Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1890 — What a Poor Child Thought, [ARTICLE]

What a Poor Child Thought,

A young girl, beautiful in form, feature, and dress, sat in a car. Directly opposite sat a poor child of about the same age, shabbily clothed, with a shambling body, slightly deformed as to the shoulders, and an exceedingly plain face, which bore the lines of suffering and want. Her eager eyes were fixed on the face and figure opposite her with a devouring, pathetic look that showed how keenly alive she was to the exceeding beauty of a beautiful body. The object of the gaze .began to grow uneasy under its intensity and fixity, and finally, looking the girl coldly in the face, she leaned pertly across the aisle, and said: “Well, Miss Impertinence, if you have looked at me long enough, you will be kind enough to look somewhere else. I’m tired of it. ” The poor child grew first red and then white. A look of keen pain came into her eyes, and then tears, as she turned away, and said softly: “I was only thinking how beautiful you are.”