The Prescott daily news., 1913-04-04
WORLDLY WISE PERSON
By JOSEPHINE CARROLL.

As little girl Albertine always sat in the chair in the farthest corner when she went to children's parties. She had a meek, pretty little face, abundant yellow hair and large, ap- pealing blue eyes that held a shadow of apology in them for her temerity in presuming to exist. She retained the 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 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 a way of dropping softl! 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 1t 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 coughed 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
 
 bulldoggy young man never pro. gressed in the acquaintance farther than raising his hat and casting an entrancing smile at her, but Albertine was satisfied with just adoring him from a distance
 Her family was quite alarmed when she fell in love with Harry Jungles, hnnonca IIar o1, ;,1 k, and worked only semi-occasonally and Albertines 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 as 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, hav ing long lowered over Albertine ia fear that she would do some fool thing and spoil her life her family was en- tranced when she became engaged to Jeffrey. It all happened so suddenly that one was scarcely aware Jeffrey was on earth before he was introduc- ing himself as future sonin-law and brother.
 Jeffrey was absolutely as nearly perfect as he could be for Albertine.