The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-01-15

THO lN1U6S tue 06u jose tmens 90 well.
The hop was Friday night, and we had
played tennis all day long, simply be-
cause there was absolutely nothing else
to do. stayed out on the courts, not
because don't hate tennis, but be-
cause we had heard the colonel was
coming in the afternoon, and, as men
are so scarce down there, we all wanted
the first chance at him. At any rate,
I guess the other girls did. freely
confess that was my, sole object, and
from the way they haunted that hot.
place it was very evident they had the:
same reason. He didn't come, though;
that IL, not till later. But I stayed
around so long after train time left
myself only about minute to dress;
then just, tore upstairs and began to
make things fly. My trunk had been
packed by Bridget; can always tell
her packing; she puts the light things
on the bottom and the heavy things
on top; they were all just that way
when I opened it, but when came to
look for my slippers could find only
one. l searched high and low, and
turned things upside-down and wrong
side-out till the floor was strewn from
one end to the other; but that slipper
was not to be found. There was only
one thing to do about it, stay upstairs
all evening by myself, or go without
that slipper. Just then the band
struck up The Blue and the Gray and
that settled it. I put the left slipper
on the right foot, that being the most
conspicuous, and let it go at one white
foot and one russell one. Just then
Ethel ran across to see if I was ready
to go down, but I was so hot from
Tuning over that shoe my hair had all
come out of curl and had to be done
over. She didn't offer to help me the
least bit; all she said was: oh, you
little goose, why didn't you powder
your hair when you curled it so it
would keep dry and stay in placer and
off she went down the hall to tell the
girls wasn't half ready. I could see
it was a good scheme, though, so when
got my hair done again just DOW
dered it thick with la Blache;' had
a full box, and emptied nearly half
of it,
We were now half way around the
links, and suggested we might rest
few minutes. Kitty had lost her
score long before and was glad enough
to stop; so, dropping her cleek and
asking if her hat was straight, she
drew long breath, and went on. Her
eyes seemed to catch the sparkling
blueness of the water as her gaze
rested ruminantly upon the scene be-
fore her, and her mind to stray in
long, long thoughts, like the flight Of
the dipping sea-gulls oyerhe cad.
It's perfectly awful the way those
girls make themselves up in the even
ing. l wouldn't think of doing such
thing-that is, not often-but see
ing what preparations they were all
making, to stun the colonel, thought
I'd try it little bit, too. So I took
a pencil and made beautiful arch of
my eyebrows and a lovely shadow un-
derneath. It really did make a Won
derful improvement; my eyes looked
twice their usual size, almost as large
as Ethel's. But the light wasn't good
in my room, so l skipped down to
Nette's, where there was a chandelier.
She was whitening the girls necks
and shoulders, and the air was so
dense with the powder could scarcely
see until I got right under the light,
and then you ought to have heard the
shout that went up from every last one
of those girls. What do you suppose
l had done? When I held the glass
under the light found my hair was a
lovely pink. You see the la Blache'
was desh-color, and had put on too
much. Oh, how we did brush and fan
and tear my hair to get that miser-
able color off, but it was so thick it
seemed to stick to every individual
hair. The girls thought it was very
funny joke. They all gathered around
and made suggestions, and poked fun
at me, till all at once Nette gave a
shrek and said: What in the world
have you done to your eyes, child?' l
said: oh, nothing; does it show?'
thought she was going to have a fit.
she looked at me she went off in such
a gale of laughter the tears ran down
her cheeks and made little burrows
through the 'Camelline' Finally, she
got glass and said: You look as if
you had been done in pastels by blind
man. That made me mad, and I
snatched the glass out of her hand and
to my horror found l had gotten hold
of the pencil her mother had been writ
ing postals with, and had made my
eyebrows an indelible b1ue.''
This recital of her misfortunes
showed Kitty to be Differentiated
than had supposed, and I began to
feel somewhat Modified. what did
you do about it?'' I asked her.
do? Why there was nothing I
could do, that was the worst of it."
she answered; "the pencil was indeli-
BILE, but can tell you - felt very
much prinked up with pink hair and
blue eyebrows. Then Janet came in
to see if we We're ready, looking like