Year: 1870

returns tomorrow from finishing her edu-
cation. 1t is my intention to make great
personal and pecuniary sacrifices with a
view TO her advancement in life, You will
therefore see it to be your duty at once to
look out for situation as governess in
some respectable family. will not hurry
you for few weeks, and I shall do my best
meantime to help you find such situation 4:
but name three months as the time at
which our present connection should cease" :"


80, dear"' said Noddy, her usually
cheerful face becoming quite blank-"I'm
sure I'm not fit for governess. don't
know near enough to teach.''


" Perhaps not. No one does What of
that? You are quite as scompetent as many
young ladies l know who go out. No girl
is expected to be competent in her first
place. You learn at your first situation
what you want to teach at the second. 1t
is the same in all business. Now, let us
see what we can say in the advertisement
French, German, Italian, and the usual
accomplishments, suppose that is the
customary thing"


but scarcely know word of French,
not u syllable of German, and can't even
understand an Italian song" ," objected Nod
dy "and as to accomplishments, l can
only play hymn tunes, as you call them, on
the piano"


every well, Miss ; and pray, what of
that? Nobody will ask you for more, will
they? You will go with young children
first; you can teach them English, and
spelling, and that, and what little French
you know, and their notes on the piano !;
and il their parents wish for more, you can
tell them it is not advisable SO overfill little
heads too soon can't you ?"


"But I should be so ashamed" pleaded
Noddy "please don't say all that, for in
deed | couldn't teach at all when it was
found out how ignorant was of all l had
proiessed and people would despise me
when they found me out"


" Nonsense nobody will find you out
Why, how do you think began as a draw
ing mistress? The same as other people do.
l bought my specimens of lady artist
and always took care to bring my pupils
drawings home to be corrected by the same
lady. My drawings were admired, so were
those of my pupils, and I obtained con-
nection. | forget what became of the az
tist but you may be sure she never came
to any good. You see she had a certain
order of talent for production, while /
possessed the superior ability to render
her commodity marketable. As to adver-
tising anything short of what I have told
you, it would be useless every governess
does the same, for the reason that every
other governess does so too. If people be
lieve it, that is their affair; mine Just now
is to get you situation and when | have
done SO | shall consider myself relieved
from farther responsibility"


Noddy went back to her pies but a
heavy heart won't make light pastry, and
Noddy's wouldn't rise.


The next day Julia returned-a tall
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air of completion which finishing school
so successfully imparts. Julia Mueller
was an accomplished girl; she had learned
all the last new tricks of musical execution
and showed peculiar facility in the per-
formance of pieces ofthe Buildings of Morn
and Dribblings at Eve order. These she
could rattle though with an air of easy
superiority to the instrument, to the mu-
sic, and even to her audience, as though
such trifling feats of sleight-ofhand were
the most easy accomplishments in the
world, as perhaps they are when once you
know the trick. She was on singing terms
with most Of the gushing song of flimsy sen.
timent of the day. She could paint groups
OF impossible flowers, chatter boarding
school French, embroider in beads and wool,
dance, and read novels on the sofa. In q
word, Julia was finished.


! Poor Noddy's little heart quite sank