Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-03-26
TWO SOCIETY QUEENS.
One Attempts to Rule q eyOnd Her
Time, While the Other Grace
fully Abdicates.

Two OF the prettiest girls in a town
where pretty girls are by no means rare
have recently passed the point beyond
which they cannot with propriety be
spoken OF as girls Both of them
once possessed unusual beauty; bott
wei e considered. though in widely diff
erent ways. attractive They were
spoken of as "belles'' in the circle in
which they moved.
One of them, who, with a little
touching up of the cheeks and eyebrows
and the assistance of a skillful dress
maker, Is yet handsome, still considers
herself a "beile," and makes her desire
for admiration and social supremacy
uncomfOrtably evident. Sle Is unmer-
cIful in her criticism of the younger
girls who are just entering her set; SHE
likes u snub AMI discOnceTt them; She
speaks OF them as ''chits' and school
girls She has no feminine friends,
AMI as her old admirers IN irry or desert
her, she inls her native place growing
more and more duh, and finally gets
out of 1t as often as possible.
Every summer, with many huge
trunks filled with gorgeous clothes sht
goes to large hotel at some CAV resort
and spends the ason IN showing off. -
Some people laugh at her, but there are
some who admire, and she viii be able,
doubtless, TO play at being belle few
years longer.
The other belle belongs to a family
rich In children, beauty, health and
good temper. Her dresses have never
been costly nor especially elegant, but
no one ever stopped TO think what she
had on She IS still pretty, without
touching up, but the first fresh bloom
OF her beauty has departed, and people
are beginning To lament that she dOesn I
marry.
Not that they make ill-natuTed re-
marks on the subject but they say she
i not TIA. kind Of person who ought to
be ''an old maid"
She is 50 capable, so domestic, So
sweet tempered. 50 fitted TO be u wife
aI.J mother, that she on yht certainly to
be the mistress of home.
Il Is rumOTrd moreover, that she las
had a great many oilers; and It l.
known, though not through her telling
of th'm. that she las haI several. To
b. sure, In talking over her suffers the
gusS Is agree that they were nice enoug Il
young men, but none of them half good
enough for her. IL seems To be on gen
eral principles only that they wish she
had MARI e J.
Meanwhile, before any one realizes
what she Is doing, OF that she meant to
do il, still less TO think it is time for
her 10 do it, il Is found that this belle
has abdicatedl There is no formal an
nouncement OF the fact, but So 1t is.
She goes seldom to parties. She
ceases TO act in theatricals or
pose IN tableauS; she manages"
instead for those who do. At
church fairs she is found no longer
as flower RI, or peasant waitress,
or gypsy fortune teller III coins and gay
scaTfS; instead she smiles at you across
the apron table, Or shares the distract
ing labOrs of the supper COMMITTEES, or
Is placed IN charge OF the children ;
march.
As sweet, serene and gay as ever, she
shares the enjoyment OF every festal
occasion, and adds TO its charm. B 1t
pope come To her now with cOmpli-
men :, no; for herself, bI. for her sis
t-r mkt in age, Just budding into
WO,nanly beauty; OF for the little
brother, who played the page so well;
OF the younger sister, who looked so
quaint and graceful il the minuet- She
@ ISheS with pride and pleasure as SUCH
pleasant things are said 10 her.
She Is yet more pleased when a gra-
ciOus word Is spoken concerning the
other sister, the shy and awkward one,
not blessed with the family be iuty. aud
takes pains herself to mention, when
the rest are praised, how sweet temper
ed that one is and how helpful at home.
What she herself is at home only the
tired housewife whose burden she lifts
and the little tiOckS TO whom she Is a
mother will ever know.
One cannot be belle for a whole life,
The time comes when, If girl would
not be pushed down, she must sep
down, unless in Iced she Will step up in
s.eaf. That it is always possible to do,
and she who does it, loses nothing and
gains much Even her beauty often
does not vanish, but merely changes in
kind.
People may not say so often, ''IIow
pretty she looSs!'' but they will be more
than ever likely to say. "HoS lovely
she Youths CODlDlniOI.