Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-02-26


hearts, never realized what continual
self-sacrifice 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 unselfish nature
tempted her relations to requirement
Of her, so did a certain, imperiousness
in Odille compel them to render that
young woman kind of homage.
She accepted this homage by the d.
vine right OF her magnificent beauty,
yet it fostered g. selfishness OF which
she was unconscious. Jeanne was
Odille's most devoted and adoring
slave. Her exquisite taste and def
fingers fashioned many a pretty trifle
wherewith to heighten her sisters
charms, and it was a pretty sight to
witness the rapture Of admiration
with which 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.
GLOW pretty you are, jeanne said
friend to her one day.
"If you can find me pretty" answer
ed Jeanne, "then what must GU think
OF Odille?'
When the lady friend afterwards
spoke of this conversation to her hus-
band the latter remarked that it
seemed pity to disturb the young
girls innocent faith in her sister by
seeking to instill belief in her own
equal If not superior loneliness.
leave her." SAID the gentleman, 'in
the possession OF SO rare on attraction
| as Inconsistencies"
| This friend OF Jeannes, q Baltimore
an by birth, had married into q New
| Orleans family which had been on
terms of intimacy with Jeanne's peo-
pie for many years. She introduced
a new, and, as it were, foreign ele-
ment into Jeanne's life. She was at
first the only American with whom
Jeanne had any acquaintance, and
| could tell such pleasant shings Of the
great, PARKWAY Mort 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 q 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 as En-
glish more easy to learn than French?"
ask the creole ladies. lis this fact a
consequence of the superior politeness
Of the Latin race, or of the false mod
esty OF the Anglo-Saxon2'S ask the
Americans, for these Last are con-
scious of their incivility and deplore
while they do notcorrect it. Jeanne S
mamma, who could only say 4-Oh,
yes,' and ever nice" would exhaust
her vocabulary again and again in
the presence Of american" guests &C
companied by many amiab:e ways OF
the head and generous profusion OF
smiles. But she also filled their hands
with the rarest flowers and warmed
their hearts with q taste other almost
priceless wine.
Though our Jeanne declared that
her jaws ached when she "talSed En-
gleesh" all day long, yet, as her accent
was the prettiest that could be inn
agincd, and her little mannerisms
quite adorable, her admirers wished
that she might talk Engleesh'' for
ever, despite the injury done to her
jaws, for Jeanne had admirers by the
score, though she kept them at a dis
tance.
"Why do you not tell me OF your
lovers, Jeanne?" asked ler friend,
Nine. Dufour, of her one dry,
when she had been discoursing
OF Odille's conQuests, and counting on
her fingers the long list OF Odille's low
ers. And Jeanne answered gayly:
ooh! | have no lovers. After three
days they all leave me for Odille.'
You mean you leave them to Odille,
you hard-hearted little girl" replied
her friend.
''Its all the same" laughed Jeanne;
"lf do not leave them they would
leave me as soon as they Saw my
beautiful sister, so save myself the
pain OF being forsaken."
One day Madame Dufour introduce
ed into ,)eanne's family circle a cousin
Of hers, also a Marylander, who had
but recently arrived in New Orleans.
He was tall, broad-shouldered
handsome young man, Of agreeable
address and charming manners, so
that he pleased all who met him.
Jeannes family were delighted with
him from the date of his first
visit. evidently he was equally
| pleased with them, for he soon became
q constant visitor at the house, The
charming home life Of this large family
attracted him Immediately.
"Just think OF what elements of dis
cord are in that house, and yet they
are as harmonious as nest of doves, y
he remarked to his cousin.
| 81 have often said that Barnun,
! ought to have then," replied Madame
Dufour.
Young Frank Howard thought he
mao never witnessed anything more
delightful than the affection and con-
fdence the members of this large lam.
lily manifested for each other. The
artless manner in which they, one and
all, openly expressed their admiration
for each other pleased while it anus
ed him. AS for "Grandmamma," no
queen on her throne was ever more
honored or petted than this an
Gent dame. From little Blance,
whose fairy fingers plucked the
first violets for INA Grand
mere" to the boys who brought her
choicest fruits, and the ladies of the
| family Who nara hor. l;..ol., a,aa..;.a