New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-04
tons in fight mourning, after they had got

| the sign quite dry. "If had only been a
| boy.'
"Let-Jem-look after-the stock. Al
| though she wasn't boy. the last thing that
| her father had family said vas this. 1t had
seemed very unnatural to the relations IN
| light mourning. There was an uncle who
expected to he executor and first cousin
who talked OF buying out himself. But 1t
had seemed so natural to Jem that she had
| not even offered the store key to the uncle,
and whatever appropriate masculine dis
turbance of the ''estate" the law might re-
quire by and by, nobody was ready just
now to trouble little Jem. wishing that she
we're boy, in the old store, over the old
sign.
Somebody lid trouble Ger. ho&asee. 1t
| was a customer at the locked docs.
Come in" said Jem.
| II would if l could" sSab als customer
| through the keyhole.
40 forgot said denss sumPiss ana
| letting him in
where's your fqtheIe' ss.i ene Customer
| He was a loud man. .juse in from Che s,raires
| somewhere, and 'das Get beard, 8!aSught
! Jem.
| She though0it aloud in heR cGAfu sioa and
| the loud man, in his confusion: sat down Oil
| one end of the sign, and brought the other
| end and the truth together aSaas5s Iis lead
at once.
you don't say? Beg pardo4 Hhae did
| he die Of SO you're runnin' 6h@ business!
| Well. I've come to get a reclining chair to1
| my wife. One of these big ones, you know.
| that tip back into last week Expensive, |
| s'pcse. but you see she's got bad in the back,
| and norhin' IL do for her but one of them
| chairs. Thought I'd step in this mornin'
and price one. Up stairs9 III go right
along up. Beg pardon, I'm suseS Nhas did
rn11 ha JQ1 of
Jem did not say, Pa face sac 6i9 noe sag
| anything. Something in the fou3 r1an's long
| speech had set her thinking suddenly and
| sharply. She followed him quite up sta RS
| in silence before she remembered to tell him
| that they had not a reclining chair in the
store, but one shop-worn sample. By that
time she had thought hard. 'Runnin' The
business herself, was she!, Why Fer
moment she lost her breath. The nexto Be
fore she knew it, she had said 30 the lo-d
| man, 81 can get you such a chair 20 YOU
want, sir. in three days. We have 90 send
to Chicago for them and leans promise u
before that; but | can meet TS1S 0rdes in
three days'-had @ai1 it, AMI csSal4sss heip
it now
Prompt said tffse :ssS s.aa.
"Yes SIR
Il want plenty OF spriG:.. ecsn's, md
good. horse hair stutfing, ess q sssc.s STAT
won't get out of order.
Yes, sir" Jem tooa Jaws 20 % "a - IL
her note book fast
And some kline CO . ssses os,.g
this"
s'Yos SANS se:s Sc -~.s~. srreaesss,.
low"
an leavs shae 20 sss. =se...' sail sfe
customer. hesitatings ''.esao~~ sssas ssto
the note book
you'll get me o frse-cGass sS2ss. 81.
Won in three DAYS ur0mnt
Il certainly will, @ald ojens.
what will you Charge $50
'Forty dollars
Whew You mean to Cake 8o-ess.;as eat
of me, if you be girl That's too mech"
That's the price of your order, sire ssits
Jem. firmly, looking as much Ike business
as little red-haired, red-cLeeked, free lied
girl, with tears on her face could possibly
look. II can give you slaileg 50 g $h
interior stutfing for thirty
My wife's pretty considerable. &c .es
self unused the customer, ne elight
break through on thirty mightn she now?'
''I'm afraid she chi 5hts esd sTslse els
nlurely.
'rll 60 9orty ss So .sue2s, sslf 20 tie
thing ship -shape,' eoneluded the customer.
The first thing that Je-,l dids when the
customer had gone, was 90 go Ost and hang
up the sign again; and as she q 5ood on ths
ladder in the sun the sit Of the Mourning
letters revived and winkel at ler shrow live
with certain ralieveda cta1f0Staole ale
too, suc1 as people have ,ssS known to
wear IN q shange from Grape 20 lilac a
fine Easter Sunday. EN- could l,@ help
laughing 81 spite of Ger9e9E-theS wished
her father could see it-and so coied s gain.
However, she did not cry 800 b 7rd to pro
Gent her going to the express O. lice az o. 20
with the order for her reclinis cs.aa., end
by the time she had done tsIes and cot
home her eyes were 1uits d J sni sery
bright. She walked sight iBts nc ..ttiD ]
room and said Am go5Ss 90 .sosSS s:s :.s.s
business myself
9Jemima Jasper 80
II am going to carryea Ss '@s,ss5s a1e.
SELF repeated Jeno. Hes sno:..ss Tel!
through the mending be sec and e'sp'.e:
tipped over the stove
IL seemed to Jem as ife ssieGs sa!at efngGe
and simple remark of hers, al the erdSnar.
world fell through and tipped over. The !
relations in light mourning sEpOstuSatede
Everybody expostulateds aopss Erotee /
called, called again. sent messages we're
shocked, were sure it wouldn't do, entreateds
threatened, argued, urged-lnade hs mucA j!
commotlon over that one pooe sftls girls /
sending to Chicago tor tlae ''declininss 7
chair" as if she had proclaimed rssr againss
the Gar OF Russia on 6ee awe sseposss3s |
bility and resources.
They said, why didn't Sc ses s.ss SSe.e :
sell out the stock for her ?"
oWhy didn't she take in pain .es.fs.
"Or she could teach d tew !Sstse st.Ssl:ass !:
az home" !!
cit would be so mucf more sslf.t:e''
eyes and womanly and ISts -sssr, anil az :!
chat {:
s'she sFOs:: asres sllas.s "a ces.'. ..s !.
know
'Mr. :ssi~g sso.:o:.': !st:s's.,.s: sis: !.
So" 1
Ans 20 esssyn al. .!snas :.v .hs
couldn't wait till Po:ges was Sarge aa'sa:s
to support hers |!
But Jem showed firm fitele :r.sffs: sass |;
to everybody, and stoutly eaId. 81 undsS. /!
stand the furniture business. don't Gn. /!
derstand nything else. | am lust As %e.s
able to support the family as il %ereBs q !
girl, and mean to do ita % would please |!
father and 1t pleases anss Sssss sss :se &Jeas
and sees \
A storP is a stosy, howesee Sarge Sni I
this is the rest of it; and Go more wopdertuls
after ALL than truth is apt to be,
One day, some years after those ok stars
overhead the editor of the Jednesoay
Ecening Early Visitor, travelling at the
West with her friend the principal, stepped
in TO furniture store in brisk little town
in Illinois, to buy bracket
The ladies were waited upon by rather a
small boy, who stood behind the counter
with cerenonious and important air. He
looked SO small, SO ceremonlous, and SO i'm
portant that the ladies hesitated, and asked:
Can we see one of the firm!'
1.-The firm is busy in the counting room
just now said the boy grandly. "She has
let the clerk off on holiday, and l tend
after school to-day. What would you Skes !
ma'am!"
"Poppet," said bright, ousS voice as
this moment, 'just run over to the freight