The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-04-05
AUNT CALISTA'S HAIR.

"Splendid -
Magnificent !"
$50 long,"
$50 thick p
"And soft ~
And glossyI'
"The loveliest brown"
With just a tinge OF gold ~
and it waves so sweetly I"
1t was Edna and Alice Bristol who
were praising their Aunt Calista's hair.
Aunt Calista "pished and "pshawed p
and begged them to hush; but it was
evident, after all, that she was pleased
at their enthusiastic praise of what was
her only positive attraction. An attrac-
ton OF which she, poor soul, had been
heretofore but dimly conscious, for all
her life, thus far, had been so occupied
ia caring for others that she had no time
to think of herself, whether she were
a fright or otherwise; though fright
she certainly was not, for her complex
ion was fair and clear, and her expression
was one of great sweetness and intelli-
gence, too, so what matter If her feat
ures were not all cast in beauty's perfect
mold
A quiet, sober, and, at times, sorrow
full existence had been hers since her
earliest girlhood-she was now border
ing upon Observation-Disclosures, for
several years, she was almost the sole
nurse and companion of an invalid
mother; and then, later, when death had
removed from her clinging arms this
loved charge, her father was stricken
down with an incurable and lingering
disease, and she was KEEP close but
not unwilling prisoner by MS side for
maiy more long, weary years, until now
he, too, was mercifully taken to rest,
and she had come to make her home, for
a while, with an only sister, who had
married and removed far from her native
place many years before.
This sister and her two young laugh
GERS were gay and fashionable, and it
seemed like being in new world to her.
quiet old maid as she was, and she kept
within the seclusion of her own room as
much as her lively nieces would allow
her.
Do not imagine, though, that she was
either awkward or vulgar, for she was
nothing of the kind. Her father had
been man of high mental culture and
refinement, and the few friends who
visited him occasionally during his long
illness were gentlemen of like tastes and
advantages besides, too, she, with him,
had been a constant reader of all the
standard Literature, as fast as it came
before the public 80 that, although
,dreadine society, and shrinking and
easily embarrassed when compelled to
minRle in it, she was far from being a
IF uyhn fria la G. Il
ashamed, had they been much more sem
sitive than they were.
"Oh Aunt Cally," pleaded Edna,
@'do let us dress your hair, just this
once. You've no idea what difference
it will make in your appearance to have
it done fashionably. You might be
stylish If you only would. Why, your
hair alone is enough to make your fort
une ~
MAKE my fortune ?" said Aunt Cally.
81 don't understand. Sell it, you
mean ?"
"Catch a husband with it, /
mean," laughed Edna. "Now, don't
look 80 Mortified, aunty You must
know that every girl and woman wants
to do that-catch a Observation-Disclosures
they will own it or not"
Aunt Calista t0as Mortified, quite as
much as her looks expressed.
"Catcn a husband p she gasped.
"Girls of your age talking like that
Why, thought it was women who were
caught if there was any catching in the
case. / didn't know that they hunted or
hshed for husbands I"
"Well they do, Aunt Cslly," asserted
Alice, she, as well as Edna, intensely
amused at their aunt's country sim
plicity," as they called it.
= "Why, half the women here are doing
their very best to catch Lawyer Chester
now"
"The bold, forward things T. ex-
claimed Aunt Calista, in great disgust.
IF he has any sense, he won't have
any of them. hope neither of you are
included in the number"
Alice tossed her head with n little suiff,
saving 4 al don't care for husband old
enough to be my father, il he is rich
and POPULAR and as for Edna"-with