The Girl of the Period.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 162, 24 July 1886, Page 11

The Girl of the Period.

At 6 o'clock her flow6rd canae ; at 8 she* and 'their sender were going to a cardl*party. "No, Jane, you need not open the^ box. Just peep in and see what colour: they are, then put them in the refrigerator* Pink roses? Well, I will wear my nvw Chinese silk. I will sleep about an hou^ longer, then come and put up my back: hair." And ha had foolishly selected them? with care and much expense. She did nofe even give them a glance, but closed heje* pretty eyes in sweetest slumber, unth.aueb.ti* ful of the roses that had bloomed forher% That night she modestly thanked him, anefc. murmured somothing about hi 3 delicate> little attentions." etc., and he? Why, qj? course he believed her when she returned, home with the prize, a bauble of beautyy, She carelessly removed them from over hep sordid little heart, and told Jane that they would do to put in the window on the> morrow. " For you know Jane likes alt the flowers that gen tlemon have sent to foa placed in the front window. She saye itj looks well, and shows that I am having attention, and I do have lots, don't I, Jane?** Three foolish men each tenderly lifted % pink rose from over his heart that night 1 ,, and thought ot his " dear good girl '* who* had given it.