Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-28

TNXNGA vi, Dul tLSi y
lHM are various kinds
of W S d m,
laughed the observant Spinster, and
Betty Fosbery has the kind that IS
different"
Then it is pure waste said the
happily married woman. for she is so
very pretty
That is just it," answered the OBJ
servant spinster. "Betty's prettiness
is only one manifestation of her wis
dom.
''The other girls are tanned and
freckled and sunburned; Bettys face,
and arms, while not extraordinarily
pink and white in themselves, seem
delicate In comparison. The other
girls are running wildly from one
thing to another all day; Betty hasn't
touched a golf stick nor tennis
racket since she has been here. When
she goes boating, some young man.
not Betty handles the oars So she
never looks tired or pulled to pieces. =
But, protested the happily mar
ried woman, ''What is the good of go
ing to a summer resort if you don't
do anything but sit around ?"
The observaht spinster laughed.
You, who first met your husband on
this very porch, ought to know better
Tran to ask that question: she said.
You know, and Sc does every wonI-
an what summer resorts are for.
Still, it is only now and then a Betty
Eoabery who acts with any wisdom,
You see, went on the obserVant
81 MISTER. Betty decided that she
on q be the most popular girl here
this summer and she is accomplishing
tat laudable ambition. Now, Betty
has no special eHdgWments above 9TH
er girls-except the strange wisdom
y .ich is hers At the beginning of
season Betty sat down, | have no
doubt, and considered her assets.
she acknowledged TO herself that
she had no speciality which could
y ahe her stand out pre-eminent above
The other girls She could play golf,
OF course, but not so well as Clara
Tarnes She could play tennis, but
she never could hope TO win a set if
bertha Gates were on the other side
Of the net She could swim, but she
could not plunge for distance as Dor
othy Tyler could Then it was that
her wisdom stood her in good stead
it whispered to her: Do not let your
self be always in second place Hold
yourself aloof from everything. She
has rigidly obeyed that command.
Betty never arises until it is late.
Then she has her breakfast in her
room, aud idles away the morning
reading or lying in hammock under
the trees In the afternoon she has a
nap before it is time to battle and
dress for dinner. When the other
girls, dusty and disheVeied come up
on the porch, it is to see crisp, cool
Betty looking the picture of comfort.
IF only the girls saw her it
wouldn't matter SO much; but the
men see her, too. 1t is all right to
have companion to tramp across
the links with you in the broiling SUM-
but it is better to have some one in
a dainty gown waiting on the porch
to greet you when you come home
So many a girl who goes in for sport
is learning something of the perfidy
Of man when she leads her partner
OF the day up on this porch, only to
have him play the cavalier to Betty
all evening
Naturally Betty is attractive in the
evening. She can wear evening gowns
without fear that her arms and neck
will show three or four different
shades of tan; she can dance all night
without being tired, while the girl
who has tramped about in heavy shoes
all day is tired at the start"
fBut even If the other girls are
tanned and freckled,' said the hap
PLY married woman, Il should think
they might win out over Betty by the
old rule of possession being nine
points of the law; for they are with
the men so much more"
This from married woman," ex-
claimed the observant spinster.
Don't you know that the one infal
lible piece of wisdom in Bettys phil
osophy has nothing to do with sun
burn or freekles or dusty clothes. bat
goes beyond all such things? She
knows that to hold ones self apart as
rare is the first prineiri
of the girl who would attract 81
doesn't let herself become an
story"
You ought to be married. yonrso
conceded the happily married VIC
"But I'm afraid you never will b
you know too much. Petty Fe
may be just wise eno'gh, i
thing can be carried tee
--even wisdom 2 ~
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