St Nicholas [serial] . rePratt—that you believed all red-haired personbad tempers. WHY NELLIE WAS NOT POPULAR. 405 Of course I meant present company excepted. It would have been better not to mention redir at all in Miss Pratts presence, as her hair,ough beautiful, is decidedly of a reddish ;u made another blunder yesterday, and I thinkold Dr. Manning had had Elishas power, youuld have stood in considerable danger of beingIn to pieces by the bears after your facetious re-irks on the subject of bald Oh, I never thought about his being bald ! and get Minnie DuBose to play that, a
St Nicholas [serial] . rePratt—that you believed all red-haired personbad tempers. WHY NELLIE WAS NOT POPULAR. 405 Of course I meant present company excepted. It would have been better not to mention redir at all in Miss Pratts presence, as her hair,ough beautiful, is decidedly of a reddish ;u made another blunder yesterday, and I thinkold Dr. Manning had had Elishas power, youuld have stood in considerable danger of beingIn to pieces by the bears after your facetious re-irks on the subject of bald Oh, I never thought about his being bald ! and get Minnie DuBose to play that, as Nellie play it beautifully. Resentful creature ! Well, at any rate, I havenever said anything against Kates looks. No ; on the contrary, I once heard you remarkin the presence of a dozen of her schoolmates thatshe was by far the prettiest girl in Mr. Radfordsschool; but then you went on to qualify your praiseby coolly observing, However, I dont think thatis saying much for her. You showed more temer-. ::: j jiSut, my dear child, these are matters thatto be thought about. Let me give you onesimple rule, Nellie : Never remind any oneor her personal try to remember is another thing you would do well tonber—that comparisons are odious. WhenSibley played the Beautiful Blue Danubees for me the other evening, it was scarcelyj in you to exclaim as soon as she had fin- Oh, Aunt Alice, you ought to hear MinnieJ:?e play that ! She does play it beautifully .in the evening, when T asked Kate for the1 1 e Mazurka, she replied, Oh, you must wait »•» 1 ity than I imagined even you were possessed of ingiving so many young girls to understand that youdid not consider them at all pretty. Well, I dont think them pretty. Nor interesting either. At least so I judgedthe other night when, as they were going away,you observed, yawningly, Only ten oclock. Ithought it was a great deal later than that. Youare an unselfish child, Nellie, and always ready togive
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