Usually she would go to the shop
and return in less than half an hour.
Now a whole hour went by, and no Ell
frida was to be seen. What could be the
|
foot and been lamed2 Had she stopped
to talk with the children on their way
home from school? Had she been run
over by fast horse
"Let us go and find her," cried
James, the eldest of the three boys
"Let us all go p echoed Susan, his
youngest sister, "Shall Sport go with
us2' asked Emma. By all means p
said James. "Here, Sport, Sport
Where are you, old fellow % A
big black-and-white Newfoundlander
soon rushed frisking in, wagging his tail
and seeming ready to eat up every one
of the children, just to show them how
| fond he was of them all.
Then the children all set out for Mr..
Spicer's shop. There they learned that
no Elfrida had been seen in the shop
cried James, little anxious. "Sport,
where is Elfrida 90
Sport stopped his nonsense of play
ing with a stick, and began to look seri-
nearest turning on the right, on the way
home. This was an old lane, on
which some old gardens backed, and
which led, by a little longer way, to
Brook cottage.
By the time the children had arrived
at the head of the lane, Sport was seen
galloping back in state of great excite
ment. "Bow-wow p sob, you have
found her, have you, old fellow ?''
"Bow-wow p "Wen and goodl You
are jolly old Sport l''
On the step of the gate of an old gar
den sat Elfrida, fast asleep, with her
empty basket in her lap. Emma pro-
posed to tickle her nose with straw.
''No! 1 will pull that thick braid of
hair" said Susan enc! let me
whisper in her ear" said James. But,
before anybody did anything, Sport
settled the question by putting his paws
up ON her shoulders, and crying, ''Bow-
WOW ~
Elfrida started, and looked around as
if in dream. "What does it mean ?
How long have ] been here?" cried she.
"Why did you go to sleep?" asked the
two girls. Eyes, why, why did you go
to sleep?' echoed all the boys. ooh,
that's my secret said Elfrida "Now
who can catch me in my run to Mr.. Spi-
cer's?" So off she started, followed by
Sport and all the children.
CHOW tell us WHY did Won 90 tn