Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-16

and whom everybody likes; and /
have seen many a girl stand before
the glass, and wonder why people
look askance at her and never ask
her to parties. Two young girls
were once visiting at friends house
at the same time with an older lady
Both were good, pretty and well ed
ucated. At the end of two days one
of them came into the lady's room
looking very sad. She would not
tell what troubled her for some time.
At last she said "Why is it that
when l want to make other people
happy just as much as Lucille does,
and to have them like me, she sue
ceeds and / do not? What is the
use of my having been first scholar?
/ would rather have everybody want
me round as they do Lucille. 1t is
always so wherever l 60" The lady
knew what the girl meant, and be-
lieved her brave enough to bear the
truth so she threw herself in a
chair, pushed one foot away out so
as to show part of the stocking above
the boot, and flung an arm over the
back of the chair, making one Shout
der several inches higher than the
other, while the waist of her dress
looked wrinkled and twisted. Then
she took four or five strides across
the room, slammed to the half-open
door with her back, and, swinging
her shoulders, came back. The girls
face flushed "Do [ do that?'' she
asked. The lady took up a roll that
lay on the table with her whole hand,
and, holding it SO that the end came
out through the circle made by her
thumb and forefnger, bit into the
middle of the bread. 'sFirst scholars
and poor scholars must be ladies !"
she said and then she cried from
pity and the girl from shame. In a
few days they separated. Two
months later came a note from the
young girl, saying: 1.-The best
thanks / can give you is to tell you
that Robert told me he thought he
had done me injustice, for that / was
so ladylike. AS ladylike as Lucille ?
l asked. Not qgite so graceful, he
answered; and | knew what he
meant; but l never should have, if
you had not given me such bitter
lesson
So manners are something to be
studied; but are not all to be of the
same pattern, else they were borrow
ed. Affected girls and staggering
and "dude" boys always borrow
and are always laughed at. Remem-
Der, first, that no amount of s'pul
backs, "bangs," small waists, ''cut
Always" one or two buttoned coats
stiff OF 'smashed in hats will make
grace, which depends on motion an(
outline. After all, you must think :
great deal of your manners ant
then when you have fallen into tn
habit of shutting doors with you
hands, of eating slowly, (not daint
> lily, as if you thought your food wa
poisoned, as | saw an insane MAJ
doing), of helping people so that the
,, look gratifed rather than disturbe
when you give them chair or fin
their spectacles, and of never cross
;, ing your knees, you will gradual
!, forget all about yourself, aud b
free, graceful and good-mannered.
Oh. There is another thing 20
must not do, and which boys espe
!, cially think it is knowing not to do
! look pleased and grateful, and try
be happy when somebody does some
= thing for you. Mothers, who hay
either earned or saved their none
: by hard labor, will give it to the
boys, who will take it in the mo'
nonchalent way, perhaps kiss I'll
very tip end of their mothers for
- head, in a dipping, birdlike manne
~ and the instant they have left tt
:, room, they will swing round on the
II heels and say "bully," in their d
light. They will also show the
lg lordly Indifference on plcnics. Nc
e. they do not care to swing, nor
. sail, nor to shoot pistols, nor to tall
nor to eat. They will just look o.
~ SO round and round they walk, Wi
their hands in their pockets, supe
lie cilious smile on the corner of the
be lips; answering politely, if SPOKE
b to, but making every one feel thu
L were not suited, and wonder VIII
1g could be done for them.
in Good msnners always make othe
is feel happy.