. St. Nicholas [serial]. a blue hair-ribbon to match, so that whenyou look in the glass and find how nice you look, what / tell you. Just wear blue always, andnever touch another inch of brown. Wait aminute ! I have a hat out in the car that wouldjust suit you, I know, and it is nt my style at you take it to remember my little sermon ?My mothers ribbon will make you remember tobe good, and my hat will make you remember towear becoming clothes. They re both very im-portant. The young lady dashed out to find the hat, anddashed back to leave it on Deborahs lap. Thenshe smiled once more,


. St. Nicholas [serial]. a blue hair-ribbon to match, so that whenyou look in the glass and find how nice you look, what / tell you. Just wear blue always, andnever touch another inch of brown. Wait aminute ! I have a hat out in the car that wouldjust suit you, I know, and it is nt my style at you take it to remember my little sermon ?My mothers ribbon will make you remember tobe good, and my hat will make you remember towear becoming clothes. They re both very im-portant. The young lady dashed out to find the hat, anddashed back to leave it on Deborahs lap. Thenshe smiled once more, and she and her motherbuzzed off in the automobile, leaving Deborahshead buzzing as fast as the car. She went home,scarcely knowing who she was, the blue ginghamand the blue hair-ribbon done up in one parcel,and the hat—such a pretty one!—in another. 582 DEBORAHS CHANGE OF HEART [May, I m getting all mixed up on my hating plan,she thought as she went. I ve given Mr. Dan-vers and Mr. Fenton flowers; that s all IT S VERY , SAID THE OLDER LADY But I like them both. And I like the pretty,young lady and the hair-ribbon lady, too. Aunty Jones chuckled comfortably when shesaw the gingham. I declare, Debby! I dontknow as my needle 11 take to anything but might have thought of blue long ago, for it sa sight prettier. I 11 enjoy sewing on it. I could read to you while you sew, if youlike, ventured Deborah, quite thrilling with thesoft, clear shade of her new dress. Aunty Jonessface brightened. It would be a great you d read me my Bible piece first. Deborah found the Bible marker at the accountof Jehoshaphat going to meet the Moabites. Sheliked the swing of the old Jewish story. He ap-pointed singers unto the Lordand that they should praisethe beauty of holiness, sheread finally, and stopped tothink what the words beauty of holiness wasa thing she had not thoughtabout, but in a flash she sawit was the only true beautyin the world; one mu


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