The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-31
H NEW YORK GIRL.
Jenny Did Her an Injustice, and Wa!
Sorry for It.

GL0 uI6SS1uS GRASS pi1uIlS around QeI
neck the old piece of white lace Aunt
Barbara had given her.
80 Jenny! only wish I could go!
l wouldn't care what I 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. cts just
my luck to be laid up with this horrid
cough"
"And it's just my luck to have to
wear this old blue cashmere" said
Jenny.
Il do wonder what the girl from
New York will have onI' and Madge
looked reflective.
"Madge! You've said that at least
twenty times! OF course she will be
dressed to death. She won't lose such
a 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 I had a
good look at her. I only wish I could
see all her clothes. I 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 a lot to tell me
when you get back"
Indeed I shan't! I'm 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
Sill's store! Evidently so surprised
that Ella should know anyone who
would wear an old water proof cloak
and carry a cotton umbrella. I never
will forgive her that look"
"Now, Jenny! you're so sensitive,
you know. Perhaps you only imagined
she looked surprised"
mo imagination about it. 1 guess I
can see. Ionly wish she weren't going
to be at the party. 1t will just spoil it
for me. Now, how does this arrange
ment strike you2" turning for her sis
ter's inspection.
well, you look very nice, consider
ing. I don't like that breastpin exact
ly; but of course you're obliged to have
something to hold the lace. I wish you
had some flowers; they always add so
much to 4 dress"
FLOWERS! at this time of the year!
and in Westbridgel You might as well
wish I had diamonds"
Jenny, isn't it time you were going,
my dear7" called Aunt Barbara's mild
voice from the foot of the back stair
way; and Jenny caught up her water
proof cloak, threw a ''fascinator" over
her curly head, and, with a parting
glance in the glass, hurried down into
the sitting room, Madge following with
the lamp.
''You look very well-very we'll in
deed" said Aunt Barbara.
ooh! Aunt Barbara! 1 know I'll be
the worst dressed girl there"
"Try not to think of your clothes,
my dear, and be SO pleasant that other
people won't think of them either. You
won't enjoy the party if you let envy
and discomfort into your heart"
81 know-but it isn't always easy,to
be pleasant, particularly when one has
to wear a thick, dark dress to a party.
But it's no use to talk about it. We
can't help being poor, and it's no dis
grace. Is Huldah ready3 1 might as
we'll go out the kitchen way"
Old Huldah, who had lived with
Aunt Barbara for ten years, was wait
ing by the kitchen stove, mUf1ed in a
big plaid shawl and a thick black
worsted hood. Jenny didn't like to
take the old woman 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. II amt never seen you
dressed out for a real party"
"Oh, I'm not worth looking at, HUI
dab. I haven't any fnery, you know,
and you've seen me in this old blue
cashmere fifty times"
II hearn down to the store this
mornin' that that girl that s visitin' to
Squire Eastman's had flowers sent all
the way from New York." said HUI
dab, slowly. Come by express. I
guess she'll be as fine as fiddle"
"Oh, of course" replied Jenny, a
little sharply. And then they tramped
on in silence, the hard now ~crunching
under their feet. The people in West
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