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A lu person was the beautiful woht take after!

I'm afraid I returned froion

There followed an anxious ti Some one had told me that lemon juice would exorcise freckles, and surreptitiously I tried it How my face smarted after the heroic treatment, and how red and inflamed it looked! But then in a little while back caain and they stayed, too, until--but how they went, I ae of daily wearing my coral beads--the ones my cousins Milly and Ethel Baker had sentwhen one day, while we children were racing for the schoolhouse door at the end of recess, the string broke and they were nearly all trampled upon before I could pick thes of tea chests froeneral store, and cut the theo to sleep at night with my short, dampened hair twisted around these contrivances, and in thecomb it out and admire it as it stood about irl's at the circus

Thus beautified, I happened one day to meet our white-headed old pastor! How he stared!

"Stand still a minute, Nelly, child, and let's look at you," he coood ; sadly I realised the failure of my attempt to compel beauty When I reached home I sternly soaked the curl out of ly tight pig-tails Ah, h at the silent sorrows of childhood, bravely endured alone At least, it's easy for me, now!

I began to worry Ma about rew ashahed for prettier things One of the girls wore at a Sunday school concert a gray and blue dress with ant as a duchess could want The children whispered that it had cost 20, and I wondered if I should ever again see raiment so wonderful I knew that it was useless to ask for such a dress for h for fine feathers