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Show j Tlie OlJest GIrL There Is a certain ring of prido in I a man's voice, says the Ladic' Home Jvumai, when he introduces one of his own friends by saying: "This Is my oldest girl." It's a ring that-cotnes from satisfaction. Ife has found that that oldest girl of his has known how to make all life pleasant4 r In the houehold, and there is nothing which delights him so much as fur her to liave some sort of au entertainment where the other drls and the Joung men are asked. Then he thinks they seejustwhat bis oldest girl is. She knows bow to make this tormal party a very pleasant pleas-ant one; she hasn't got tho room so Oruwded with decorated scrap baskets, bask-ets, juicer flowers, ribbon-trimmed choirs and untidy tidies as to inter-insea inter-insea mrcvu lietween everybody; but she lias it looking w ell furnished, homelike and cheerfuL The lamp shades are so bright ns only glasses can be, nndjou know- whose busy hands ktep them in order all the year round. On the table are the Illustrated tajicrs, some photographs and some book?. Xot stiffly piled, but laid about caielc&siy that they may be p'eked up and talked about, some pretty pictures stand on the top of the piano, and there Is a vase filled with flow era, so that the shyest girl in the world doesnt mind gulug back there to play fur everybody be-fause be-fause her face is hidden. VMfipnl.tuuf girl is considerate. Then tlie pleasant little break conies when the light cake, the daintily-cut sandwiches, the chocolate In its thin cujaand the lemonade lu Its small glasses are serte-d. VouroldestKlrlandtbeother drLs arranged all thl, and then, so tint there might lie no confusion, liad plates and mpkins piled on the table, and, in addition to 3 our own one obliging maid, got In her sister for the evening, to evetylsxly was served. She had hard work to con-vlncethe con-vlncethe maid that all the ladies "w iu aueuueu to iirst, but at Ia.-t she did make her understand that each group was to lie served, and so the chatter and talk w eie not stopped. Sbegot whoetershe could to play something pleasant ou the piano, but she didn't encourage classical mus'c. When it ramn tn r question of singing slio preferred that whoever could woulj give them dainty little liollads, and et en-tually en-tually thu evening was wound up with a song familiar to them all; and every body, old and joung, joined In the choru. You're riht. Say it w itti irlde alwaj s. Look at herlotiuglyand aprtclatest her full worth "your oldest girl." |