The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-10
WORLDLY WISE PERSON
By JOSEPHINE CARROLL.

She had meek, pretty little face, abundant yellow hair and large, ar pealing blue eyes that held a shadow of apology in them for her temerity i1 presuming to exist. She retained th modest violet atmosphere after she was grown up.
 Other girls might blossom into dar- ing coquettes and fascinating belles, but Albertine always kept in the back ground. Whenever people looked at her they involuntarily thought of lace mitts and hoopskirts and curtseys. They felt that Albertine should be put under glass.
 This being the case, it was aston ishing that down in her secret heart Albertine had a fierce love of the dar- ing, the wild and gay and the extreme. When she picked out a dress design she always chose the rankest, most alarming atrocity. The dressmaker said, "Oh, certainly" and then pro ceeded to modify the pattern to suit Albertine's appearance.
 Things had way of dropping softly on her in old fashioned lines. She wanted to look frightfully smart and somehow she never did. Secretly she suspected the dressmakers, but she never dared accuse them.
 It was the same way when it came to the young men. Let a perfectly steady, sober youth who earned a reg ular salary and was good to his mother come her way and Albertine raised her little nose and sniffed. She simply could not see him. She ad- mired eXtravagantly the sort of young man who dashed down the street wearing crimson silk socks and a tie to match and the latest cry in waist coats, and if he was followed by a bulldog so much the better If people raised their eyebrows and cougheG discreetly when his name was men, toned it made the situation perfect.
 Albertine always felt loftily then that she was an experienced, worldly wise person and the eyebrow raisers were narrow proyincials. Usually the bulldOggy young man never pro gressed in the acquaintance farther than raising his hat and casting an entrancing smile at her, but AIbertine was satisfied with just adoring him from a distance.
 Her family was quite alarmed when she fell in love with Harry Jungles because Harry always was in debt and worked only semi-occasionally, and Albertine's relatives had a great deal of money. Harry seemed awake to this, for he actually called on Al bertine and talked poetry to her in the parlor in low, rich tones and told her how the world misjudged him Albertine went so far as to powder her already white nose and her moth CT caught her once using an eyebrow pencil. It was much the same ae though an Easter lily had begun to rouge. The situation was saved, how ever, by the sheriff's removing Harry for forgery, and after that Albertine wore what she thought was a heart broken expression and thought she threw into her face deep lines of ex- perience and suffering.
 After Harry several others of the same kind followed. Therefore, hay ing long lowered over Albertine ir fear that she would do some fool thing and spoil her life her family was en- tranccd when she became engaged to Jeffrey. It all happened so suddenly that one was scarcely aware Jeffrey was on earth before he was introdao ing himself as a future sOn-in-law ana brother
 Jeffrey was absolutely as aearl, perfect as he could be for Albertne sLiberal minded people might say Ii erred on thee side of rigidness and propriety and possible narroWness. but one felt that he would always be at home at six o'clock sharp for din ner and that Albertine never would have to hang out of the front window trying to distinguish whether it wa he wavering down the street at one o'clock in the morning. Jeffrey chokcd at the sight of cigarette. wouldY't be caught dead at a dog show and said his wife never should be permitted to wear decollete gowns in the even ing
 The more people considered the matter the more ineXplicable it be came. Finally her dearest friend flat ly asked Albertine to explain Jeffrey's attractions.
 You see" said the dearest friend with your ideas I can't understerd how you happen to fall in love witt Jeffrey, of all men,
 "Of all men!" echoed Albertine iu pitying astonishment "Why, I'll tell