The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-02-14
when she was as gay as linnet,
And she was as fresh as lark,
Nouar q dnN hut come min11fo

Never day but some minute
We met betwixt dawning and dark"'
Anon.
IT was her latest fad, perhaps the
most absurd-the wearing of
glasses. She had enjoyed the brief
pleasure of many voluntary and un-
necessary experiences. She was
young, to be -preposterously
young to wear a gown that came to
her ankles. Her youth may be urged
in extenuation of her tendency to
indulge in caprices. That is if per-
functory explanation is desired. A
girl having an erect young form mold
ed in the prescient curves of gracious
womanhood, eyes the blue of ragged
robins and hair which, like that of
Miles Halpine's Jeanette, was
"A silken and beautiful snare:"
surely needs apology no more than the
wine of which Rosatind makes mention
in her delicious epilogue needs bush.
She begged the family dentist to find
a place in one of her perfect front
teeth where he might insert gold, be-
cause it looked so pretty" She had
taken up many new modes of dress
perhaps because she looked well in
anything. She had gone through sue
cessive stages of physical exertion So
eially considered-croquet, tennis and
other mild dissipations. She wore her
hair La Chionois, la Pompadour and
la the almond-eyed damsel of the
land OF the cherry blossom. When it
was just the thing to wear jaunty
glasses, having slender gold chain
attached to the bodice, or looped back
to merge itself securely in ones hair,
the chill of exclusion possessed her.
she couldn't wear eyeglasses. Her
sight was too ridiculously good. No
one would believe her-not even her
credulous mother for whom her daugh-
ter's every whim was fresh delight.
But it was too bad! The glasses were
distinctly becoming. Mary McCrsa
was 20 times better looking since she
mad found it advisable to affect them.
They gave one literary look-at all
events a look of aloofness-an air of
disfinction. Why wasn't she far-sight-
ea, or near-sighted, or afflicted with
asugmatism. or in any way so fash
ioned that pair of rimless glasses ad-
Jasted over her straight little nose
would add to her attraction? She
3 pIoaehed her difficulty to her mother.
we put off wearing glasses as long
as we could in our young days." re-
turned her confidant. "We thought
| aoing SO indicated age. My great
grandmother could thread needle
with hair from my head when she
was 10"
Inc accomplishment of this vener-
soie ancestor failed to interest Lorraine.
apart from her fancy for fads she was
a"efy sensible girl. The remark of a
famous Wit and playwright to GER
.aih lovely lady might have referred
g her: For such well-dressed wom-
sh son have really some sane ideas"
one aid the work of stenographer in
: Jaw office where acumen and critica!
!augment were required. Her pen-aud-
lnh and charcoal sketches found adj
:. .alsrs 5. and buyers. The management
= .ne household, while gominally in
'on'foi OF her mother, lay in her own
s'ehaef' capable hands. And even the
.e'ghoors admitted that the way she
Aspt her three small brothers On an
noMance remarkable chiefly for its
Sinary. 'faor
haven't been to the matinee oncs
s.n.e started saving to send Bobbie
-. .Ae Athletic Club she assured her.
ssn And as for gloves-l haven't
pair s q cheap
sue meant glasses-not gloves. She
o.o1ea guilty when the saleswoman
'asssa te 1sst her eyes.