Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-09-04
A TALE OF HALF-HOURS.

The Difference Between Two Girls-Which
Would You Rather BE Like?
"Molly, what have you been doing"
"Nothing, mamma
What do you mean by nothingP !
left you sitting by this window half an
hou. ago. Whe. have you been since
them"
Nowhere, mamma. l was watch
Ing the kitten"
Watching the kitten for half an
hour! o Molly! And you promised to
help me pare the peaches"
shall l do them now?"
They are all doae. l supposed every
moment that you would come, or /
should have called yOu."
I'm sorry, mamma, l forgot" But
Molly did not look particularly sorry,
and not at all ashamed. There was
nothing new or surprising, l regret to
say, either in the half-hour wasted or
the for gotten promise; they were things
Oh every uay Wltl No,iy LcSter'
Molly was naturally an indolent
child. The blood did not dance in her
veins as a child's blood should she fe
no quick impulses toward acton ana
movement. This constitut onal slug
gishness of temperament was Molly 9
excuse her only one put u was not eN.
euse enough. for none OF us are SEM
into the world TO 40 only the things we
feel like dong; and the 1act that We
nave naturaiiy oIaS against Mnat "a
right or dutliul IS put reason lor lght
ing hard ana steadily; ana making our,
se,ves DO Inc uaty. scarcely any one
Is born perseVerlng', or INDUSTRIOUS OF
prompt or neat-all theSe are haolts
which must be formed by years oil Ell
fort; but, Wien formed they are inc
most valuable part OF ourselves; tha
which makes our ilVlng worth WINE t'
the world ana 10 the lrlehus VINO oeiohs
to US. .,
Molly Lester was not hgntihg VIII
Ger Incidence. She mad faint re GU
tons to do SO once in awhile but whei
the moment came Tor the eiiort she wa
too aptto indulge herself Just lh''
once, or to reflect that only tweht'
minutes more or "only nail an honr
could make no difference unmlndiul o
the fact that lie Is made up OF minute
and half-hours' and that to waste tll'h
means to waste lie A goou, marc
study OF WI gar fractions would nav
taught her the value OF parts 10 thel
whole; but, dear me! Molly mated
arlthmet c. and coulu never DC lhuucc'
to apply her mind to it.
There was another girl in tie hons
WHO was exactly the opposite OF Moly
Hor name was Lucy-Lucy Lester Oh
was Molly's cous II, and about the sam
age. Her father and mother d:ed WIN
in few weeks OF each other OF typhoi
fever; and her uncle, Robert, Molly
father, had taken her home to live W &
him, and be sister to Molly, who ha
no sister OF her own. The ooyS-theI
were three-had not been at oil glad !
have Lucy come. 'Glrls are no iun'
they SAID; "they are always sticKln
about in bedrooms, and saying the
d mt want to do anything, ana on
enough in house, any now. IN
Logs Judged all girls by Molly put the
soon found that Lucy was OF dliierel
sor. She didn't "stick in bedrooms;
she liked TO go rowing and fishing,
walk in the woods and ride on the m!
cart, as much as the boys themselve
and. though she was always busy 81
could generally make time 10 men
gloves, cover balls and be useful an
obliging.
Lucy and Molly got OIL Very we
together, they seldom quarrele :: Mol
was good-humored enough. ike mo
lazy people; but the girls were too III
like in character to understand eat
o.her very well, or to grow intlmat
Lucy had been carefully ira nal by
energetic mother, W no believed in ''sy
tenn" and Molly's dawdling ways we
always Irritating to her Molly seldo
began any new piece OF work, and ne
finished what she began. Lucy b;
be II taught that she must finish. IN
made her cautious not to undertake t.
mucb Her impulse WAS to unuprtl|