The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-27

cd charming bit OF local color, but
so country, you know" Then she de-
scribed party she had attended In
New York.
Nell said, fcellngly, that Il must be
terribly stupid to live in country
town when one was used to the city.
Mabel said It was-oh, unspeakably
stupid! (She had been In New York
just Ave weeksD There was no society
in Herwich. OF course there were nice
people, but no society. Nobody knew
how to entertain, except, perhaps, Mrs.
Meriweather, and she really was n
New Yorker.
So those girls went on, and think
only rose to go, fairly bursting with
swallowed laughter. Nell got up, too,
and Mabel.
Must you go?" she said. "But you
will come again? Mary, love, pardon
me, but your hat is bit too far for
ward. Do you mind If | fix it? There!
Really, one needs to have lived in a
city to get things just right"
Then she asked us II we would let
her show us some day how to do our
hair. And she insisted on showing
Nell how to put her belt on "the new
way" And as we started down the
steps she offered suggestions about the
correct way" of holding up our skirts,
which Nell and | had caught up any
how, to keep from falling all over the
miserable things.
,a1 IL 10 .t,.
meant mischief, but her face was as in
nocent as a baby's. She seemed to be
doing It oil out of the kindness of her
heart. She honestly wanted to help,
thought, and she appeared positively
flattered by our wanting to be like her!
The noble Duke of York, or whoever
It was, who marched up the hill and
then marched down again, has my SYM
pathy. | know exactly how he felt
Nell and | felt like that when we
marched down the hill from Mabels.
We came away in good order, how
ever. We did not run until we were
round the corner; and then we did not
stop running until we were safe in
Nell's little den" where we dropped
Mysteries, all by ourselves, as we sup
posed.
But in minute we heard Mat polite
ly inquiring from the door II he could
be of any assistance, and in the next
breath impolitely advising us to stop
snorting" and tell him what the crow
was.
Nell sat up, mopplng her eyes, and
tried to explain. "O-MMat," she
choked, "it's the funniest thing! Ma
bel never saw the p-point! She thought
we really wanted to be Like her. Mol
ly, shall die!" and she collapsed
again.
"Hurrah for Mabel She's all right"
was the only sympathy that we got
from Matthew. "Of course she was just
blufllng you, and it serves you riPAt!
Girls never can mind their own tusi-
ness, anyhow. They're all the time
meddling"
That brought Nell and me to in a
hurry. We started for that wretched
boy, but he was too quick for u.s. He
| lodged into his room and locked the
door, so we had to content ourselves
with telling him through the keyhole
our opinion of boys in general and OF
Matthew Bronson in particular.
Nell said 1t was just like boy, any
way. II you took his advice and sue
ceedcd, he was a wonder; If you failed
| you were a meddler.
Oh, we said several things, and we
could have said many more. only be-
fore we came to them somebody ran
up the stairs and distracted our atten-
ton. 1t was Mabel.
i've ccne to return your call,
girls" she said. "and couldn't wait
70 send up cards"
Nell and | just stared. She was
speaking in her old, natural way. and
somehow | knew she had been crying
81 want TO tell you that I'm very
grateful to you," she went on. 81 was
furious at first. fer | think 1t was a
pretty mean way of telling me that
I've been a goose, but suppose | de-
served it. Only, instead of discussing
me behind my back. and letting me
keep on being a goose so long, | think
. B sbu hllgHJ ldNt lOlu Hlc lTuNhly.
Then her voice began to tremble and
she stopped. Things looked pretty
squally. and Nell and could not seem
to think of thing to say. We Sim
ply stood there and felt mean. And
then suddenly the door flew open and
that blessed boy came bouncing out
could have hugged him!
81 beg to inquire" he said. solemn
ly, whether have the pleasure of ad
dressing Miss Mabelle Wogehrs OIL
Miss Mabel Rogers?'
mabel Rogers" Mabel said, laugh
ing. 81 Just came back from New
York this afternoon. Come on, Mat!
Let's show these little girls here how
tc play tennis. Go change your skirts
my dears!"
Mabel is all right!-Youth's Com
panion.
King Edwards Power.
How can n monarch become efIici