Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-10

hears MN with outward sympathy. agrees
with all his views. and, when asked to holm
nun 10 q decision, gives her casting vote in
iaVor OF the course he already prefers. He
mas AFTER q time that her quiet receptiyeness
is grateful to him; and, when she has seen
MN safe through an engagement or two.
ana halt-a-doZen flirtations more or less SER
lous' he suddenly finds out, Or at least, tells
ller that he has really been in love with her
only all the time. Sometimes this happy
result Is brought about by scheminc, and it
Is the great drawback of quietness that du-
pllclty is so often attributed to it. The quiet
girl OF the family regulates the autumn
tour; she silently directs its goings to the
place where her bosom friend, male or fe-
male, is to be met with. and she will bury
her sisters in a northern moor or bake them
at Brighton with equal and u%nruffled COM
posure. True. she never asks to go any
where in Particular; but at odd intervals
she hazards a remark that suggests the
place, and now and then reads out q para
graph from a letter or newspaper in which
Its advantages are set forth. What she does
say is listened to by the family, for she is al
ways sure of an audience for her rare utter
ances, and gets a reputation for good sense
which she does not always deserve. She is
never in scrapes, or. if she is, keeps them to
herself. Her allowance is never overdrawn.
or, If it is, no one hears her grumble that
she cannot make ends meet. There seems
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pie instinctively yield, and she gets her own
way. not so much because she tries to get it,
as because nobody thinks of opposing her.
Like the flies whose feet are, provided with
soft pads, SO that you do not feel them when
they alight on you, her influence works I'M
noticed, and everything seems ordered for
rather than by her. She almost ~monopolizes
the attention of the lady's-maid she is sup
posed to share with her sisters, and can al
ways manage a cup of tea in her room or
breakfast in bed. She can flirt, on occasion,
in a way no frivolous girl dares to attempt,
but she never writes a compromising letter,
and has a most convenient want of memory.
She accepts presents which her sisters would
have to refuse, and keeps them laid by in
cotton wool to look at during the hour she
is doing her back hair and saying her pray
ers. She retires gracefully in favor of the
other girls, as if willing to let them shine,
and gets her reward by the appreciation of
the old people of the party.
Quiet men find her agreeable, and wond-
err why she is said to be silent, but this is
chiefly because she does not bore them
by insisting on to her questions.
When she developes into a wife, tor she al
ways marries at least once, she gets her own
way in everything. Fer husband probably
chose her because he thought it would turn
out differently, and finds when too late that
he could not possible have made a more
complete mistake. Children are always fond
of her; sons respect, if they do not greatly
love quiet mothers, for they have never
heard them talk nonsense. Servants never
give them short answers, as their words are
few and decisive, and poor people think
them dignitiel and mines of hidden wisdom.
In fact. they go through the world under a
kind of false pretense; they get credit for
great depth of feeling, audit is thought we'll
worth while to win their love. Only the ex-
perienced man estimates them at their right
value, and admires the merry little sister
with the sharp tongue, the pleasant smile,
and as he knows well. a warmer heart and
tr1er character than underlie the staid de-
meanor of the quiet girl.
Cuietness is sometimes a sign of bodily
health. The nervous man who is always