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Still, Mabel Aylett was not a belle, and Rosa Tazeas Callow

collegians and enterprising youngacres and hosts of laborers; students

and practitioners of law and ue,

had broken their hearts for perhaps a irl in short dresses Yet there had

been a date very far back in the acquaintanceship of each of these

with the charmer, when he had marvelled at the infatuation which had

blinded her previous adorers She was "a neat little thing," with

her round waist, her tiny hands and feet and roguish eye--but there

was nothing else re, the

picture was too dark for his taste Why, she ht be mistaken for a

creole! And each critic held fast to his expressed opinion until the

roguish eyes , and he found hi--still

ecstatically--before he reached the botto upward through the surface What her

glances did not effect was done by her dazzling smile and musical

voice

As one of her victiht to be rejected

by her than to be accepted by a dozen other girls--she did the thing