The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-08-24
THE NEW YORK GIRL.
Jenny Did Her an Injustice, and
Was Sorry for It.

dressing glass pinning around her neck |
the old piece of white lace Aunt Bar
bara had given her.
20 Jenny! l only wish l could go!
l wouldn't care what | had to wear"
cried Madge, who. with red flannel
bandage about her throat and a bottle
of cough mixture in one hand, sat by
the fire watching her sister 'It's just
my luck to be laid up with this horrld
cold'
"And it's just my luck to have to
wear this old blue cashmere" said
Jenny
81 do wonder what the girl from New
York will have onr' and Madge locke
reflective.
"Madge! You've said that at least
twenty times! OF course she will be
dressed to death. She won't lose such
chance as this to show Off"
.'The street dress she had on yester-
day was perfectly lovely!" said Madge.
''She went by here twice, and had a
good look at her. | only wish I could
see all her clothes. l might get some
ideas for my own. Find out how long
she is going to stay with Ella Eastman,
Jenny, and do get well acquainted
with her. so you'll have lot to tell me
when you get back"
Indeed shan't! Pm not going to
toady to her for anybody She is
stuck up enough as it is. If you'd just
seen the way she looked at me when
Ella Eastman introduced us yesterday
in Sills store! Evidently SO surprised
that Ella should know anyone who
would wear an old water proof cloak
and carry cotton umbrella. Inever
will forgive her that look"
"Now, Jennie! you're SO sensitive,
you know. Perhaps you only imagined
she looked surprised"
mo imagination about it. l guess l
can see. only wish she weren't going
to be at the party. 1t will just spoil it
for me. Now, how does this arrange
ment strike your turning for her sis
ter's inspection.
"Well, you look very nice, consider
ing. don't like that breastpin exact
ly; but of course you're obliged to have
something to hold the lace l wish
you had some flowers; they always add
SO much to dress"
Flowers! at this time of the year!
and in Westbridge! You might as well
wish had diamonds"
Jenny. isn't it time you were going,
my dear?'' called Aunt Barbara's mild
voice from the foot of the back stair.
way; and Jenny caught up her water
proof cloak, threw ''fascinator" over
her curly head, and, with parting
glance in the glass, hurried down into
the sitting-room, Madge following with
the lamp.
You look very well-very well, in
deed" said Aunt Barbara
''Oh! Aunt Barbara! know I'll be
the worst dressed girl there"
TRY not to think of your clothes, my
dear, and be so pleasant that other peo.
pie won't think of them either. You
won't enjoy the party if you let envy
and discomfort into your heart"
Il know-but it isn't always easy to
be pleasant, particularly when one has
to wear thick, dark dress to party.
But it's no use to talk about it, We
can't help being poor and it's no dis
grace. Is Huldah ready? I might as
well go out the kitchen way"
Old Huldah, who had lived with Aunt
Barbara for ten years, was waiting by
the kitchen stove, muffled in a big plaid
shawl and thick black worsted hood
Jenny didn't like to take the old WON
an out at night, but her aunt wouldn't
let her go through the streets alone
You'd oughter er let me see how you
looked" said Huldah, as they went
along the path leading to the front gate
81 amt never seen you dressed out fol
a real party"
''Oh, I'm not worth looking at, HUI
; dab. ! haven't any fnery, you know,
and you've seen me in this old blue
cashmere fifty times"
81 hearn down to the store thi
mornin' that that girl that's visitin to
Squire Eastman's had flowers sent all
, the way from New York." said Huldah
: slowly. Come by express | gues
: she'll be as fine as a fiddle"
, ''Oh. of course" replied Jenny, lit
tie sharply And then they trampet
on in silence, the hard snow crunchinl
under their feet. The people in West
: bridge never cleaned off their sidewalks
: in winter; the snow always lay on then
until thawed by the sun.
DR.. Wright's house, where the party
was given, was lighted up from th'
, ground floor to the attic; and Jennie
: felt quite excited when she saw tina
! the steps were covered with carpet, an.
that the doctors boy, with white cot
ton gloves on his hands, stood in th'
! vestibule waiting to open the door
She bade Huldah good night" and RAJ
lightly up the steps, wondering if, un
der the circumstances, she ought Il
speak to Tim. She thought 1t woul'
= hardly do not to recognize him in SOM
way, as he was Huldah's nephew; 81
= she compromised on little nod, AM
: then hurried up the broad fight 0
stairs to the second story. in tae wax