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We wont auk them. But teff hie
little ite`what troulllei y*ttt
• Z'in gine hal _ everasked me that
quet;tiatain all my childish woes and
,miser ere and somehow, alai+. hrsf�'touoh
irlapAY,'bh;ldi u Y 21, 1890, Of n �trlr tinleak,d my heart. and
+ ^° 'scarcely knowing,; what 1 said I'.poured
xuy feats, and,'citildlike, included with
nes deeper ggrtefs the humiliation of
nx ANNA, ryu4cs,r,ns, t clever having a new or becoming gar -
d when Uncle; Harry conies—. I "'est, What suited the olive .coulptex-
A,rt n n y lime and black hair of toy handsome
.s id meaning to cuutrnue and•develop
ii s g
saute new schema for the expected
:visitor's comfe:ert, a• But Rhoden took
lute up at twee. -,
He's. not your Uueto Henry, carrot
`1' tops 1
.No, said. Lizzie, you are mamma's
forth all nay et:me wl: wy hepta and
UZ' QLE $4 t1t,Y.
cousins made a perfect beget of me.
Think what 1 shall look like in thief
I said, holding up the crimson tea -
gown ; and what could be wore fright-
ful than Oils! indicating the bright
goldeh-brown dress I was arrayed in.
Lei a and Uncle Harry is papa's Put on you bat, Ike said. I atm
muss your uncle as 1 yam Rhodes and
Lizzie's.
Au hour of ecstasy followed. 1
was taken to the most stylish - empor-
ium in the city, the train from Easton
taking us there in fifteen minutes, and
there pretteuted with a deep blue dreg'e
of cashmere and silk,' till wy ovtin, and
far too small for my ,cousins. A drab
hat, trimmed with deep blue velvet,
drab gloves with teu buttons, boots
of stylish make, aid ruffles of fine
lace, trunsforma'd • me from a very
shabby girl to a most stylish young
lady., 1 Ratted up my curls as soon
as 1 arrived Inoue, made a fringe over
lay eyes, sod smiled to see the natural
ringlets, falling.. where my cousins
were forced to , be •content Neith
straight black bangs. • Their hair
would not curl, and looked Ethiopian
if force i to do so artifically. Criti-
cally surveying myself, 1 decided that
my pale couspiexiou was very white
and spotless, teeth 'regular, my eyes
deep brown, and my whole appearance
acarcel so hideous as 1 had always
• And Lizzie1 was, at fifteen, as bash- eupp.ssed. • iJ.:tppfuess mus all elixir
Another.. So you will please call him going to, convince you that I am as
lir. limiter, yellow eyes.
I had already forgotten what I heti
intended to say, and as toy charming
cousins left me, took. toy . usual solace
in the shape of au hour's hard prim,itic'e..
For it was. engraved upon my heart
:that the one hope of liberty and
pease for use was in family or school,
:far, fear. away trout Basten and the
Hunters. 'file relattuuchip so clearly
=stated ,by Lizzie bad been taken into
;the house of my father's sister, who
'deeply resented the fact that ray
iriottger's family had so opposed her
(mother's) marriage as to be keenly
offended at bar elopetnent with papa
,And had ignored Any existence.
i had inherited froth my mother
flair of a. soft, reddish chestnut, an
auburn tint, with threads of red gold
iu the sunlight, and .1 was entirely
l,ardetsed to tLe use of 'such names
.as read heard, uarrot tops, fiery hair,.
and other suggestive titles. .Fully
aware that my beauty was far below
the rich• brunette charms of Rhoda Y
dui, timid and retiring as even in, of beauty in wy case.
..cousins could desire: They were a And, to lily utter atm?zeineut, noth-
tew years older than 1, Rhoda nine ing'was said to Inc about Mr.'linnter's
teen nod Lizzie a year yeeunger, wheu generosity. He took me out with him;
,their un^le, Henry Hueter, came he invited me to joie the girls when
;from California uu a visit' to Ease ever he escorted thew to the city, the
.Lou. theatre, concert, or exhibition. He
Agthough I 'was given no share in gave me the seine trinkets, confection-
'the family oouucils, 1 took a keeu Hey and hooks .that lie . coustautly
interest in the arrival of this guest, brougut to thein.
of whom I had heard so much. A Then a most wonderf=ul thing hap -
man of only tweuty-tive, be had been pened. I was to a ':tore, matching
:adopted by aur uncle ith San Francisco, seine trimming for u, uew uostunie of
aeua hid given haw a son's and :wart- ,Rhoda s when a lady, looking so exact
aaer's share ina Initialling,business, ly AS 1 will look -,at iaiddle age as to
and it had been many years since' he
Lad been iu Easton. But many boxes
•of present= had been sent et ditl'erent
times to the liuuters, and quite a
accentphotug;raph led us to expesut
sl wan of clear rout features, large
.eyes,. and curling hair and whiskers.
v first sight of hien was obtaiued by
okiug over the banisters and seeing;
,brown -bearded, tall, handsome man
apturously welcomed by the entire
ausily. 1 hied been told to stay up
Lairs during the first evening, andit
vas . again :forcibly impressed upon
tie ;that Mr. Hunter was not wy
mete.
Was 1 sullen, RS my aunt said, or
(Was it a proper pride, as I flattered
en,yeerf, that glade me carefully avoid
,sur' vraitery I was most dismally
.cotlscioua that 1 was a tuiserhte c m-
erest to my 't ousius, who were pro-
vided with handsome wardrobes, and
whose soiled, worerasut garments were
ctuly handed down to we, to be trade
4,ver,my slender, shirt figural allowing
.extensive alterations. My hair never
useetued to aue so fiery as when their
;t oven locks were hear wy figure so
crcrawuy as beside their lull, round
,arcus and shoulders,
1 was preseuted to liir, Hunter' by
any uucle,whu drew use to one sitle,aurl
,,gold :
Harry, this is a neice you have
'lever known -Nellie Wallace; and his
3n they spoke a few kind words..
Uncle Hnnter bad always been very
kind to tate., but US was a man engross.
e id in•busineas, absent=ttrinded, rarely
ars Lome eiccept to eat and sleep, and
iguorant of the tyranny of hie wife
stud. daughters,
I tirflek 111x. Batey }hunter had- been
;t:tt tareeke-in tete . hornet, when oue
1 arising lie mitered the ssittiug•roow
:soddenly, to find tate alone itt a passion
.ort tears. Aunt Diary and the girls
'were out sltuppiug, laud I was ripping;
aa.etttneon tea•gown of tthoda's to to Germany and Paris; l bebatne cote
pieeett, sues ata tgttiing the *fleet of versant ut itb modern luuguuges, to a
the matie'ot'cs, 'wailed. faded cashmere limited extent: I was the idol of shy
si}ion sae. 1 did not Inter rise uoor
+open. 1 did not know 1 was lint
'alone until' two guff., gentle Lands
lifted wy bowed head, anti -Harry
•jitnhter biped, veil, very, tender rrr:iHr :
My poor Janie Nellie1.
Oh. ,Mfr' 1t'at5tea 1 1 $lift$;, trying to
tetrau.fltt+l ,my suns. '1 did nut heer
y.,e ,:style 1W.
sal miter 1 he repeaters. fl1t1 I Med of 1uy motley Was your grand.
lad be error dais e Henry a fath.+r'a she told me, au4 your rusher
'ate—elie...a,.aw xt,it. lif8t if,r I slpnusrl had half of that. As Anon as
aeon sem o Kgs 1 mauls Bettis your
abate upon you.
And she did,thoutsh,tbsok Heaven,.
she stall lives to enjoy her own.
Our' douse -warming was a bag I
Aunt Ray loved white draperies for
int, and my dress.. was of white lace
over silk, and trimmed with pond
lilies. I had a,profusion of hair, end
it was tiiintued in beuotniug fashion.
the fringe of ringlets; over the fore.
11.04 1 knew 1 looked well, but 1
bad long been accustomed to the
flatteries of society.
The evening was not far advanced,
When my aunt spoke toshe of a new
arrival.
A Californian, Nelly of fabulous
wealth, who has taken the house
opposite this one, "and furnished it
w.th gorgeous magnificence. Mrs.
Carlton vouches for him, arid he is
with her party to -Alit t 1 will in-
troduce him.
And flee minutes later" I was pre-
sented to Mr Hunter, and looked once
more into the Wildly • eyes of Uncle
Henry.. Evidently he Lad forgotten
me entirely, while in the years of
absence I had carried hisface in my
heart, his voice in nig memory, half
unconsciously, hut certainly making
all other men appear 'less attractive
by the contrast between them and
this kind friend of my girlhood.
All the evening he kept near me,
never obtrusive, but coming often 10
my side, dancing with me, showing
in every word, and lolk his pleasure
in being near me. He was our
opposite neighbor, and soon became a
constant visitor. Aunt Ray liked.
lli,n, urged hint 'to come often, accept-
ed lies escort to public places, and
made hien thoroughly at home in our
cosy litt'c sitting room.
He we sang together, played chess,
sewed, while our visitor read to us,
and 1 exultantly knew .that my hero
loved rne. I had long ago learned
that Rhoda and Lizzie Hunter were
married, and that it was given out
that•I had run .away, nobody knew
where!
One morning a little' • white -winged
missive came to me, over which Auut
Ray and 1 _ heldtearful consu't-
ation.
--You are Bute, sure you love him?
Aunt Rav said, kissing me.
• Very sure, I answered, and: 1.shall
only be across the street, auntie. '
111 the evening when Harry galled,
I as alone in the. drawing room.
1 `wore a dress of dirk blue cashmere
and silk. nh:ade in the fashion of six
between a couplet .of octugeneriane
While three ladteeof "80 and upwards"
got ltuabande who twee were 75, 05
`end 55 rt•speetively, '1'tikutg# Ow
gentlemen of upwards,,' de
find that one ut then: scoured a bride
of 40, But evert g eeet4a contrasts are.
to be alien iztthe venerable Adonis of
70 who got a mate of 2L and in the
75•year old buck who secured a damsel
of 10. At the other slid, of the scale
we him= a marriage between a (girl of
13 and a boy 111, auuther where the
contracting; petirties were 16 each
and a third iu which rues of 21.
saddled, theruaelves with wives of 14,
Two husbands of 80 took partnere
whose ages were urader 15, while uo
fewer than 70 husbands. of 40 toot
wives of front 10 to 20 nears.
A Highland Sermon.
botch Highlanders have the habit
when talking; their English of inter.
spereing the personal pronoun 'he'
when not required, such as 'The King
he has come.' Often iu:oouenqueucc
a sentence ie rendered extremely
ludicrous. A gentleman bays he late-
ly listened to the Rev Mr --•—, who
began his discourse thus: 'My friends.
you will find wy text in the first
epistle general of Peter, fifth chapter
and eighth verse ---'The devil he g;oeth
about like a roaring lion Seeking whom
he may devour.' Now,' my brethren,
for onr instruction 1 have divided my
text into four heads. Firstly, we
shall endeavor to ascertain who the
devil he'was'I Secondly, we shall endeav
or to enquirer into his geographical posi-
tion, namely, where the:devil he wits
going ! Thirdly, who the 'devil he
was seeking? And ''.ourtLly, and
lastly, we shall endeavor to solve a
question which has never yet been
solved, what the devil was he roaring
about?"
startle we, come to cue, and cried : years before. My h-'ir was loosely
You are you must be leellie curled in front, and caught into a
Wallace 1 knot that let it fall in girlish fashion
Yes, 1 answered.,nn tiny shoulders. As Mr Hunter
Oh, my Blear, come with me l Come crossed• the room swiftly, he suddenly
She drew the out of the store, led paat•pd.
in
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;iM'g +CU A DOUBLE ciil, l
If se, irw levee of it, or It Is Se144 to in-
ti seta StrO*s Character,
The great justifleetion of the double
chin rests, of cotrtlse, oe ire .unrivaled
value ue an f udeX of character --arid snob
ncharacter! It he really nature's patent
of nobility. This was long ago discerned
by the great moaner of pihyciognormy. IL
ie riot dimoult to divine wliat Lavater
thought of a double chin. Ile carefully
pointe out that mum differs front alto ani-
mal chiefly by hie chin, layiutg it :down
as an axiom that the chin is tate distinct-,
IVO characteristic of humanity; conse-
quently double chinned people are doub-
ly differentiated froiu the beasts that per-
ish, which is greatly to their credit. He
expressly takes for his model of "the
thinker, full of sagacity and penetra•
:tion," a wan with a fleshy double chin,
coupled with a nose rounded at the end,
The portrait he gives is oven better than
the letter press, as the gentleman is
limned with at least five chins, so that his
lower jaw was a vista of magnificent dis-
tance* like Washington..
This )happy physiognomy of the double
chin, coupled with the rounded nose,
characterises, betellsus, the mind which
can rise to heights, and »lhicl, follows
its designs with reflecting} Let,
un-
alloyed by obstinacy. t't, therefore,
those with double china rejoice, whether
they possess rounded noses or not, and
quote Lavater in gratitude. lie gives
again another example of the double
menton, and the face so endowed. be
says enthusiastically, is reason's own
image. He quite revels in this feature.
He takes an example of Raphael with a
beautifully rounded double chin, and in
criticising it he acknowledges that the
profile is wanting in truth, harmony and
grace; but then, asks he, how is it it so
strongly takes captive our sympathy?
Where lies the illusion? Merely in the
chin, he answers, and, as the chin is a
double one, the matter is no longer a
mystery. He points triumphantly to
Cicero's magnificent double chin, and in
a burst .of eloquence says of Wren'atbat,
if you can find a mats with (among other
Prat. Lolsette's memory system is creating greater things) such a chin .al that, without
tercet than ever in all parts of the country, and beinggifted with some extraordinary
:sous wishileK to improve their memory should
nd her has prospect: fres as advertised in another talent, he renounces forever the sciences
funs. of physiognomy.
What 1.avater Lias thus laid down ex-
perience amply corroborates. The double-
chinned, therefore, should hold their
heads up higher, in the consciousness of
modest merit, and, give free play and
just prominence to their certificates of
character. It is, as hinted above, rather
difficult ut present teStell;whoincndowed
and who is not. Portrait painters are
craven enough •to dissimulate a double
chin: they leave it to a caricaturist, who
seems to think it greatfun for a popular
statesman or poet to haver two,chinse.
Whereas those appendageeetre the secret
of their success. Some of our more ob-
servant writers have got n glimpse of
the truth; Wilkie Collins, for instance.
Ile wry properly credits Count Fiasco,
the man of daring, resource and .deter-
mination, with a double chin, to which
Posse's pet cockatoo calfs public atten-
tion by rubbing its Mead against it in the
most appreciative manner possible. But
your ordinary novelist. would. noverbave-
Likes and Dislikes.
Affinities and repulsions are queer
things. Sonne times they allow analysis
or explanation, but just as often they
.don't. Our likes and dislikes do not
• appear•to be- under our control any more
than that • very powerful emotional im-
•pulse toward' a particular one which is
called love. It may be said generally
that where there isesteem there can't
be any strong dislike, though there may
be no attraction. • Yet, curiously enough,
there may be lot:e without esteem.
Women • have been' known to love the
most worthless charaeters, for whom
they could not possibly have any esteem.
It is an enigma. after all. The loss of
faith in one might seem to shatter affec-
tion in one, but it doesn't. Affection
• ,survives confidence. People are drawn
stro
1116 to a luxurious carriage, and gave' ,a I always wondered who it was von tag;etgler wl,oae tastes and litrsuitswidely
some order to her uuachtuan, ;, ne'ly resembled,' he said "You difiet'-
sby some strong trait which they
Aly dear! buy dear! she said, to are Nellie lvallace!"
think you do not know me 1 1 acs : And did you never find me out till
your own hnother's twin sister, Nellie! now.
—Mrs Randall. Did your mother i Never t But— And then followed
ever talk to you of Ray? 'lover's wards I'will never repeat, but
1 was only six years old when she all ! never forget.
died, I bald mournfully. t Can you love me? Harry said at
Ye, 1 yes 1 Oh, Nellie, they would' last.
never let me go near my poor Helen . And I answered demure'y:
after she rau away, and when I begged
them to bring you Bowe, they a ould
not But now 1 aura widow, free to
do as 1 please, rich,, and you are tune.
You will come to me,Nellie—unless.
tire )uu very, very happy where you
area
I sin most miserable, wretchedly
unhappy, 1 replied.
You shall never goback,then—:lever!
I will write to your aunt to -eight.
You go home with. not, And, Nellie,
next mouth the will go to Europe.
13c hold we, tine', in the twinkling
of an eye, transformed from Nellie
Wallace, the slave of three unlovintt
women, to Nei ie Randall. the petted
'darling of anidolizing aunt. I was,
driven to a •' superb house in Fifth'
Atenne, where a most luxurious room'
was placed at my disposers, where a
maid 'Was de•aailed` for my special
service, where clothing. jewelry, finery
of a.l dessoriptiou was poured into .toy
clol+t.ts tor wy use, where a .hundred
tigers a day I was caressed, praised
for my beauty, my owe -et voice+, a
thou,itud graces,many of .vhiult 1
still fear existed out), in my aunt's
luvtnk+ iinagittatiou.
Five years passed bite a dream of
snappiness iu Europe. i attldied.wusic
stent, and had every advantage her
wealth could supply, or her love
suggest. •
We returned to 33mw York when 1
Was twenty yearfe nt& an ackf0wledgt-
i.d 6e'lle, and the heittlee of say autit's
gunple fortune. Site had mole her
with before w' sailed f#ems Europe, and
I 'iuew had left the al she possessed.
" 1 have given you aha' heart's
undivided devotion ever since you
gave uie time blue dress. "
But now, .my, darling? I don't
want a child's love for an uncle. Are
you all mine, my love, my wife?
All yours, I whispered. And you
have long ago heed my- Harry, wy
love, instead of Uncle Harry.
•
Carious Marriages.
Ot the slaty interesting matters
that come under the notice of the
Registrar General, there is nothing
more surprising than the" frequency
with which youth and age 'try the
paths of matrimony together. The
union of May and 1 eeember is not
nearly so rare as tnauy persons
suppose, and it is not always "the:
young;, lassies" that takes the "mold
map." Of 8866 brides over 50 years.
of age who were married last year, one
secured a youth of 20,three were
accommodated by igen of 21, and
fourteen others kept their clhotuee of
stripliugs below 25. In nn0 of the
last named castes, the good lady was
forty years older thau her partner
'lunette to the veterans attempt the
husbands, there wat.s-eyeing eHitter dis
parity. 'There were no fewer than
869 bridegrooms abote 90 years of ego
and of these one took a girl of 17,
another of 10, and four others kept
under 21. I3etweeii 60 and 70 years
of.agge 2084 'nen married. Three of
them took girls under i8, and twotty
others were uoutent with partners .,vho
had not a'em:heti their .majority. As
many as 4570 nudes Whose ages :rane-
ed hetwe•-n 60 auil 60 were also
brought to the hymeneal altar,atrd here
11114 there a snore of wives were in their
11 ens, A huudred were thu snare tha�'h
21, and 248, were under '25. Amongst
We itlkuty 'arena +) euatulteaa was 0140
c ,
s
held nh $osunhon, and persons of wonder-
ful ideihtity of tastes and psychological' thought of that.
res. sablances never • contrive heartily to As an Englishman. by the way, one
like each other by a .collision revolving ihaturally turns to Shakespeare to see
around some point of radical moral dif- whether Isis appearance corroborates La-
ferenee which wakes all the point and
kindred qualities go for nothing. And rater is views. Shakespeare foresawundoevery
so the queerest marriages and the queer- thingnv the point,t asue cin! aertful
friendships are contracted on the one thing else, but he was sufficiently artful
land, and the apparently strongest an- et' towem- Susi enough lathed to place u fits
tagonisms kindled on the other baud.-- eternal dont. whether e leaves had a double.
Pittsburg Chronicle -Telegraph. all or not. Thus he it open to
all parties, single-d'isinneti or lou1i18, to
quote skim as an instance of anything
they like, which, after all, is the' great
use which Shakespeare has always been
put to.—London Standard,
Our Postal interest.
Very few realize the extent of the
postai business of • the United States.
The annual saleof stamps reaches nearly.
2,000,000,000, and of postal cards 2S8,
000,000. The postmaster generitl, in his
annual report, concedes that one cent
postage must souse, but says it would he
inopportune to attempt it at'present, a0
it would reduce the annual revenue from,
letter postage by probably $15,000.•0041.
He advises that the postoflice depart-
ment first be put on a self sustaining
basis by accelerating and extending its
fatalities in all directions, so as to in-
crease its revenue. 111se?'nearest approac1
to one cent postage will he in the sihape
of a larger postal card. to be called :a lets
ter postal card, with abundant roone
upon it to write an ordinary letter.--
Frank
etter.—Frurek 1.esiie's Newspaper.
Pictures or Sand.
Parisians have lately been entertained
by a remarkable artist, who displays
wonderful skill in her peculiar form of
painting. With plates of various colored
sand before her, she tastes the sand in
her right hand and causes it to fall in
beautiful designs upon a table. A bunch
of grapes is pictured with violet sand, a
leaf with green sand, the stalk with
brown sand. and relief and shadows by
other sands; when the work is brushed
away a bouquet of roses and other objects
are represented with the same dexterity
and delicacy.—Philadelphia,Ledg er. ,
English Too LlmitLl.
Editor: (returning a matnscript to an
aspiring genius from Jenkinses Corners)
—Yes, I perfectly agree with you that
you are a grammatical heavy weight, for
you have knocked grammar completely
out. 1 would suggest that you givesome
attention to the study of Chinook, tit I
perceive that the resources of the Eng-
lish language are utterly inadequate to
express your ideas.—West Shore.
/Wont Stut,tey'a Hair.
The correspondent who went up coun-
try to sheet Stanley describes his hair as
being quite white. This he ascribes to
the privations of the expedition. But
those who met Mr. Stanley when he was
formerly in this tsouutry will be re-
minded by the telegrams of an incident
regarding which the great explorer was
some years ago twitted by his Mende.
As a matter of fact. his hal' had become
white long ago. But 'lir. Strhnley did
not appreciate the venerable appearance
width leis gray lecke gave hint. They
became black again a good deal more
suddenly thatt they had grown white.
Itt %lew of the chance of nisothei can-
ons elhang, of this kind. it is rather twit.
ward thntAtlseir present cols:•'should
have been so universally trade known,
—London (wt. J•ecllnburgh Seotrtuatt.,
Move to :Somme tt'e linktioes.
The nett legislature of Wyoming will
pass a law making the killing of a bste-
falo a misdemeanor. Ala act to this el-
feet is not required to protect the Platt`-
(aloes as game. for the hunter would
hunt the mountains and plains for wild
buffaloes in rain. It is intended to ha-
ply to the men who lie in wait and shoot
down the buffaloes that happen t0 stray
teff the reservation in the Yellowstone
park, where a few relics of the bygone
raee are preserved. The dead buffalo
brings its slayer 0200 and the tetnpta-
tion. to kill theme is a strong ow for the
hunter.- Bechange.
As ttl'as4+d.
Our old and valued filend, Resolution,
Balled on ua laist evenings.
'ellow're you fixed?" we asked. -
"8rolrey" said het---Vitashiugtot Nene