South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-03-11

your chances with the beaux."
"What has girl Of my age TO do
With beaux?" retorted Maud. "I'm
not out Of school yet"
"Don't you think you will ever
be married ?"
"Nhy, yes, 1 don't know but I
do, bnt / want to learn how to man.
age home before I think OF mstri-
mony; and l have no time to spend
in nero f'rtipg--snd don't be-
lieve in it, either. / like bows a.
long as they are good comrades, but
when they begin to get silly and soft
l can't abide them.
81 fsncied you and young WAL
lace were very good friends the last
time Twas at your home"
Yea, We were, but he got into
the habit of calling out to me, sHel-
10, Maud,' when ne met me in the
street, aud / cut him altogether.
After time he called on mamma
for an explanation. She sent nm
for me, and ! told him / would not
recognize any young man who did
not lift his hat to me when he ac-
costed me on the street; that nv
papa and brothers always did so,
and that l had no desire to allow
myself to be on more familiar terms
with any other gentleman than l
was with them. He said it was
simply absurd, but mamma told
him that, although l might have
been little abrupt, she thought /
was right. lie bows and lifts his
hat to me now very politely since
then, but that is the limit of our ac-
quaintsnce. 1t was good lesson
for him, for he treats all the other
girls with more courtesy now"
"But Of course it has given you
reputation for being very prim and
particular" said giddy Agnes.
81 don't mind that; q girl can
not be too particular sometimes. If
you are IN q college town with three
hundred young men you would far
better have Their respect than their
admiration without esteem"
"Well, you are funny girl -
ono, l don't think am 8, very
funny ! am simply plain, cve-
ry day girl. But my neighbor, Sa-
rah Bates is a funny girl. She
amuses herself with the students
continually. She flirts with them
and allows them to make love to
her. Last term a party of seven of
them fixed up plot to call on her
severally the same evening. They
did so, and she allowed each one to
kiss her good night. 1t came ont
as q blind item the next week in
one OF the college papers. Almost
any girl would have decided to 90
into convent to hide her mortifica-
ton, but Sarah took the insulting
screed as compliment. Now l
call her funny girl.
During all this time Maud sat
quietly sewing. Now she brought
finished cambria cover for my in
spection.
Gould any ono but an every
day girl have dono that ! she
askcd.
1t was made with exquisite neat
ness, the buttons set on and the
button holes worked with the great
est skill and accuracy.
81 like plain sewing" said she.
81 have never done much fancy
work-there is never time at our
house. Mamma says when / have
learned to sew nicely / can try to
cut my own dresses and that will
be fine. Don't You think so, Aun-
tie ?"
But before could reply, came
Agnes next question
"What do you do, poor girl, to
amuse yourself?"
"Why, I'm interested all the
time, and l never think about be-
ing simply amused Pm not a
child exactly. / have my horse and
dog and cats, and my girl friends,
and the sewing club and the Y. Z.
>. @. Il. meetings, and church
work, and music, and reading, and
lectures, and Of course help entev.
tain our friends. Then there are
invitations to teas and to play ten
mis-, which I accept il | have time.
/ am always as busy and as happy
as can DO with all these plain.
everyday duties, and have no de-
sire to neglect any Of them simply
Tor tho sake OF amusing myself %
Dear girl readers, this is no fancy
sketch. "Maude," as / have nam
ed her, is real, bright, wide-awake
young person. She Is o fayorite
with al who know her we'll, and is
acknowledged on every hand to be
stylish, brilliant and handsome.
Neither can she be called poor
girl. The prime and wholesome
fact is that she has strength and
beauty Of character TO understand
that young girls life means some
thing to the world and to herself,
and that it had much better be
spent in usefulness than in fri
volity.
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