News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-08-14

| life and never thought them worth
the trouble of study, and now you have
materalized on the scene. and you
want to know all at once every secret
| that is connected with them. Now |
can show you the way to the pyra-
mids. but | don't in the least know
what the writings mean. Did you ever
read the BibleT"
"My father used to read 1t to me-"
"Did he ever read about the garden
of Eden?"
mo; | do not remember it."
"Of course not. 1t is about a woman,
and he wouldn't read that. Well,"-
desperately-"there was such a place
when God made the world, and there
was a man there. He was all alone.
There wasn't another human being in
the whole world, and Adam-that was
his name-was lonely. I'm not surpris-
ed at that. 1t must have been horrid.
He raised some kind of row about it,
and so one night while he was asleep
| God took a rib out of his side and
made woman out of it. After that
Adam became the father of all men,
and Eve-that was the woman's name
became the mother Of all women.
Men are all made after the same pat
tern as Adam, and women are all made
after the same pattern as Eve, and
they are no more alike than a horse
and a cow-at least not to my mind
Now look here! | have an idea. My
clothes are much too small for you, but
am going to dress you up in them.
My goodness!
what is the matter"
"My trunks! / had forgotten all
about them. They've been out on the
prairie all this time, and everything
will be ruined or stolen"
Lisle smiled.
''They are here in the house." she
said. 81 gave orders last night about
them. Shall / have them brought
bere?"
"No. If they are safe, that is all
care. The clothes we have on are all
we need. We will change. You shall
wear these, and will try yours. Take
them off"
"1n your presence"
Certainly"
81 have been taught by my father
never to-
"Bother your teaching! I am your
teacher now"
"Well at least you need not put these
M - Il
here. You shall have a much better
Euit than this one"
The extra suit was soon forthcoming,
ind after that the two girls worked on
In silence, with here and there an in
PERFECTION from Erna Lsle did not of
fer any remark, and every question
that she would have asked during the
process of removing their outer gar
ments was nipped in the bud by vehe-
ment protests from her companion.
The intersections came when the
work of arraying Lisle in feminine ap-
parel was in operation. The "instru-
ments of torture" were made to fit by
altering the lacings, and when at last
they were clasped around Lisle's waist
so tightly that she found it difficult to
breathe, Erna believed that the most
heroic part of the work was DONE
Nothing about the costume came to-
gether, but woman's ingenuity is ever
equal to feminine emergencies of dress,
and the difficulties were surmounted
one by one so that at last Lisle stood
before her instructor, having success
fully donned everything except the
tight fitting waist and skirt and the
footwear.
There" exclaimed Erna, stepping
back few PAGES and viewing with I'M
disguised admiration the consumma-
ton of her toll. you are simply glo-
rious" she added. "As boy you were
Enthusiastically handsome, but as q wO-
man you are simply out of sight! You
are perfectly beautiful! Here, let me
pin this skirt on to you. 1t won't meet,
and it's too short, but l can make it
do. The waist will never come togeth-
er in the world, and We'll have to do
without that. oh, dear, what ravish-
ing creature you are! There! / can
talk to you now without feeling that
every drop of blood in my body had
gone to my face. | could not get rid
of the idea before that you were man
after all. Now l know that you are
not. Look at yourself in that glass.
How do you like itY"
IL don't like it. This steel jacket is
the worst of all. Aren't you going to
dress in my clothes|
mo. | don't want to. Come here,
Isle, and sit down beside me. Are
you so very uncomfortable"
81 feel as though l were in a wise.
Must l wear clothing like this always"
Always with a vehement nod.
Then, with sudden emphasis and wis
dom, Erna added: "But not at once.
The people on this ranch must not
know of the discovery we have made
at least not now. You must be to them
as you have always been"
"Whyp
because you would not be safe here
If they knew that you are woman"
why? Do all men hate women so?
Would they seek to kin me"
"Kill you? No; but you would not be
safe"
> "Bahl | do not fear them"