The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1898-06-24

Still, mother tells me not to care
What such unthinking people say;
She says she knows I'll make them
stare
If God but let's me live, some day;
"For even Washington" says she,
"No doubt was often sad because
Folks told him he would never be
The man his humble father was"
e. S. Kiser in Cleveland Leader
Miss TQlO|n0de' S Receipt.
Fluffy Frivols, you do look
sight" and Miss Tailormade sat up as
straight as possible in the straightest
chair in the room and tried to look
severe.
If her name was not Miss Tailor
made, and if Fluffy Frivolss name
was not Fluffy Frivols, they were ap-
propriate names, and every uptown
girl who knows them will recognize
them at once.
1t was at Fluffy Frivols's house the
other day, in the apartments devoted
to that pretty young woman, and very
pretty rooms usually, though on this
particular day they were close and
warm and dark. Fluffy Frivols her
self was buried in the pillows of big
couch, a round, shiny little red nose
showing and pair of drenched red
eyes, such eyes as might belong to a
modern Dolores. who can't look pretty
when she cries, rather than to the or
binary pink-and-white, violet-eyed
light-hearted Fluffy Frivols.
YES" Miss Tailormade remarked
again, with even more severity and
displeasure in her tones, you do look
a sight, Fluffy Frivols, and that is
just the way expected you to look
and just the reason l came around
here"
Miss Tailormade herself looked like
particularly fresh damask rose. Her
very best efforts could not bring any,
expression of severity to her face, and
even her gown forgot to be severe, as
1t found itself trying to follow pretty
curves in and out, and had an air of its
own quite unlike that of the ordinary
tailormade gowns, and which was in
finitely becoming. Miss Tailormade' S
friends say that she knows very we'll
there is nothing she looks so well in,
which may be true. Hasn't Carroll
Beckwith himself said that the high
est form of art was the decoration OF
the human form? If he didn't, that
is what pretty pupil understood him
to say, which is the same thing, to all
intents and purposes.
And meantime Fluffy Frivols drew a
long, weak sigh, and in weak, fading
away little voice murmured:
you are very cruel
Eyes, | intend to be-" replied Miss
Tailormade. STILL" with an attempt
at great severity, I'm like surgeon
and 1 do it for your welfare. Pm
( Pm-oh, dear-what do they call il
when the doctor digs down after bull.
let or whatever it is? Oh, yes,
/ know, I'm probing the wound to make
/ 1t well. knew you'd be all in mess
this morning and I've come to get you
| out of IT.
Il shall never feel any better" said
I Fluffy Frivols in the same weak voice
and with a world of untold grief Ii
her tones while the pretty French mait
1 bathed her temples sympathetically
! with violet water.
"Oh, yes, you will" answered Miss
Tailormade cheerfully. you viii
feel much better after l have taker
you out walking"
4 "Felice, you may open one of tn,
windows and lay out Miss Fluff's walk
ing gown and then you may go.
will do everything else that is neces
sary."
you know l have broken my en-
gagement with Jack?" said Fluff,
Frivols in faint, heart-broken tones.
! well, of course, l didn't know II
but I suspected you would do som
such foolish thing after last night.
suppose he came around to talk it owe
this morning?"
yes"
"And you have been crying almos
all night?"
Eyes"
"And you went down to see him al
teary and red-eyed?'
yves, l suppose So"
"Well, | don't wonder. / shouldn'
nave blamed him If he had broken thl
engagement himself. Fluffy Frivols,
you are a regular little goose. That
Is Just what l came to tell you.
learned lesson when was quite lit
tie girl, years before l came out, and
have never forgotten it. never cry
If can possibly help it. and l wouldn't
lose minutes sleep for ten Of the
best men in New York-or one-that' s
more important
Il learned that from Southern girl
who was friend Of sisters. She was
such a pretty girl, and she just tried to
make herself as pretty as ever she
could, and to keep herself pretty.
81 suppose all girls try to be pretty
for that matter or think they do, but
1t was really almost a religion with
her, and she was an awfully nice girl
too, as sweet as could be, always ready
to do nice things for other girls, ant
she had the loveliest mother.
ut was when we were living in Phil
adelphia l was only about sixteen
and thought everything sister did wal
great fun. and | liked to be arounC
with her and her friends as much as
could.