The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-29
A WHITNEY GIRL.
BY KATHERINE BATES.

~After all, she looks best in Man,
hat"
mo, she doesn't. Mans needs littt
more loose hair around her face; a!
long as hers won't curl, she had bettel
wear Pegs broad one that sets wei
down on her head"
The girl who stood before the glas!
trying on her sisters hats turned iin
patiently. Good gracious!" she said
~What earthly difference does it make
just how 1 do look? If only you girl.
could make up your minds that alt
real down homely, life would be goct
deal simpler for us all. Every time an
asked anywhere we 60 through all this
and no one cares two pins how one o!
tho Whitney girls looks!"
The four older sisters locked very un
comfortable. Don't talk like thar
Jennie" Peg, the oldest, said, at last
"Well, it is true" Jennie answered
"'You never had the sort of times other
girls have, did you? / know Nan and
1 never had any attention shown us
from the time we were chosen last to
play games at school up to now, when
WE are only asked to moonlight pic
MICS and surprise parties by the boy
who makes up his mind to go too late
10 get any other girl. i suppose it twas
the same way with you, and Liza and
Sue"
The five women stood and looked
at each other They were all tall and
painfully thin, with prominent check
bones and sunken eyes. Their mother
had died Of consumption. and it was
confidently expected in the neighbor'
ghaod that the girls would eventually
Ego Off. as she. bad gone, Jennie was
: less pale and thin than the others; her
eyes, though deepset, were blue, not
gray, and her hair had q slightly red
dish shade to it, which made her look
more positively alive than her sisters.
They had thought her pretty, had rev.
eled in the belief that she was popular.
had rejoiced that,she seemed gay and
happy. liza had once called Pegs at
rtcntion to the merriment of her laugh
81 declare" she had said, 'she- laughs
right out just the way 1 have Away S
wanted to all my life, only there never
was any reason big enough to justify
It. am glad she and Nan don't have
to scrimp quite as we did" Jennie had
never before spoken as to-day, and now
was heartily ashamed of herself.
d. 81 don't know what made me say
NIL that, she said, apologetically, look.
ing fata the panied faces. "Of course
lam glad to be Whitney, and we have
plenty of good times if we are poor and
plain"
"Yes," said Liza, "and the Whitneys
have always been respected in the
church here Grandpa and pa were
both respected highly, and each was
superintendent of Sunday school five
years, you know"
Eyes, of course they wcre," said Jen.
mic. Tremendously respected-so i:
does not much matter that we girls
-aren't-wcll, what the Springer girls
are"
THANK heavens!" said Liza, eve
aren't as foolish5in our talk as they
are" !E:tt5.' Z l! 41 ~
7 = &
Jennie wore her own hat when she
went that afternoon with Jim Russell
to the basket picnic over by the river
She put on the freshly-ironed linen
lawn that had been Mans the summer
before, pinning it at the neck with
legs pin which had Grandma Whit
:Dey's hair in It. r frtt GH
CLOTHES look just like me-" she NUT
tered to herself, "and like Peg and Su.
and Nan and Liza"
1t was II long drive to the bluffs
Usually when Jennie went to picnic.
with one of the boys she made nn eff
fprt to be"sprlghtly;". to-day the un
,ryonfen bitter streak had mastery o
her and she sat in almost utter science
even when ether buggies passed then
with gayly laughing Springer or Brow
girls in them.
HE might have asked one of then
IT he'd wanted a lively time" sh,
thoughtj and then remembered tina
he probably had, and had then asked
her to show some one was glad to &,
with him. ~, .EF .-r, -,
jim, too, was very quiet. He drov,
.earefully over the deep ruts in the road
his whole attention apparently cen
tered gTfif3ng aslitte it,jrty q posi-
bic to the springs OF his buggy. Al
they cpNUjeee oe ent9f tbesss1fYl
drive he suddenly turned to her.
"Jennie,'' the, sa!ds II iruye. Away
liked you first rate, as you Know. d,
you suppose you could ever love m
enough to marry, me?", NIX.
She stared at him,
Was one Of the. Whitney girls having
proroml' Another feeling succeeded