The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-11-02

I'm not the clever ONE she sAu'
He smiled,
"NOV
mo, olotilde is the clever one"
aAld I'm not the good one, Janet /
the good one"
"1ndeedlh
eyes, witha nod. "And I'm notth
pretty one, either Margery 10 theprett
one.D
dAnd your"
"Oh, I'm the bad one, AT least that !
the way Uncle Dick says we ought TO b
dls,dishnguishadW
she was breathless from her struggle
withthe big word,
"Then,n he said, laughter lifting 81
his quiet, brown eyes-"then II was Mar
gerry saw to,dayT
Eyes, and | think indignantly, "sh'
was all wrong, Idon't think you're ont
bit awkward"
"EhF
~ think you're downright nice, Ant
some day-not now, because the girl
said | mpstn't-but some day, wheI
we're better acquainted, I'm going =
ask you to let me ride on your little
white pony"
He bowed graVely,
Certainly"
"Its 80 sweet" growing friendly anC
confidential. "Do you know that las
summeF-keep still, Kitty Kearncy," e
the pussy, which was writhingly attempt
ing an esCape-"last summer MaFgery
who Is the grandest artist that ever
lived, think, made sketch Of II when
1t was out at pasture, Just walt here
and I'll run and get 1t. Come on
Twig,"
Away abe scampered, her little dog
after her. Smiling amusedly, the tall
brown gentleman by the gate waited her
return.
Iu about fifteen minutes she was back
with fiat book under her arm, :,
"It is in there, and he is eating grass !"
He took the book rather difidenty,
but very Curiously, too, II could NOT
matter. Sketches were made To be look.
ed at, Aud this was a sketch Of hisown
pet pony,
HBy George"
He almost dropped the book.
"0h, please, please" Cr,ed BERTHE, In
an agony OF remorse. " quite for.
got your picture was In there. What
won't Margery say? Oh, never mind
the pony's picture nowl"
She snatohed the book, turned, ran
home as fast her fat legs would carry
hsr, leaving Olive Sterling crimsoning
and laughing as henever had crimsoned
and laughed before.
swell, I've seen myself for once as
others see me, thanks to the pretty
onel"
aedropped his Eyeglasses and saunt.
cred back to the house. For several
days he neither saw nor heard anything
OF his neighbbrS. Then he CHANGED 10
encounter BERTHE,
,'Oh, please, | can't talk to you," the
child said. "The girls say I'm $50 unre-
liable. You know Margery caught me
when I was sneaking her sketch.book
back, and made me tell her where ! had
taken 1t TO-"
"And then?"
"rnen," confessed BERTHE, with con.
trlte gulp, "then she sat down and
criedlp
II sayl Mop
"She did. There she Is now. oh, Mar
gerry, Margeryp
The gill had come unexpectedly
around the corner, To avoid meeting
was impossible. She was quite near her
sister and the master OF "Tne Oaks
"Thls is Mr.. Sterling, Margery. You
know you weren't reg-regularly intro
duCed before. I've been telling him
how you cried about
"a delicious blush Of modification,
regret, pleading, swept across Margery's
wild.rose face. Frankly she held out
her hand, lifted her clear eyes,
"lam so sorry for having been 80
rude. viii you forgive me, Il you CAM
And come over and play tennis this
Aiternoou2"
"rhank you. Ycs!n he said.
"Why, MArgery,n the others said to
her, when he, after a rafting good
game, had returned home, "he Is Just
splendtdl"
Good looking, tool"
"And genlleman!p
"All threel" decided 1Iargery,
promptly, as she sought the sketch Of
their new neighbor aud deliberately
tore 1t up,
She Is Mrs. Olive Sterling now.
Berthe was her bridesmaid,
IT'S sad to sec woman growing old before her
All broEsn.down and hopeless whom life should
hold is prime;
She feels herself burden when blessing she
And t oSss % y death to bring her release from
misery.
II these poor, discouraged women
who sulIer from diseases peculiar to
women could only know that health
could be iegained by tue use Of DR..
Plerce'B Favorite. Prescription, how
eagerly they would hasten to avail them.
selves Of 1t, They ought know 1t, and
try II. Every woman who Is still healthy
ought to DO told about the wonderful
virtue in this medicine, and understand
thut II is safeguard against the terrible
diseases common 10 her sex. II Is guar.
dRieed 10 give satiGlaction or money paid