The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-29
JUST is SHE OLD

! JUST As sH II I OLD ] 4 | I
By JULIE K. WErHna1IL.
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at time is it? Lor-r-dl Well
-4alf al, hour to wait, and 7 do hate
| around in a hotel with nothing to
y New Orleans an awfully funny
It can't hold candle to Chi
Z Some one told us to visit the
h-c',arter; but, my goodness! it's
~ shabby-just awfully shabby;
as for the French mark:
ou get up at an unearthly hour
% morning, and the coffee they
fit to poison you. I think it's
duty to see everything that's to be
SO I said to the chambermaid the
+ day, Where are your handsome
tng-houses?"
h! out Prytania and st. Charles,
there's Elegant fine mansions"
aid.
we went, and-would you believe
they're all made of wood! Did
everl Yes; this is a dreadfully
r pluce. fused to have sort of ro-
;ic notions about the south-though
,ust be just perfect. I thought,
you know, you wore white dresses
winter, and sat on piazzas in ham,
| ks, and that the southern men were
dark, and tall, and very fiery; and
Idarkies were so funny, and sang and
red on banjos; but, gracious! they
lave just like every one else; and as
white dresses, I've never come so
II freezing to death in all my life.
4red would say that's because Inever
nytliag, nor listen to what any
$ saying. But that amt it at all.
tou'd just die if you knew Fred.
y the fnniest boy. Awfully nice,
It you know, only he will prose
about literature and culture. Oh!
) too funny. Why, when he likes
book by an author, he must rush
lit off and read all the rest of 'em.
read David Cop'feld did you ever
ID David Cop'feld? Well, I did, and
eclare I thought I'd be old and gray
ore I got through; but I'd promised
ed I'd read it. Well, then he read
of Dickuns. Same way about
lack'ray. He began Vanity Fair, and
st " razy about Thack'ray. Ever
ad y Fair? Amt it simply aw-
|? list struck. I told Fred just
,uldn't read it if he never spoke to me
ain.
Then that Backy Sharp, too. A girl
our school wrote a composition about
scky Sharp. What did she sayabo ut
T.? Lor-r-d! I diden't listen to it.
| I know is it was about Becky Sharp.
Fred amt bit like me. Now, when
ike one book by an author I never
al az ,ther, because think I'd be sure
It to like it half so we'll, and then I'd
t to hate the hole lot like poison.
But YOU mustn't think Fred ain t nice.
IS real handsome and facinating; has
: brown eyes aud the cutest nous
:he only he will be superior, and it's
fa5iguing. Now, what's the use of
ing superior? Why can't you just be
ppy and sensible?
I've known Fred for per-r-feot ages.
by, lie used to walk to school with
,, ind carry my books. But that was
It year, for I've been out ever so long.
We used to quarrel like cats. One
y he said to me. "Marie Cassidy, do
u ever intend to be anything but a
volous butterfy?"
Frivolous fddlestick's end!" said I,
L | spoke very severely, too. IF you
mt superiority, just visit mommer
zen evenings week." I
'Mommcr's superior enough, gracious
ows The way she goes in for gen.
y REFORMATION is simply awful. -:
W ell, -" said he, IF you are content J
remain"
Fred Delbert, I said, II am q griffin
a Cyciops?"
why, of course not" he said, open,
: those big eyes of his. >,
Well, then, amt a Cyclops, that's
tied, and pepper has lots of money!
It dead loads of it-so what do I want
h superiority? Tn sorry you find
so unattractive. There's De Lancy
therington, he says my eyes are like
$ OF heaven on earth, and"
fred got so mad he regularly stamped.
ont quote to me the insane remarks
IN IDIOT" he shouted.
Any how," I said, he likes me just
| am, and he isn't always treading on
poor little pug"
I hate pugs," said Fred. "They al
vs. look as if they're making faces."4
Veil somehow or other we made up
in, and I made him kiss Gigi, be-
SO he'd said such horrid things about
poor little pet. Gigisjust Killing
ought to see.him. r., I..;>H:
red and L weresortof engaged. Not
te, though, because pepper said Fred
young and I was young, and he
Mt want to give up his little, girl just
awhile. That made me cry, and feel
badly, because I've never been any
1g but the othersof his life.
'at Fred and + had y serious row
on see, thersrasa girl staying with
j. Calvin, Hin 3oyr block; Pamela
nehenge washer name, and she
lie from somewhere east. Some peo-
said she wasso elegant and charm
aud talked about her "classic out
J." but, Lor-rd she was so tall and
|, and fail nose was miles too long.
mt care what anybody says, it was .
ne was dreadfully profound and
h, and Fred began to fly around her {
tile. I didn't let on I cared bit,
ause wasn't going to set him up,
just firted awfully with De Lancy. :
was at Mrs. Jenifer's ball, and De
ICY and I were sitting on the stairs,
N J-saw Fred and the classic Pamela
'piEg off to the conservatory. Amt .
/ too heartless? Twas sure he must
Q something important to say to her, ,
told De Lancy I wanted to stroll
ut and look at the flowers; and of
rse he agreed, for he was mashed {
1larly mashed. Ipassed as close to
d and Pamela as Iconld. They were !
ing in low, earnest tone, and I
ls6mething about a scheme of Co.'S
philosophy"
ow did You ever! The idea of drag
= q girl off into a Conservatory To 8