The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-02-26

appreciation of herself that she m
pressed the feeling on the family.
They all loved her, it is true; but she
was so ever ready TO do for others
that insensibly they were eXacting
with her. Jeanne's t~ireless little feet
ran countless errands for all OF her
dear ones; her dainty fingers gave the
finishing touch which made her Sis
tiers toilettes so pretty, or rendered
acCeDtable music when her brothers
spent their evenings at home. If the
Young people wished to dance 1t SEEM
ed quite natural for Jeanne to remain
seated at the piano during the entire
evening, and no one remembered that
she, too, was young and liked to
dance Also.
When on festival occasions the
whole family would go abroad in
search of pleasure, if ''grandmamma"
did not feel well enough to &C
company them they would say quite
as q matter ofcOurse, Jeanne cherie,
grandmamma can not be left alone,
you will stay with her, n'est-ce-pas?"
And they would all 60 off il gay good
humOr, leaving little Jeanne to read
| aloud from books of divOtiOn, or to
play for her grandmother those airs
from the operas that the old lady Xix
ed best. II the girls unSelish heart
ever felt one pang OF regret at these
times she never gave expression to it
! by word or look. Her self ~abnegation
had become so much u part OF their
daily lives that her relations, loving
| and v~aluing her as they did in their
hearts. never realized what continual
| self-sacrifce they demanded OF her.
They were good, kind people, all OF
them, and would have been shocked
could they once have been made to
understand their want OF COnsidera-
ton for the young girl.
Exactly as Jeanne's unselhoh nature
tempted her relations to require much,
of her, so did a certain, imperiOusness
in Odille compel them to render that
young oma a kind OF homage.
She accepted this homage by the dl-
vine right of her magnificent beauty,
vet it fOstered a selfishness OF which
She was unconscious. Jeanne was
Odille's most devoted and adoring
slave. Her exquisite taste and deft
fingers fashioned many o pretty trit1e
wherewith to heighten her sisters
charms, and it was a pretty sight to
witness the rapture OF admiration
with whichs she contemplated the result
Of her labor on the person OF the SUI
perb Odille.
Little Jeanne never imagined that
any one could think her more attract
i've than this magnificent sister. In
fact Odille allured the senses, but
Jeanne touched the heart.
"Howpretty you are, jeanne" said
a friend to her one day.
"Ifyou can find me pretty" answer.
ed Jeanne, ''then what must you think
of Odille?"
When the lady friend afterwards
spoke of this conversation to her hus-
band the latter remarked that it
seemed a pity TO disturb the young
girls innocent faith In her sister by
seeking to instil q belief In her own
equal il not superior loneliness.
Leave her" said the gentleman, ''in
the possession OF so are an attraction
as Inconsistencies"
This friend of Jeanne's, baltimore
an by birth, had married into a New
Orleans family which had been on
terms of intimacy with yeanne's peo-
! pie for many years. She introduced
| q new, and, as it were, O foreign ele-
ment into Jeanne's life. She was at
first the only American with whom
Jeanne had any acquaintance, and
I could tell such pleasant things OF the
great, far-away "Nort," about which
! distant land our Jeanne felt much
curiosity. Then, too, Jeanne priced
the opportunity OF ''spiking Engleesh,"
which her intercourse with this friend
gave her.
And just here the narrator OF this
little tale begs leave to ask a question
often propounded by creole DANES
and damoiselles. "Why is it," they
wish to know, "that the American
ladies will rarely speak French in their
intercourse with the creoles, but force
the French ladies to summon all the
English phrases they can muster,
whether broken or otherwise, as q
medium of conversations" s'Is En-
glish more easy to learn than French?n
ask the creole ladies. els this fact a
consequence of the superior politeness
of the Latin race, or of the false mod
esty OF the Anglo-Saxon?" ask the
Americans, for these last are on
scious of their incivility and deplore
while they do not correct it. Jeanne's
mamma, who could only say "Oh,
yes and Yer nice" would exhaust
her vocabulary again and again in
the presence of american" guests ac-
companied by many amiab.e ways Of
the head and q generous profusion OF
smiles. But she also filed their hands
with the rarest flowers and warmed
their hearts with a taste ofher almost
priceless wine.