Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-21

apiecey, feel quite sorry for Aunt Elizabeth And
try to be philosophical with her for being SO wor
ried and disagreeabe and snappish all the time. When
you already have SIX ugly, dowereSs girls on your
hands to marry off, Mon Deni fancy how disgusting
it must be suddenly to have seventh one pamed off
on you!
Lii (me)
TWO big black eyes, like the pools made by tipped
inkstand hair like the tail OF black trotter tor
whatever it is-the kind of horses they don't dock)
skin dark like of the harvesers that up from
the Midi in the autumn; and as though that Weren
enough two cheeks red like those of Norman Usher
woman-oh, the nights and nights have sobbed my
self to sleep at home and then at school!
Nore CONNIE mne mnpe-it seems to me those are the
first words | remember hearing whispered of
respectfully behind the back of Mademoisee de
Vauqueres But later at the convent of Saint Veronica,
can promise you that the girls were not SO delicate
@Black field mouse'-or just "Mole," short like
thatat the least little bit of difference of opinion that
the way they'd fight back at And for reply, what
there to say? There not girl in the school
except from the lie DIES Sauvages-so dark as |.
And-oh, there were two or three real blends!
Beautiful fairylke creatures they were, with pale,
yellow hair and skin white like snow-and oh how
proud they were! What did it matter if their figures
were fat and dumpy like Aunt Elizabeths, and one
the blondest of a-showed only two holes for nose,
like ancient Hun because it turned so? But they
blOndS, and that was enough. AT the opera the
pr donna always blond, and all the chorus in
beautiful curly yellow wigs The dark one the growl-
and killed herself in the last act. In the that
l read Cat home in Papas library, not at school, OF
course it the same way. The heroine always fas
cinated the hero with the glimmer of her golden hair
and later on (about Chapter XXX always clasped him
in her mk-white arms. But-bah! what hero ever
wanted to be casped in the color of cafe ka?
Helen of Troy blond. Harriet in the miniature was
blond like the wheat-ears. All the favors of Fortune
for the blends: much easy to see. 1t was
the provoking because in the mirror | could see
quite plainly, if it weren't for my hdeous "black
mole, really shouldn't be plain at all.
However, there was nothing do about it,-except
rice powder and golden bleach which not for young
girls,-so consoled myself, like every other ugly
since Madame de Stae by trying to be intelligent
All that went better. At school enraged my tutors
with the questions asked, at home made dear Papas
hair briste than the white cavalry brosse he
wore. When came home from the convent two years
ago eighteen | was | am twenty now) | read every
book that Papas library held When we went to Paris
in the Acacias (@chc types Papa said the Ameri-
cans. And, even though may not succeed in being
chic type, at least am not little white goose like
the other French young girs,-ah, no for example!
And very lucky, too since Fate has whsked me away
from my dear France, where ones parents bring up
proper candidate for husband at the proper moment;
then there is chic wedding at the Madeleine and
cracl there you all established for your life But
here in England, where it is necessary to do all that
work yourself to fascinate young man land a young
man with money, at that, and to have him ask you
for your hand to your face without your parents
talking to him, any preminaries like that,-where
you have to go through much before you even
start life with husband of your and "Mrs' on
your cards-why, the more experience you can have
beforehand, even in books the better.
But Lii, my poor child of what do you rave? What
experience matter to you, who have dowry for
French marriage and beauty for an English one
it, then, that exists at ALL the English marriage? have
heard my Aunt Elizabeth say dozen times, with
in her eyes, that there husbands left in England
1t appears that half the young go to the colonies
and the other half marry chorus girls Americans
Chose @chic types') And for those who left,
if may judge from the few specimens have here
Brent Castle they don't want to get married all
They yawn and keep up sort of granting conversa-
ton together about politics. and they mock themselves
badly of the girls and their tennis, and their tea
and their gigglng attempts at fascination And it