The Royal Neighbor du lieu suivant : Beloit, Kansas • 10

THE WORLD AS IT IS the matter. Deep down in her heart B. B. RISER Tacy was perfectly aware that she had done a selfish thing in keeping Judy It's a gay old world when you're gay, from bathing. It had happened that of expecting everything and everybody to give way to her, She meant to be good she meant to be kind.

She gave freely of her pocket-money, and bestowed her possessions generously when opportunity offered; but she never thought of giving up herself, her will, and her way. She criticised right It's a world full of hato For the foolish who prate Of the uselessuess of It all. It's a beautiful world to see, Or It's dismal In every zone; The thing It must be In Its gloom or Its glee Depends on yourself alone. none of the family nor any of her cousins, who were generally glad to drive with her, were able to go that And a glad old world when you're glad; But whether you play Or go toiling away, lt'a a sad old world when you're snd. It's a grand old world If you're great, And a mean old world If you're small; morning, and Tacy never could bear to go alone.

The boys were off early, fishing; and she had engaged to meet them at the beach with their bathing clothes. Suddenly it occurred to her, why shouldn't Judy for once drive with her, and not take a bath that day? The idea, once in her mind, took firm hold. She was proud of Judy Miss Julia Klwood, as society would know her some day, for Judy was a great and left with an unsparing tongue but if some one happened to make a suggestion of criticism upon her, she resented it with instantaneous wrath. But she had become so used to the words, "poor Tacy," that she constantly thought that she was a little martyr to his misfortunes, and more sinned against than sinning, upon every occasion. Driving home that morning, after her encounter with her brother Jimmy, she was pricked by" conscience deep down in her heart for keeping Judy from her bath; but she constantly excused herself at the same time by blaming her brothers for their selfishness.

There was extra company to luncheon that day, and the boys took an early dinner, and were away fishing favorite and much sought after every where, and Judy was, moreover, aN lov ing and sweet little body, with whom Tacy could always get on nicely. And this meant so much so much even that Tacy herself didn't know. As her Uncle Dick had said, Tacy had been spoiled by her invalidism by knowing, as she emild not help knowing from what she had heard "so long, that she must always be considered and given way to for fear some excitement would until night, so that by the time Tacy met them again, which was at breakfast the next morning, something of the first freshness of the unpleasant ness had worn off. Tacy, too, had been put in great good humor by the fact injure her. That great illness of Tacy's had occurred when she wius seven years old.

She was a bright, promising child then, with a lovely fair complexion and golden hair. The after the little wagon, which was moving leisurely just then. Coming up to the wagon suddenly, he grabbed the fat pony's head before Tacy knew what had happened. She had dismissed her sullen looks, and was talking very pleasantly with her girl guest. "I say," cried Jimmy, us he caught the pony's head, "why must Judy give up bathing bceause you've given it up, Tacy? Judy's going home next week, and she.

came here especially on account of the bathing; her father wanted her to bathe evcrv day." "She can go if she wants to," answered Tacy, all the old sullen looks coming back. "Oh, no! I don't cart 1 just as lief not," hurriedly answered Judy, auxious to avert the storm. "She does care," retorted Jimmy, regarding only his sister as he spoke. Then swiftly turning about and putting out his hand, he pounced upon Judy's bathing suit at the Imttom of the wagon. "There! that proves it!" he that she was to have her mother's special friend, lovely Mrs.

Arkwright, to drive with her that morning, Judy illness had resulted from an accident. Some neighbors children had enticed her over the lawn to play at fire-works one summer day. Her ignorant little hands had seized ujon a toy cannon, and in one blinding flash there suddenly came an explosion that took away all those golden curls and ruined that lovely white and pink skin. The Tyrant Tacy NORAH PERRY A little yellow village-wagon was being pulled slowly "over the cobblestones near the bathing-houses? at Newport by a fat and lazy black pony, urged on to its work by a young girl between fifteen and sixteen years of age. "Come, hurry!" shouted a boy from the smooth, hard sand beyond.

"Give him a whack with the whip-handle." The girl in the wagon put down her head very much as her pony was doing, but not from the same motive. Tacy Blundel was not lazy at any moment at this particular moment she was in any but a lazy mood the little down-dropping the chin signifying, instead, a sudden uprising of temper. A very small thing for a girl to become angry about, to be sure; but Tacy was constantly losing her temper over just such small things. With a sullen look on her face, and her chin crushing the ruffle of lace at her throat, Tacy drove her pony over the stones, with not an added jot of celerity, and without using her whip, much less the handle of it. Robert, or Bobby Blundel, as every one called him, had a mutinous expression on his jolly red face as she came up, but lie didn't say anything except to give a rather short demand to "heave out the things" the "things" in question signifying his bathing-clothes.

As he received the bundlehe reached forward to help the young girl who was sitting beside Tacy to alight. But the young girl smiled and shook her head. "What! you are not going to bathe?" he asked. "No, not today," said the girl. "Why not?" said Bobby.

"You've changed your mind rather suddenly, it seems to me." The girl smiled and blushed uneasily. shock and suffering threw the child into a fever. It was thought a great mercy that her eye-sight was spared, cried. "Come Judy, we all are waiting for you." "No, no I really can't. I don't Oh, and for a long time her mother was so thankful for this that she did not give much thought to anything else.

But as the days and the months and the vears went by, it was found that go away, Jimmy!" Her distress was so genuine that Jimmy ceased his urging, but he turned like a tiger on Ah sister. "It's all your doing; you're a perfect tyrant. I will say so, and you may have a dozen tantrums for -all I care!" and flinging the bathing suit back into the wagon, Jimmy let go the pony's head and started off. "Well, you'll catch it," said Bobby, to whom he presently related his ex ploit. and the boys going together in the omnibus, or drag.

Tacy was a great admirer of Mrs. Arkwright, and well she might have been, for Mrs. Arkwright was full of the most gracious kindness and tact. And Mrs. Arkwright liked Tacy, though she knew Tacy-through and through, as Tacy had no idea that she did.

Every one in trouble found a friend in Mrs. Arkwright, and Tacy, as they drove on through the lovely Newport lanes and by-ways, began to pour out hers, and it was not long before her good friend had a very clear idea how affairs stood just then. "Oh, it is such a pity!" thought Mrs. Arkwright. "No one has ever told Tacy no one has had the courage or the tact to know how to tell her just how it is.

If some one could tell her, could open her eyes, I'm sure it wouldn't do her any injury, but a great deal of good. Nothing can be so injurious as these constant quarrels and this morbid state of feeling that she has; and Tacy has really noble qualities, so loving a heart!" And thinking thus, Mrs. Arkwright looked around tenderly, pitifully, smilingly at Tracy, who was in the midst of her grievances. Tacy saw the look, and responded with a smile of her own, and presently broke out impulsively: "Oh, Mrs. Arkwright, you are so kind and good and sympathetic, I feel sure that you would always love me, whatever I might do!" And then Mrs.

Arkwright thought: "I wonder if I might not tell her some day. If the right time comes, I will." The time came sooner than she anticipated. It came on the occasion of the lawn party that Tacy gave in honor of her friend Judy. Everything had gone on very smoothly in all the preparations, and Tacy was in high spirits, with not a flaw or ripple to disturb her serenity. But just before her guests began to arrive, as she was standing with Judy and her brothers by the great window that opened on I don care," doggedly replied Jimmy.

"Tacy is a tyrant. When every tiling suits her to a she can be as pleasant as anybody; but the min Tacy would never again have her pretty, smooth complexion, and that her hair would never again grow with that soft, silken abundance. Her face was not seamed with scars, but there was a roughened, thicker look to the skin, and she was uniformly pale except when, at some emotion, an unbecoming reddish flush would spread all over cheeks and brow and nose. Before Tacy entered her fifteenth year, she was fully conscious of her looks, that is, that there was something to mark her as odd and unlike other people, to make her unalterably plain. She was sensitive to beauty in others, and sensitive to the lack of it in herself.

As time went on, from day to day she grew more and more sensitive, and this made her moody and shy and often irritable. She began at last to exaggerate her defects, and to be suspicious of criticism if people gave her more than a passing observation. All this produced a condition of mind that rendered her a very exacting and difficult person to live with. With some very generous and noble qualities, which, if cultivated or allowed full and free action, would have made her welcome ute anybody critcises or opposes her, she gets her own way by falling back She was evidently embarrassed. Bobby.

on that heart-disease of hers. I wish I had heart-disease! Jingo! I'd go off in a tantrum and get a bicycle quicker than a wink!" Bobby smiled, then sobered a little, and said generously: "Tacy isn't a bit mean and selfish in other ways. She'll give you anything she has. She gave me that jolly knife of hers with the pearl handle last week." "Well, if she'd keep her temper, she glanced at his sister Tacy, inquiringly. Tacy knew what tliat glance meant, but did not respond to it; instead, her sullen expression deepened, and giving her pony a little flick with the point of the whip-lash, she drove off, leaving her brother standing on the beach-sand, where, in a moment, he was joined by the two other Blundel brothers Jimmy and Charley.

"What's up?" inquired the two in a breath. "Oh, Judy isn't going in, this morning," grumbled Bobby. "Why not?" inquired the two others. "I don't know; ask tyrant Tacy. Tacy isn't going, so she's managed that Judy sha'n't," replied Bobby, "She's wheedled her somehow." "Bother! I won't stand it.

Tracy!" and Jimmy Blundel shouted his sister's might keep everything else," said the unpacified Jimmy. "Tacy's been spoiled," put in Charley "I heard Uncle Dick tell mother so the and beloved by every one, the wild weeds of self-indulgence were fast other day, and mother asked him what could be done when the doctor said overcoming her, and rendering her dis agreeable and unwelcome. after she was so sick, that they must be careful and net let her get ex In short, Tacy was a tyrant, as Jimmy had said, and it all had grown cited." ALL THREE While the boys were thus discussing out of that long-ago accident which name lustily, and started to run after had placed her in the position of an her, Tacy was driving along on the smooth, hard sand with her friend invalid to whom all must defer, year the yellow wagon. Bobby seized his brother's and cried Judy. She was trying to act as i after year.

"Tacy must have this," nothing were the matter, and talk to To Introduce our goods we will send this beautiful stone set, engraved HEIBA DRESS PIN SET of three piecrs. ABSOLUTELY FREE, to any one Bending to us their same and addresa "No, no, don't. We shall get a good scolding at home if we provoke Tacy." Judy pleasantly and politely of other and "Tacy must have that," and "Tacy must not be crossed or worried or troubled whatever happened," had been reiterated so many times that at things but it was difficult work, for But Jimmy Blundel, too indignant to she knew, and she knew that Judy ALDEN MFG. 255 SAB1N PROVIDENCE, R. I.

care for anything, but his one fixed knew, that something very much was idea, wrenched himself away, and tore last Tacy herself had formed the habit In writing to advertisers mention Royal Neighbor..