The Washington herald., 1914-08-09
Trina. Int So Different.


Ietitia Renderdine were twins. Lefty
was a daughter Of the gods, divinely
tab and most divinely fair" while Edna
was rather what the unregenerate would
call dump" and had plain face.
They were poor and they had brains.
Therefore, after their fathers death
; their mother had died when they were
babies-and when the full force OF their
poverty assaiIed them, they took to
teaching.
For young ladies in their position
yelI-educatedI young ladies-teaching
seemed the natural thing. and so they
taught, choosing the vocation Of gov
erness as the most 'igenteeF' form OF
teaching.
Edna could get position as governess
with some difficulty. but once having
gotten it, she could keep It Lefty could
get a position easily enough. but could
not keep It. She was too pretty.
When the mistress OF the house saw
how really pretty-even handsome-shs
was, although Letty's conduct was dis
erection itself, Lefty was given her
congo" These husbands and grown-up
sons. you lznow-well, palmer governess
would do just as well in carefully reg
ulated household.
Established in KensinEton.
Lefty had had all sorts Of offers Of
narriage-that Is all sorts except the
sort she wanted-an offer by man OF
wealth.
She realized fully her personal attrac-
tons and hated bitterly her poverty and
the drudgery 1t entailed.
It would be wrong to call her a hrst
but she could not help looking her best
and giving those little side glances, those
little down glances and that full look
with lustrous orbs full in the face-only
for a second-which makes man feel
that, at least for that second, he has
made an impression"
No, she could not help tin fact. did
not try to help it
The governess proposition being a fall
ure, taking It all around, Edna, who was
the general manager and treated her
sister as a sort Of wonderful big doll,
devised a combination day and boarding
school for young ladies in a tiny house,
which the sisters owned in Kensington-
KensIngton was a "geuteef suburb
then, not, as It is now, an integral part
Of great roaring London. People Of ex-
ceedingly moderate means could live
there and keep up appearances"
The hideous old Kensington Palace,
with its suggestions of royalty gave 1t
quite an "air'' and the Kensington Gar
dens were really delightful.
ConvaIescent.
The sisters did very well indeed with
their school until scarlet fever broke
out among the pupils. Lefty came down
with il and the school had to be closed,
at least for a while.
Now behold the two sisters in a modest
clearinghouse in a modest town on the
Isle of Wight-Letty convalescent.
"Oh, Edna, I'm so tired and this is
the duIlest place in all the world
Lefty was lying upon a sofa with a
uuerulous look upon her beautiful face
and Edna was sitting by the window
looking out meditatively at the wine
dark sea"
My dear. it is the place to which you
wanted to come"
Yes: but we might have found a
nicer place. But you are quite happy. l
think there is nothing in the world that
would make you miserable"
Edna WINGED a little and then said:
1T is Of no use quarreling because
will not see the black side OF things.
Time enough for that when we go back
to Kensington. Here we are on a holi-
day-nothing to do but enjoy ourselves"
Not Too Old for Dreams.
who are those gentlemen who have
taken the apartments across the hal?'
asked Lefty after a while.
zone of them is an invalid and the
other is his brother-a doctor"
Have you seen the doctor?"
No. except his back, which was rather
round, and the coat. which was shabby
at the. elbows"
He is not a gentleman, them
20, I can't tell. II he happens TO be
a poor gentleman why should not his
coat be shabby at the elbows?"
Edna and Lefty were still young wom-
en-only twenty-six-and talked as such.
They were not too old for dreams and
romance.
Edna had a vague impression. way
down in her dear, honest heart, that
some time for her the man of her des-
tiny would come. Lefty had the same
Of love would never light-the kitchen fire
and Cupid would, naidedu, never turn
the spit.
Near Her Ideal!
How old is he-the doctor?" asked
Lefty: and then, as her eyes met her
sisters, she laughed.
oh don't be alarmed. He will not fall
in love with me, and I surely shall not
fan in love with him. I hate shabbiness
and would not be doctors wife anyway.
Only fancy having ones husband al
eyerybody's beck and call-out at all
hours day and night, never taking me
TO a party or giving a party at home
without being fetched away TO all sorts
Of nasty places and nasty people; bring
ing home fevers and smallpox and the
like. oh, what a dreadful life"
DO you think so?" replied Edna.
why. when was q girl used to think
that. had I been a boy. that was the pro-
fession should have chosen There
IL something in q 50 grand and yet "a
useful. He has such power IN his hands.