The Maid »f Arts
; I »V ^:fPS^IFORD. '•
j Copyri sbarfl It*. bjf ti H. SuteUtfe. I
i nmwvtwxwituwwiMiwMdi
I.'nbrol^b' ,h*Hie tile sky had sea.
shifting gtehus ijlul browns file stidre.
Along iliA dqserth<l beach and through
the emptjf streets Autumn swished her
rustling skirt* with no one to heed her
passiug‘-no (vie. at least, save a solitary
man jiwfco, having escaped at* length
from Vlie stern dictates of "the law,”
had come to Suffslde for a few weeks’
freedom. Leaning over the fenqe
which skirted .the path nroun4 ttje
rocky coast, he gazed dreamily Out to
sea, following the ragged outllhe of
the shore and breathing In the shit of
the ocean with the sweetness off tie
earth beneath.tiini. ..j> .. ...j
Suddenly a fr«^'VtttK»‘the.'‘weather
woni rail caught nls eye. "IT. T~ w.,
’04!” 8|me"<we.bqsidje. ldffljself had
evident!# songjit ■ujgtjfcjjribtjgjB lit#' In
the seagon.
a knife ibla'de lirrftcM Itlul slioi*/'In
the wooij), an Indisputable evidence of
woman'i work? a . * » ..... jj #,,44
• so, !f>0 luuscu, i urn nut xo ue
alone with the ‘natives’ and nature,
after all.” He started to move on.
Again he was arrested, this time by a
smfl.ifcMitJ# object at, {94, ^t,
proved to bo a Wellesley class piu.
“tost It while she was carvlhg her
uaine with that doll’s knife, I s’pose,”
Va%- Dyke argued to lilmBelf, as wns
his legal hnl)rt;'fiiWtehlirg'thc pin mean-;
whle to his vest beneath Ids own
Harvard pin.
polling on, he renewed his ac
quaintance wlth one after another of
the favorite haunts of his' boyhood—
"swallow's cave,"' the rock that booui
cdjllke a cannon at high tide and ln
nniserable cozy retreats to be gained
bXjgareful climbing over the chaos of
Mgf bowldepj (j|u the cliffs. He whls
tl® like a boyf“ha he" wept!1 htfd sang
snatches of the college songs 90 fresh
Infills heart, At last. In utter aban
donment, tie'cuiflt!'d'"ttfr lri the lee W *nn
overhanging rock and, soothed by the
Inf.of the waves and the minor wall of
wind, fell asleep,
vgkoued In a curlpus map
g his eyes, he found them
;t a soft transparent some
vrlnkled when he winked,
is hand to remove It and
mlshment upon his sudden
of u woman’s handker
ouogrum was embroidered
in ono’cortier'.” Hts logtoal liUnd fecit
phered It In a flash with little expend
tturo of eyq strain.
. “Exhibit ‘C,’." he murmured, JmhP-i
log up engerly. “Now, here’s hoping
for the lady herself 1” ; 1 |
If. But the most searching scrutiny of;
rpeky “nests” and niches failed to dis
cover her. Indeed, after several days;
of faithful expldratlonj Van Dyke be
gan to think his lady" of the mono
grams a teasing myth. ’ • i
Nevertheless he would have consu
lted |o hope for her realization it «
letter frem his sister had not put,*
cruel end to his romance.
trour lucxmru, it ran, x nave jusi
learned that Helen Tudor, a college
friend of mine, is staying at SurfalUe
with her mother. She’s a very clever
girl; has just written , a remarkable
thesis on some learned subject and gcit
ah ATM. degree. Ton ought to like
her. She’s your kind. Be sure to look
her up. I’ve written her you’re going
«£ She’b.hfAyjng at the Sea CHff.”
xhtf dished the whole thing. '‘H|s
kind,” Indeed! He abominated a "blue
stocking." So he,fought shy of the Sea
Cliff and ceased to look for “H. T.. Vf„
“Why, bow did you guess r* asked
Rlcluml in surprise. “I’ve never seer,
you here before/'
“Biit I've seen you.’f, - t t": !
He gathered hie witskogetlier'nt this.
It made no difference that she war
pretty and that she was fond of love
stories, like other girls—he knew hpr
rehl self behind this mask of coquetry.
She was really ii Iwughty^om’benring,
pedantic person with a string of aca
demic degrees tacked on to her name.
He woyld round'up this little matter
wlthoqt any sentimental nonsense.
"Oh, yes,” he said in Ills dignified,
legal mannar. “You probably refer to
tho day you dropped your hqjhdker
chlef on my face. Here It jk ,1 am
glad to be able to return it to you.
And hero is your college pin alstr. I
found it near the fence where you had
been carving your iaifiyia.'’ .
I He handed both souvenirs to bar
with a cold solemnity he had- difficulty
in convincing himself was genuine.
The girl looked af the fjilnJparefuHy,
glanced up at Uicliard ft moment In
perplexity and then burst oht laugh;
iug. , '4
ft! “Thank you,’ft she said finally, recov
eriug herself, “But why do you Im
agine the pin belongs- io me?” "K
rOcfiaid ex'ilWIblvff ,|wlfh elaborate
pride, how ho had traced the mono
gj»u> Oh the $rice, the pin ami the;
handkerchief! »' -k
*'I cannot be mistaken, Mills Tudor,”
hi Qniblied CdpfUlently. “You see, i;
discovered jlouir' identity Some tithe
ago.. You did t;arve the initials on the
tMkce,*dId»’t''y*t»H JkI u< * m tr ..
“Yes.”
“And you did drop the handkerchief
over my eyes?”
“It blew out of my ha.nd.”
“Same thing. And you m-o stopping
at the Sea Cliff, aren’t you ?”
“Yes.”
Richard made a gesture expressive
»f, the futility of stating further evi
dence. ,
The girl made an effort to-check her
amusement.
“I will take up your points in se
quence,’’ she announced, with mock
gravity, looking at him with a fraul;
ness so'charming that lie' forgot hlh
dislike'of her and smiled hack indul
gently. j
“First, I did carve the initials la the
fence,'but they were tbe Initials of the
girl who was with me: Becond, It was
she who lost the j01h, Aht6>'* third, thft
initials-en the handkerchief are uot
H. T.”
“Then" you are hot Helen Tudor?"
exclaimed Richard, with such evident
relief that the girl burst out laughing
again. “Ahd 'ybu don*t write clever
theses and rtack.,9n to your
name?” ’ '*■'
Tbe girl shook her head.
Richard took up her handkerchief,
which yens lying in her lap.
“It certainly looks like H. T. to me,”
he said, examining the monogram
closely. “I am not yet convinced.”
The girl handed him the water soak
ed nnyel.i open at the fly leaf.
"To Thettdora' IIaruett,“ he Head
aloud.
He took out his ‘pencil and began
scribbling beneath the Inscription. The
girl looked over bis shoulder.
“Theodora, ‘I adore you”— That was j
as far as his foolishness, had a chance
to go, for In a flash Theodora had
snatched the book from his hands and
sped like a deer over the rocks- j
“Come back tomorrow,” he called,
"and tell me how the story ends.”
And she did—And not only that day,
but the next and the next, until the
end of their awn atory, like that In thei
water soaked novel, came with the1
asking of a question and an answer
short, hut sweet.
“But, oh, how near you came tq
marrying H. T., didn’t you, Richard?”
laughed Theodora bewltchlugly. “Well,
she’s welcome to all the A. M.’s and
other degrees sho deserves, f’m hap
py with jufct V. D.” :
“There’s one degree that’s yours by
nature, little ‘maid of arts,’ ” said
Richard lovingly. “Cupid must havp
conferred'it 'on ybU at your christening.
It isn’t acquired from books, not evefr
from water soaked novels.” ;
% ■*-.
'lAre Vflu l#ft Ea#d7? § .
“Left eared?” said the physicpa.,
“Most of yoh girls are.” ffl
“Left eared?” said the young ljudy
from the telephone exchange,
iij ‘‘Yes, left egred, •, The same as jjfeft
Wi&d-thaji fa t<| #iy, is your leftlijaf
#Wfr nan your ri|ht
one?” " ’ HI”;
She did not kuow, so he tested Iter,
HqtRhP, jaujq enough, that her ieftplfer
was a little the afeutef’of 'th’eyWo. tig >
s .*«t tla. ,n„, natural , thing,’,’ be ifid.
"You girls use the left ear exclusively
’till cMy’lWtig' ii your telephone work,
,#«$ the ri^ht ear has nothing tofjffjo;'
hence tneTeft7iu» a'Juusclfe.WfleveWps,
the right atropUlpsk, I..
“Indeed,.” he ended, “If the telephone
tsdihes liftwnHieh greater use we shall
have-not rnqrcly left,, pared exchange
girls, but w-«nihalr 4 left eared
naUoaifiSt-CtocUijitRlilhWPlW*
>♦«» tfajj-'OlHL'-* * 1 '■
“4h,.Rw fltoellthkof Bodin’* bust of
Henley In Westminster abbey” said a
N*w «fMk editor, dSa number of good
stories were fold about tbe great poet.
**«. G/’Weil^ pfafaed Henley’^ con
duct pf }he' New Review. Of course
this periodical failed, yet It was un
doubtedly the best-edited magazine of
the -lpst century. In It Henley intro
duced to” the World now - Wrlteirs; of
such distinction as Joseph Conrad,
Kenneth Grahame, W. B. Yeats, Mr.
Wells himself and so on. One ditty as
Mr. Wells and Henley stood In tfatt of
fice of the magazine discussing rath
er sadly its gloomy prospects a funeral
went by with slow pace. Henley lfinn
iJBd~9.UiL.9f .the window and looked at
the funeral anxiouslyT ’TfifeH'tttf'tttfued
to his companion and said, with a wor
ried frown:
“ ‘Can that be our subscriber? ”
BUYING A SAW.
Find Out th« Kind You Want Before
You Go to Purchase.
When,.flic man in the golgcap start
ed downstairs Ilfs wife ran to the door
and called hini back. ,y ’ : : ^
“Ilarry,” she said, “I want you to go
Into a hardware store today and get a
saw. Don’t forget ft, please. We need
one badly,”
Being an accommodating person, tile
man in the golf cap said he would not
forget It. He.cheap the; luncheon; hour
as the most opportHBO^tijinPCfjJ# making
his simple purchase, Ho was in a good
humor, and he smiled: blandly When be
went Imstitegrlnto the store and said:
“I want a saw, please."
"tt’hat..fcltwl Of a saw?” asked- the
dork.
-,“\¥hfr." 1 said the prospectiYp - pur
chaser. “I don’t knows just a-iiww.
Any kind will db. I
The clerk sighed. “If yoiu only knew
what yon want to use it for, perhaps,
I could advise yo^,” he suggested. :
“What I want to use It fdilTWI^iia.
Ael man in Ihq? golf cap. “Why, I
waftt to salt, 10# course—that'Is.-iiwy
folks do;’* - .1 i&uUU.wii ^
oaw wijiai: hkkcu me ciera.
!'1 -tfon'ti know,” admitted the non
plused shopper;
'The clerk led the way to the rear of
the Store., “I will'show you a few of
the different varieties of saws wie have
on hand,”' he paid. “Observation and
'explanation of their uses and prices
may asslsit you In making a decision.
Here is a metal saw. It is made of
highly tempered steel and will saw
Iron, copper, lead and all manner of
metals-. * Is that the kind you want?” j
The man In the golf cap was sorely
perplexed. “No,” he said. “I don’t
think so. We have no metals'At our
house -to work on that I know of.”
i “Perhaps you would like a meat
Saw?” suggested the clerk. “But you
•re-not a butcher.”..
“Heaven be praised, no!” said the
man who wanted a saw.... j,;y
“Here is a regular kitchen ■ saw for
general utility' purposes. Jt will cost
you only 50 cents. How (Joes « that
Strike you,? No?... Then here is the
cabinetmaker!*' saw., ~ Then 1 have
here the plumbers’: saws,; the fine deli
cate saws used hy all,manner of artifi
cers and the. ordinary: wood; saws,
Which will cost you anywhere from o0
cents to $4. In that hack room we
have still Mother varieties of saws—the
two man ten foot saws, buzz saws and
circular saws. If yon want to pay a
big price you had; better take one of
the circular saws. Til give you a good
one for $500. Would you. like to* see
them?” I. : • -
The man in the golf cap looked about
him wonderlhgly. . ; "
“No, thank you,” he said, “i guess
I won’t take any till I find oiif just
what kind I want,”
“I regret being unable to make a
sale,” said the clerk; affably, “bu£ ’ 1
really think that the best plan.”—Gin*
eiunati;Kuquirer: r: ' »
Richter’* Conducting,
Couutless are the stories told of the
genialty ' of Dr.;: Haas Richter. Once!
while rehearsing a Mozart symphony
In which the first violins had a number
of de! Iea'<6‘ frills ’afad tifrns' ttt 'perform j.
these were played too heavily for Rich-:
ter,‘ who said: “Please, gentlemen,1
pianissimo! Queen Mab, not suffra
gettes.” Again .when on one occasion*
Richter:was not thoroughly satisfied!
with the orchestral rendering of a
scene from ‘Tristan und Isolde” *hej
stopped the rehearsal and asked foe
more dignity in the playing, adding
that Isolde Was the daughter of a king*
not of a cook-. On another occasion
while rehearsing Tsehnlkowsky’s “Ho*
meo and Juliet” music the-violoncellbs
have a very passionate melody to play!
Richter was by - no means satisfied
that the needful Waripth of expression
had been obtained. “Gentlemen, gen
tlemen.” said tth, “j;oti,all’ play tike';
married men, not like lovers.”—London
Tlt-BIt*. ’if v * : I
Girlp’ Names.
In the eighteenth century girls Were
Christened /Sophia- and-Caroline, in-iheiij
early, nineteenth Etoma'ahd Jane'.'
tittle ltjter Laura and- dlara. Tfieja.
Caine a ryop of borothys and Marjo-"
ries, who are; now all calling their otvk;
babies (In a reaction against-tbe
“guatnt”). Elizabeth. The names' if
men suffer no such emphatic fashions,
and y$ it is a pleasure to note that
there; ,?re. 'certainly no more . young
men; polled Aif; hnd bus, as were tijs
young men who walked with the cTrlpp
oline in.the days of Leech. Good is tfitN
sound ojt JjDlm through all changesj-p
London Chronicle, •" 7 —■ Jw
_- j j ||
.A Trick With Numbers.
■Choose any four consecutive num
bers, as 50, 51, 52 and- 03. Multiply
(hem together, and the. product may #
divided by 24. JThis will be found to
held tn|p for any' four consecutive
numbers we may choose- unless oiie
of tbe numbers is 24 or a multiple if
24, such as 48; 72, 96, etc.. In tbe sat#
way any five consecutive numbers mul
tiplied together may be divided >jp
120 unless one of the numbers is )|j()
or a multiple of 120.—St. Louis Repnb
ii
, .. The Pint Golf Links,
Tbe orthodox number of eighteen
holes, it seems, was fixed by "pjute
chance. There were originally twenty
two holes on St. Andrews links, and iso
•It continued fill'1704, when .the fijsst
four holes were cohverted' into #a>.
Thenceforward every- full coufte has
been laid out to correspond with a^Ula
mater.—London Saturday Review, j -
Our strength grows out of our weak
ness. Not until we are pricked jand,
stung and surely shot at awakens the
Indignation which arms itseir with se
; cret forces.—Emerson.__
RAISED MS WAGES.
Th« Way an Employer Got Square
With e Faithless, Assistant.
A story;' Is told 111 Milwaukee con
cerning an elderly (Jerniau who con
ducted ■ a good sized manufacturing
plant ob til© south side. lie had an
engineer at his factory who had been
with him for fifteen years andstbe old
gentleman hod implicit confidence in
hiiu. It was with a profound shock
that he discovered finally tlial itlie
"misted engineer whs “grafting” inost
shamefully.
p The proprietor thought it ail over for
a long Whl)e and then sent for the en- '
gineer. When that functionary arriv
ed the following: dialogue took place:
5 “Ah, John! Good morntug, John. How
long haf you been vorking by this
jMce?" !
j, “•J'lfteejgt, years.”
I “Ach, so. Aiial-vot are your Wages?”
1 “Twenfyrflve dollars a week.”
I ‘‘M-m-uin'-lfaU. aftfer today tt vill be
$5 a reek more.”
The. :;ffjg|jp,eer ; thanked his employer
. rew. A week later ]
Jiijisent for him again,
Unversatten ensued,
.another go a week raise.
The third Saturifa^ be'shnt 'fdr’ the '
engineer again, and. after the same
questions and answers lie raised his
salary another $5 a week.
On the fourth Saturday the engineer
was again summoned before the boss.
“How long hate you' been ; Vorking
here, John?”! asked, the proprietor.
“Fifteen years,” replied the engineer,
who by this time had grown to expect
the weekly question and salary raise
as a regular thing.
“And how much vages are you get
ttngf* :
“Forty dollars a week.”
“Ach, so? Veil, you are fired.”
"Fired!” exclaimed the enjj$neeiv,,al
most fainting. “Why, you Jpve been
raising my salary $5 at a clip fqfrtljie
last'three weeks.” m ||| 0 'ip
“Sure I have,” roared the” Teutonic
boss, all his indignation flaring out at
once. “And the reason that I did it
va’s! that it shall make It harder for
you for vhfn I Are you, yon loafer!”—
Milwaukee,Wisconsin.
: t m--'Shi. nsM
SILVER M |E
Th* Feats That a Tarpon Will Per
form When Hooked.
It you have never seen a tarpon Im
agine the MedlteFTMiean sanljne that
you take fromth*. box ifoy jjvmcii
lengthened out to six or seven feet.
Give it two enormous staring black
eyes, a supercilious lip of the most
grotesque shape coming down anti
i twisting up again, a mouth that can
he thrown so wide open that thirty
fetjt distant when the fish Is lu the air
you can see blue Bky down Its throat
and out through the arched‘gills, i Give'
the fish a greenish back and a long
spine at the dorsal, * ..powerful pardlne
llke tall and equip its belly and sides
With scales which look more like new
ly minted trade dollars than anything
else, dollars often twice their natural
Size, Into which the purest molten sil
ver has been dropped, scales that flash
thousands of rays In every direction,
s&ales that tteanb corrascate *nd;i iu
the full glare of the sun forth So many
Sunbursts to dazzle the eye! Irfd' cbh
ittise the excited angler.
t have taken the 1‘aahalo” under va-..
rijous circumstances ahd have saen; lt
iaap along the outer Florid* reef and
down by the Rio Grande, whCre 'it
forms in gigantic schools and moves
sbuth In winter, and everywhere it is
the Same sensational equilibrist, the
same air climber and sky scraper when
hooked or snared. What th‘e sensations
the jtacpoii} sps ,w|eu hooked it
..Would be difficult to say, but I fantf
it is .frightened and leaps in the direc
tion away from- tbe pain .pShter||nnp
40 t|vo leaps are alikc'.' >? ®.* , 1 hjjj.f
V] It {may go directly up into the air,
harrying a big wave with It. and lash
Ijhe air, or it may go out of the water
gracefully. Every possible position I
Pave *een,tbea|rigWjgnedj.t)M'j>oii Jake.,,
from 5ten<%§i jS||‘#8lfe»r#t #
P sogQ|gr tolMggpr Me jp^P^t^pllretp
t ioiv-nnd Hrn old an#erulnfm|pd me
that he had seen a tarpon make a
lateral leap of thirty feet.-*-Cha,rms. E...
ilHoIden in Recreation.
iV ... __.. -
A Littla Too Ori&Thef:
“You New Yorkers are wonders,”
JWMLiMjB&JL from the west here for
a brief stay anS'^ seelhg'-'Sv'erythTug
from the Bronx to the Bowery.
“Nothing Is Impossible here—at least 1
saw vines twined across the sky last
S^diti stauramitv Forty
IFI
lng about, but then there are the vlues
that kill the otherwise Very neat jilfe
lusion. Originality is ail right, but
vines hitched to a sky is too much for
•, ?n%u ffom the west.’VNew York
Globe. ’ 1 1
The Main Volnt
Mrs. Scrapleigh—They say, my dear,
that the new rubber ■•.plant’, the Ficus
fajMMMfcls; w&SWMr beautiful, fe rt>
lias a glossy veined leaf— Mr. Scrap-’
letgl) (who has strained his back lug
ging the house plants around)—I don’t
care anything about its glossy Veined
leaves. What does the dum thing
weigh ?—Cleveland plain Dealer.
A Great Financier.
Cholly—Harry Is a great financier.
Chappie—Yass I Chelly—He, borrowed
sixpence from me yesterday to take
knew he could borrow a pound'"from.
stand a dinner to another man Nvnoth
he borrowed a hundred from.—London
Telegraph,
(KMtWMMWmv WVR
Her Sealskin.!
iBy FRANK fit. SWEET.
Copyrighted, 1607, by E. C. I’areelte. j |
|W one over accused Mrs. Stone of
-bljing unduly sympathetic. Ten years’
experience with a brutal husband and
ten subsequent years of buffeting wjth
the World had deprived her of that
sentimental quality, if indeed she had
ever possessed it. She was admirably
fitted to be what she was—head of the
Associated Charities of a large city.
Impostors who came fawntng down
the corridor dreaded this sharp eyed,
thin lipped woman. What an expert
cross examiner- the years of insight
and unbelief had made• herl IIow dif
ficult it was to have the telltale Itottlo
pt cover up the telltale odor when She
descended on their abodes! ■
, She had driven away half the mendi
cants bi -town! The worthy ones whom
she had -’-made 'comfortable at. home—
they .eveu.wemioaot grateful; they
missed the noise and excitement'olPffre
street. Bpt Mrs. Stone was obdurate.
If the police would not enforce the
begging ordinance, she would. If the
really needy' ones would stay at home,
she would see that they were provided
for; .if they infested the street, not a
penny should they have from her, and
she Would see that they were arrested
into the bargain. So the blind laven
der men took to woodcarving, and
they all grumbled and were very un
.... _ ,
One morning a woman In a bedrag
gled black gown and a veil with a hole
tot ?ame just over the tip of her nose
nSide her way into Mrs. Stone’s office.
Sifts. Stone knew the’, type - husband, a
laWingman, jiijlit dead? froth three to
sfi yonnfe children, not one of earning
.»,, V.
“Be seated,” said Mrs. Stone brusque
ly, but not unkindly, and her limp
guest t perched uncomfortably on the
edge'of the Only chair, which was so
located that every ray of cold gray
light iSpifetied out the linens 111 the vis
jltor^fece. “What can I do fdr yon?”'
c “l vrant week,” said the woman.
“What kind?” V ‘'4& ■
“Any kind of work by the dly.W
“Can you clean?”
“yeS.” \
••wash weir?” i.;„- )( i ?r
“Pretty well.”
“Cook Y*
“Bbuie—idain things.”
. jr'lt’ni^cleaning would :he best for
you.” lit; sr isK “if Jr . i
Mrs. Stone noted these details in a
book, together with age, name, ad
dress, nativity, and then came down to
more interesting details.
“How long have you lived here?”
syj i
Mrs. Stone raised her eyebrows.
“Where did you come from?”
The woman mentioned a nearby
tOWf,..... •,
“Why did you leave there?”
“My husband died.”
“How long ago?”
- [“About three weeks?’’ s .. * j> .fc £
g “How many childrea have you?’>:
t "Five.”
"Ages, please.
“The: oldest is ten.”
“rfusliftnd leave: You:'anything?"
finale wftinan hesitated-i || S 4
' “Yte,litUe," she tsaid finally.5- &
“How much?”
“Well, the society buried' him and
paid the doctor, and I had a little left.”
“How much?” came the remorseless
qutstioii. * ~C:- ; '■< a <* felt t ■,,
.“About $300”:
: “You have that?”
“No, ma’am.”
--■(‘What did you do w4U.it?"
“I bought somethin®”? § |
“Indeed!” Mis. [Stone's pencil was
suspended in th*e air. “What?”
“A sealskin sack.”
“A what?” Mrs. Stone almost shont
r,: *'*»<-» & ii»h ;<■
The woman cast down her eyes. “A
seplskln sack,” she repeated almost in
«#!#• M W If
-fwljjl, Iftfecjarp!"- Sirs. Stone said
aWud, “A ojmrWpman with a new
$300 sealskin!” she added to herself.™'
a savhen do you ;prpppee to wear it,”
she went on to inquire—“io you? work'
in the morning?”
“Oh, no-, thataiB,” continued the wo
man, taking the question seriously. “I
wouldn’t wear it every day. On Sun
days I’ll wear H sometimes, it-it’a not
too sunny and doesn’t rain. Theyf.say
rain doesn't hurt ’em, but I wouldn’t
take the chances—and sun fades ’em.”
“What gopd is It to dQjfou, then?”
“Oh, I take . fljj ottjt of - Its ibugj'anid
stroke It morning ami night and be
tween whiles whteu | time. ThetSe i
isn’t much danger of’its being stole?.
No one would suspect such a thing
In, a place like ours, and I’d thr4$h a
Child within an Inch of Its life-Who
dared tell of it. Fire’s the worst. 1 do
dread fire. I wish I could insure !$.’£!:?!,
Mrs. Stone was facing one of the
problems of her career.
“I don’t understand it at* all,?' she
said, “why- you should have spent yciui
entire capital so wastefujly and so
uselessly? You have nothing to wear
with the thing,' and you come to a
charitable association to get wort for
you.”
“I’ll tell you,” said the woman eager-:
ly, her face lighting up. “I had want,
ed a sealskin all my life. I. was a fac
tory girl, and on my way home at
night I used to stop before the fur
shops and look in—all those iovelY'
capes and things—I wanted them alb
I’d have learned to sew fur and have
-worked lu a fur shop if I'd have dared,*
but I was afraid I’d steal something.
Then I married John, and there was
nfethijig' tbut -hard. Work, Jind. b/tbjes.,
Sometimes I couldn’t get out to look
la a fur window for a week at a
— .— ja-Jftd
| time; Theft John died.” The woman’s
face was alight. “Three hundred dol
lars wouldn't buy much for six. but it
would bjjy a sealskin. I wanted it ali
I my life! 1 sever had so much ruoriey
at one time before—I couldn’t help
I Just had so buy It. I was never so
happy in my life as the night I wore It
home, and I’m just as happy witb.lt
now. I’d do it again. I'll work my
fingers to the bone for my children.
But I suppose you won’t help me to get;’
work now!”
The woman had risen from the
chair’s edge. Mrs. Stone was medita
tively tupping the desk with her pen
cil.
“Walt a minute,” she said. Mrs.
Stone was thinking. She was remem--1’
bering that two of her lady directors,
lately widowed, were seeking forget
fulness In Europe,! the. meager allow
ance granted by th© Stingy departed
'having been multiplied by a generous
court while the estates were being set
tled; Mrs. Stone might not be sympa
thetic, but she was logical and fair
minded.
"There’s a jaaltorshlp vacant In a
school which I might get for you.”
she snifi. -fit’s $G0 a month, and you
could llyfe well on that. Are ydu strong
enough to do the work, and will you
do it well? Of"'eourse jf-you-don't do
it well you’ll simply be discharged, but
I should dislike to recommend an In
competent person.” , ,
“Put me on trial,” said the womuu
eagerly. “Indeed, I’ll do It well, and
Jamie Is old enough to help me; some.”
“Very well,” said Mrs. Stone. fCotpe
at 9 o’clock on Monday, and I’ll See
what can be done.”
a vi octuiai DCV.V11UO axici ucx viouut
had left Mrs. Stdne sat silent before
her desk. Then she whirled about in
her revolving chair to listen to „the,
nest tale of woe.
A month later one of her assistants
said to her:
“Pm ftfraia that woman for whom
we secured the jaintress’ place was an
impostor,; titter all.”
“What makes you think so?” asked
Mrs. Stone.
“Well, anyhow, I don’t think she’s sis
poor as Ellen West, who wanted it.” j
“She lxns five children to’’ support.”
returned Mrs. Stone. “Ellen has only
two, and she drinks.”
: “Yes,” said the assistant, “but t
saw her in the park yesterday, and
what do you think she had on?”
“A sealskin sack perhaps,” said Mrs.
Stone, not looking up from the figures
she was adding.
“So you knew?” gasped the other.
“YeS, I knew.” » **fii
The assistant was bursting with cu
.rlosity. She waited a moment.
“Perhaps she has seen better days,”
’she ventured.
”1 don’t think so,” said Mrs. Stone,
“though it was a sort of inheritance.”
“Oh!” said the assistant. "But it is
very good arid new. I thought per
haps It was electric, but it wasn’t. I
should think she might sell it and get
something for tlre childrea.”
“She might,” said Mrs. Stone, “but I
don’t think she will. Two, eight, nine
teen, twenty-four—we’ve taken in $240
in dues this month. That’s not bad.”
EXPENSIVE APARTMENTS.;
t • SI,, y TT-—. jsj c
Women Who Can’t Rent Them, but
Who Like to Inspect Them.
The superintendent of an expensive
apartment building was telling his
troubles, -;
“It isn’t showing apartments to those
wlib really want one that makes die
see the whole world through dark blue
glasses Just now,” said he. “It’s the
aggravation of the people who go about
Inspecting fine suits which they ten
net possibly pay fqr. t j
“You wouldn’t imagine how many
women have the mania unless you had
my job for awhile. Only yesterday, a
young maji'r|ed-woinan, gnd^her ^mother,
bath smartly gowned, askoato;’see one
of my six room suits. Which rents for
$200 a month, and there’s no kitchen
in the apartment either. We serve
meals from the basement at $15 per.
week for eseh person.
“Well, those women were here fully
an hour. They discussed the outlook
from tfee various windows and the size
and’ iilan of the rooms and every little
detail. They Wanted to know If the
front room Would be done- ofer in old
gold and brown to harmonize with a
certain set of furniture, and they
measured the windows to see if their
curtains would lit. , , *
“Where ‘baby’ was to sfedp nbihOTed
the young woman a whole heap. The .
nice., smmx rpqm. she wanted for u *
nursery had only portieres'Between It
and {lie drawing room and another
room opened into & court;.While a third
had a' draft blowing-thuongh it" They
discussfed this question for i Ionia :;ten
minutes, and when they: fli%y decid
ed that the kid should have A crib in
the same robin with 1W parents I be
gan tp feel that the apartment !wa$ oft
my hands. ;% u“ ? || .
.."Then they. Insisted; upgu seeing- the
chef- and went over- the subject of
uaeaWwith him for another flfteCh or
twenty minutes, making him give all
the menus served for a ‘week hack.
After-that they climbed to the top of
the house to sea the maids’ rooms- one
of which gees with every apartment.
“Finally;they stated that thg apart
ment wSs-'the most satisfactory ’ they
had seen and that they would come
back that evening with the yejung wo
man's husband- The® felt sure he
"would.dcOide to take ff. f |
“As WSCAme downstairs lista.ved be
hind tdjlocjt the apartment Which had
beeta under inspection, andj suppose
they thought I wasn’t going anjjr far
ther, for as T caught up With-them on
the first flight I overheard the young
woman saying:
“ “Wouldn’t It be swell to Uve like
that, mamma, with all those delicious
njegius every day? When Jack gets
rich we’li ao sb, ‘whA*t *Wd?’New
York Press.
