The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-24
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HER AR1sTocRAT1c WAYS.

HER ARISToCRATIC WAYS.
You notice the title reads like an excla-
nation, and please imagine very contemp-
tuous tone Of voice in conjunction with the
exclamation clause, and you have it COM
plete, Just as Aunt Phoebe put it.
| was spending the summer with auntie
in the thrifty little town of N, not far
from the White Mountains, and its prox-
unity to the refreshing mountainous region
made it a popular resort for summer
boarders,' a few of whom were annually
accommodated at the ample farm house,
where | had delightedly taken up my abode
\ for the 'season.
/ Nv home was in an always retired New
England village, and the hustle of ''sum-
mer campaign in a for-the-time-being
fashionable locality, was an experience of
which l had long dreamed with most joy
GUS anticipations; and they said all the
rooms at the spacious hotel had already
been engaged, and were rapidly being Oc-
cupied, although it was only the first week
in June.
Uncle Eben had gone to New York city
on business. and Aunt Phoebe had received
letter from him which she was reading,
when suddenly her brow became clouded,
and, with an expressive "Humph," she ex-
claimed:
stDear me if Eben hasn't gone and en-
gagged to take that Rosa Van Withren for
the summer Well, never did ~
"Why, autie," began, ~ thought you
wanted some people to come here; what
difference does it make ?''-but she cut me
! short
"You know nothing about it, Maggie;
the Van Withrens are one of those old rich,
important-feeling families who hold them
selves above every one else; they we4e at
the hotel last summer, and his daughter
Rosa was with them; l can see her now with
her aristocratic ways! Her aristocratic
WAYS She is not the kind | want in my
house. What will Mr.. and Mrs Herbert
think. [ wonder, staid, sensible people as
they are? That's the class of persons I
like to entertain, wealthy to be sure, but
totally free from fashionable ideas and hum
bug airs p
Another thing" Aunt Phoebe contin-
ued, excitedly; "Rosa Van Withren is a
very different person, Maggie, from what
your mother would wish to have you thrown
in with. You're tolerably sensible girl
now, but there's no knowing what few
months with a prinking New York girl
would make of you. Well, all is, we must
treat her politely, but you've no need to
make companion of her, and as to all the
world of furbelows and earthly vanities she
will bring along in her great Saratoga"
YOU must remember such things are very
displeasing to the Lord; it's all of the earth,
earthly, and no one with true religion in
their heart will run after such things"
Now 1 heard Jane-Aunt Phebe's cook
say that 'of all the close, fussy creatures
she ever heard of, that rich, disagreeable
woman from Springfield ranked first and
foremost" So l might be pardoned for
concluding in my own mind, how well [
should like ''staid, sensible Mrs. Herbert. "
But Jane had added, that most persons
who ceme from Massachusetts, and partic-
ularly from Boston, were '.just splendid, -
very kind and considerate of the "help,"
and "nice sober people" But way down
deep in my wicked little heart, | secretly
rejoiced that this proud, handsome, stylish
lady was coming home with Uncle Eben.
My reading had furnished me with some
idea of what such person might be, and
[ really trembled with excitement-un-
sophisticated creature that was-at the
thought of inhabiting the same house with
real live fashionable" True, there must
be sin in it, but like stolen waters, the very
fact of the danger accompanying the form
ing of such an acquaintance, seemed to
possess a forbidden sweetness.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert were to arrive
next morning, and in the evening Miss Van
Withren and Uncle Eben were expected;
SO all was hurry and hustle for the remain
der of the day. The great square, front
room on the second story was to be reserv-
ed for the Herberts, Miss Van Withren
was to occupy aspacious room next to theirs,
and my room was next to hers, the third
apartment on the same floor.
'sNow mind Aunt Phoebe again eau
toned me, ''don't you 90 to getting inti-
mate with that Miss Rosa; though l guess
there's no danger" she added, "for she
won't probably notice you any more than
as if you were post"
She wouldn't, eh Well, after all, that
was perhaps the very best thing Aunt
Phoebe could have said. 1t restored my
equilibrium. I had expected to blush and
tremble when she came, but if that was to
be my treatment, she might ignore my pres
ence as she pleased-I shouldn't care.
Sure enough the next morning, with
what seemed to me great deal of pomp
and hustle, came Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert.
No great wonder she cared but little for the
pride and fashion of life. She was fully
fifty years of age, and weighed about two
hundred pounds, and it took the entire
household, me included, all of two hours to
wait upon her after her arrival. Not SC
Mr.. Herbert; he settled down at once in a
comfortable armchair, and troubled no one
And towards evening, just before tea
time, came Uncle Eben and Miss Van With
ren. She was the fairest creature | had
ever seen. l mean by the fairest, the love,
liest. The day had been warm, and the
journey from New York long and tedious
A mass of bright, crimpy hair partly shad