Wichita eagle., 1890-02-08

Ono Attempts to Rnle Beyond Her Tfzna,
While the Other Gracefully Abdicates-
Two Of the prettiest girls in town where
pretty girls are by no means rare have 70
Gently passed the point beyond which they
cannot with propriety be spoken of as 'girls.
Both Of them once possessed unusual beauty;
both were considered, though in widely diff
ferent ways, attractive. They were spoken OF
as ''belles" in the circle in which they moved.
One of them, who, with httle touching
up of the cheeks and eyebrows and the as
sistance of a skillful dressu,afeer, is yet hand
some, sil considers herself ''belle," and
makes her desire for admiration and social
supremacy uncomfortab&y evident. Sine is
unmerciful in her criticism of the younger
girls who are just entering her set; she hikes
20 snub and disconcert them: she speaks of
Lhern as ''ehits" and schoolgirls. She has no
feminine friends, and as her old admirers
marry or desert her, she fnds her native
place growing moro and more duh, and finally
gets out of it as often rs possible
Every summer, with many huge trunks
flied with gorgeous clothes, she goes to
large hotel at some gay resort and spends the
season in showing Of" Some people laugh
at her, but there are some who admire, and
belle a few years longer
The other belle belongs to family rich IN
children, beauty, health and good temper.
Her dresses have never been cossly nor espe-
cially elegant, but DO one ever stopped to
think what sins had on She lis still pretty,
without touching up, bUt the first fresh bloom
Of her beauty has departed, and people are
beginning to lament that she doesn't marry.
Not that they make i'll nasured remarks
on the subject, but they say she is not the
kind of person who ought 70 be zap old maid. !"
She is so capable, so domestic, 50 sweet
tempered, so fitted to be wife and mother,
that she ought certainly to be the mistress Of
home.
1t is rumored, moreover, that she has had
a great many offers; and it is known, though
not through her telling Of them, that she has
had several To be sur, in talking over her
suitors the gossips agree that they were nice
enough young men, but none Of them hah
good enough for her 1t seems 10 bs on gen-
eral principles only that they wish she had
married
Meanwhile, before any one realizes what
she is doing, or that she means TO do it, still
less to think it is time for her to do it, it is
found that this belle has abdfcatedi There is
no formal announcement Of the fact, but 20
il e
She goes seldom to parties Sbe ceases 70
act in theatrioals or pose IN tableaux; she
manages instead for those who do. A.
church fairs she is found no longer Is flower
sIri, or peasant waitress, or gypsy fortune
teller N coins and gay sarfs; instead, she
smiles at you ocross the apron tekae, or
shares tia distrscting laoors of the supper
committee. or is placed IN charge q the chill
dren's march
As sweet, serene and gay as ever. el1e
shares toe enjoynen. OF every fezsal eoca
shoa, aEi ADDS 70 its csarEi. But people
come to hs- nov with compiiinaEts, not for
hezSelf. but for ner sister Eext In age Just
budding inso vorAnly beauty; or for tie
little brother, who PLACED the page % veil:
or tse younger sisscr, who ~as ~ quaint and
Sracsi1l in the rlinues@ She nuShes with
prsce and pleasure as such psezsuns t.Eags
are sad 20 hsr
She is ye. uore pleased when gTacioS.
word is spoken concerning tie other sister.
tie shy and awkward one, NOT blessed vita
toe family beauty, and taxes pasns hersek 70
nanEon, when tssress are praised, bow sweet
tempered tast cue ia, and bou Leapszi o.
hoz,e What she hsrsen Is ~ home oniy rbe
tired house ~iie whose borden soe hfss and
tee little hock 70 vaaxa s3e iSa eeeocd motnsr
viii ever kHov
One cannot b belle for -hoie Efe. Tie
auseco<Des when, IL . giri ~ou.d not be pushed
down, she nsuss scp down. unless iadeed sac
VIII step UP instead Taas u = aiways poza
bie 70 %. aaS sae VINO 4oes II ioees ncsairs
and gains nroca. Even hsr besSy eesealoe
net vansh, hus merely changes "a kind
People may 10. say 50 o<saa. 'HS~ pretty
she Iooau.' bet they WI Be zacrs tbaa syes
likely q says How lsvsu 80 hP