Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1899-01-06

4 .nN. never iAA te't ANt ANfN ~ y
II can pnsMbly hel M, and I wouldn't
lose minutes sleEp for ten Of the
hest men I'm New T6fk-or one-thats
more inr,rtant
IT learned thnt from Southern girl
who was friend Of sisters She was
such q pretty girl. ard she just tried to
mako herself as pretty as ever she
cdUid. and to keep hfrself pretty.
"I Hppose all sirA try to be pretty,
for that matter, or jRk. they DO, but
St was rellly - lsinb. with
hsr and she l.s7avfuily nice girl.
too. as vojt Sud be. always ready
to DO nice things for other girls, and
she had the lovellest mother.
at was when we were living in Phil
adelnha. was only about sixteen,
and thought everything sister did was
great FUN, and I liked to be around
with her and her friends as much as
could.
"Wen. Milllcent-wasn't that a
pretty. old-fashioned name?-was en-
gagged TO Southern man. and she had
some trouble, something such as you
have had with Jack. while she was
visiting us. He thought she had been
receiving too much attention from
other men while she was with us. He
was a hol-helded fellow, and he wrote
her a very sharp letter which was
| equivalent to breaking the engage
ment
Now. most girls would have been
so angry they wouli simply have said
that If he couldn't trust them he
needn't, and let him go and just break
their hearts about it But that WASH t
the way Millicent de, not a bit. 1
think she felt pretty badly about it,
too, for she was ysfs fond of him.
The letter came one Hernoon just be-
fore a big hail shl Bnd sister were
going to. Ssteh.ssd afterward that
IInGas%sops MQIiGej sit more
quiet than Us, II ~ night, but that
only made her pretAer than ever, and
every one was wild lbout her
"I walked up when they got home,
and crept into their room to ask them
all about everything and poor Milll-
cent looked like an lngel, but she was
thinking more OF that horrid man in
the South than Of Anything else. She
cried just wee little bit then, but
that was the only time | ever saw her
cry.
"Sister hugged her, and told her not
to mind, that she would just let him
60 and never have anything more to
do with him. You Wsnt sleep a wink
tonight thinking abb hut it, Millicent,
she said
oh, yes, shall said Millicent,
winking back the Is and trying to
smile If / didn't, 4 should be put
ting aside one Of thd most important
rules of life mother as taken great
pains to teach her chi rem
You may imagined listened then
with al my ears.
Il have been tauJ lt ever since !
was a baby MillicenI went on, that
It was one of a WON BIS duties to be
az attractive as pe-able 1t would
have been simply impossible for one
OF my mothers children not to have
been to a certain extent pretty And
to be pretty and to have the best use
Of our faculties mamma has always
taught us that we must have plenty OF
sleep. If there comes a trying time
In mammals life, she prepares for IL
by sleeping.
"'This may seem very foolish Ia
you girls, but you know that mamma
is a truly lovely woman, and don't
think any one does more good than
she, in her own family and outside OF
it. And she considers it really duty
to be beautiful, or to try to be, and
sleep is her great beauty receipt. She
says it makes sweet tempers and ev-
erything else that is good and true
SO, tonight am going to sleep.
Dick is coming tomorrow, and
don't intend to quarrel with him. Per
haps you think that is not Independent
but l really love Dick'-then her lips
quiyered again and sister hugged her
some more, and l squeezed her hand
and kissed IT,. She cid look so sweet
and you can imasineI was interested
And Dick is very fonSnpf me, too
our lives ruined simply because he is
foolish. know mamma would tell
me to do just as l shall do. I shall
get just as much rest as can and look
as well as | can TOMORROW night, and
think everything win be all right,
and she looked like an angel smiling
through the tears.
But said sister Indignantly, I
don't think you ought to apologize to
him. You haven't done a single thing
that he ought to complain Of
I ahant apologize, said Millicent
with an arch little laugh, he will apol-
oglze to me-
And, do you kno9 that girl simply
went to sleep and slept like a baby
until late the pext morning. She had
a long nap in the afternoon, and ]
never saw any one look as lovely as
she did when she was dressed for din
ner and the evening.
"And l didn't blame her for being in
love with her Dick when he came. He
was the handsomest Elan 1 ever saw
But he did look savage at first. There
were q number of people in, so there
was no chance for him to have any
thing TO say to Mllheent until quite
late Ia the evening. And do you
know, I could a&gally See bin thawine
as the time went osn~S.s ~ kas~uod
as a novel jqst -. Ithe out
skirts where ] could sen all