The Forrest City times., 1894-06-15
A QUAKER JULIET.
How She Kept Her Pled dge to a
 Worldly Lover.

In the beginning of the present cen tury Philadelphia was quaint and picturesque city. Commercial greed had not obliterated old landmarks, and picturesque features were protec- ted alike by municipal ordinances and public sentiment. Rows of fine trees bordered the streets, and these were cared for and tended by householders. This was especially the case on Third, near Walnut, which was made beauti- full by line of sycamores reaching to Spruce street.
 On the Walnut street side were three two story brick houses, each hav ing gardens on the street, and in the one nearest Dock, at the close of the eighteenth century, lived Richard Pennell, an Englishman and Quaker. He was tall and very strongly built. and so austere in face that it was gen. erally believed he had never laughed in his life. and was regarded as an ex- cellent illustration of the popular opinion as to Quaker babies. But, although dry and saturnine,in manner, Pennell was an upright Christian man, and did many kindly acts in quiet way. But all the same, it was all in stance of the caprice of nature that he should be the father of girl so peer lessly beautiful as Polly Pennen
 She was now nineteen, his only daughter Her two brothers were at sea following their fathers calling, as he had been mariner the greater part of his life. Pollys mother was member of the Church of England in her youth, and although her daughter was ostensibly Quakeress, she secret ly rebelled against the narrow. color less life that pervaded and ordered her fathers household.
 It goes without saying that Miss Polly did not want admirers. but the father was unceasing in vigilance and repulsed advances with bluffness un- mitigated by any conventional cNility.
 At this time there was but one fam ilv in this state that, tried by recog- nized standards, could claim to be aris- tocratic, and that was the Hamiltons, of the Woodlands.
 The eldest and most beautiful of the Hamilton girls was Rebecca. This young lady regarded the usual social conventions as restraints made for common people, and so disdained them. made friends with whom she pleased, and vet was every inch an aristocrat and grand demoiselle.
 After much persuasion hr Pennell had permitted his daughter to take lessons in music from Madame Genet, and here Polly met Beckey Hamilton, who at once became the beautiful qua ker girls fast friend. and not long aft- erward. just as the Arch street meet ing was dismissing on Sunday, after enjoying an exhilarating period of silence for two hours, they were amazed by the appearance of MISS Hamilton. of the Woodlands, sailing down Arch street in a dress of the tune -a beaver hat two feet in the briM, crowned with feathers like bunch of broom corn, leg-of-mutton sleeves, muir and gloves laced to the elbows, at- tended by her colored groom in laced hat and coat. The dauntless young lady folded Polly in her ample em- brace. kissed her, and, in her usual resolute voice, proposed then and there that she come out to the Woodlands to dinner.
 Like a flock of startled hens the Ouaker matrons rescged Polly from the wilderness of tulle and India muslin, the fashionable dress of the time. Miss Rebecca laughed joyonsly as she re- signed her friend and walked away and then poor Polly was taken in hand warned. entreated to avoid the worlds