Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-10-26
JENNY WREN.


surned to look again. 1t was such sweet
and dainty face, with eyes of deep. lus.
trous. golden brown; skin a trihe dusky,
IKE a sunbrowned Neapolitan but with a
rudy, pomegranate redness of the cheeks
and lips and a great abundance of fine.
brown hair that shone like satin, it was
so smooth and bright. Her name was
Etoile North, but nothing could have been
more inappropriate, for she was not in the
least like star, and of all stars she was
most unlike the North star except perhans
In certain steady, unchanging attributes
Of character but dimly suspected even bv
her most intimate friends.
Besides having brown eyes, brown hair
and a brown complexion, she had a great
liking for brown in color, and nearly ali her
costumes, especially in the autumn and
winter time, were made of various shades
OF brown, and for that reason somebody
once compared her to jenny wren. The
name chung to her. 1t was one of those
lucky hits that seem kind of inspiration,
ana before the end OF the season people
had nall forgotten that she was called
Etolle North. Even to strangers she was
often playfully introduced as Jenny Wren,
with few laughing words of explanation
and the addition of her full name. With
- O"h oSA JcILJ wren was n UNIVERSAL
favorite. Among the other she was greatly
liked, and young men who had no sisters
often wished for a sister like her. But
when it was one day announced that she
was engaged to marry Clement Thorne
there was almost an cutlery of astonish-
ment and something like indignation, the
latter sentiment being Occasioned by a
feeling OF personal interest, almost amount
ing to possession, which nearly every one
unconsciously experienced in regard TO
Jenny Wren.
Clement Thorne was a poet-handsome
talented, lmpecunious as poets are apt to
De, and admired by the girls in Miss
Norths set 10 pitch Of enthusiasm sell
dom reached except for men of his stamp
unusual, magnetic, personally beautiful
and therefore for a variety of reasons
quite the rage" at least for a season or
two.
Our Jenny, our charming, sweet, de-
mure, little brown Jenny, that we are all
IN love with more OF less, carried off by
this brilliant bird of paradiseI' said the
young men among themselves. "Well,
but why notf Since we all admire her who
should not' Who would have supposed
1t, though, and how will it turn out, chr"
And with few more wondering excla-
brown maiden's affairs was quietly &C.
cepted, for though all these young men
really cared for Jenny and loved ber-as a
sister-not one of them was in the least bit
in love with her, and as a rule the most
anectionate brothers are quite philosoph-
ical when it is only a sister who prefers
another man.
But with Jenny's SISTERS il WAS ouite
another thing
What in the world can he see in herSn
"She is quite unsuited for the wife of
such a man"
"He will tire Of her in a weekp'
"She will die of neglect and ennui befora
the honeymoon is overr'
"He will break her heart flirting with
other womenr'
Such were a few of the EXPLANATIONS
among those of her own sex that greeted |
the announcement of Miss North,s engage
ment TO MIR. Thorne. and when the first az
element had passed away one out of the |
bevy of girls who had been discussing ths |
news was observed to be paler than usual |
and when she spoke in a low. concentrated |
tone her words attracted immediate at.
tentiop. for IL was prettv oeneralIv undsr.
stood that the cold prond Miss Hammer.
ton had at last lost her heart wbila Uatan-
ing to the handsome poet reading his ovn
passionate love verses not a faxv ~ ,vh;ch
had been inspired by her beauty and roval
bearing.
There is no such need for astonish-
ment," she said, with a slight toucb ~
scorn. "Mr. Thorne's choice only proves
that he is human after ALL thou9b ws
have been accustomed to regard him as a
being belonging TO OLYMPUS, like mos.
men of genius, though he writes so beau.
tifully Of poverty and the stines of adver.
sity, he does not pine for personal exneri.
ence in such matters. He a door man
and he is determined to marry money. We
all know our dear little ,Jenny's worth md
sweetness. but she is not a mans beauty
and her charm for Clement-for Mr.
Thorne mean-lies in the fact that she
is the sole heir to her uncle's milliops.n
"Ob, Therese, you are too cvnicalp, ex-
claimed Kate OHara. a warm hearted