The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-21


fast in the morning, and make the beds
and sweep the floors, and wash the
dishes and skim the milk, and scour the
knives and gather the vegetables, and
pick more berries and do the ironing.
I'll be at home in time to get dinner,
and, as my wages are fifty dollars
month and found, as Dicks and PhiPs
used to be, you know, I'll dock myself
a couple o. dollars, which they wouldn't
have done. 1 want to be exceedingly
accommodating with you, for relations
sake"
"Why don't you go to the cellar for
buttermilk ? That's nothing but fun"
''Then suppose yOu try it," said Yours
Truly.
The men were eating like famished
hyenas, all but the newcomer, who
gazed, first upon the governor, and then
upon Yours Truly in genuine amaze
ment.
"Excuse me, miss" ne said, deferen-
TALLY, "but I'll be most happy to assist
you at any time. Will also aid your
father during your absence. You're too
small pattern of feminine fret-work
to endure half you're trying to do"
"Thank you for the compliment
Fret-1Vork is good" said Yours Truly.
Then the train was coming, and she
was compelled to leave the men to
enjoy their dinner, while she ran up
stairs and enrobed herself in ruffled
organdie, and buttoned boots and
gloves, her toilet, when topped by
sailor hat, having that rakish air about
it for which the girl of the period is es-
, pecially noted.
Mother had gone home with Dot and
9 the baby, and the protectors of women
9 at the farm were left in undisputed
. possession of both house and fields.
: Everywhere through the blessed
. country stretched away the broad fields,
mellowing under the first uninterrupted
sunshine of this much-clouded season.
- Yours Truly threw care to the winds.
70 In her pocket was the crisp roll of bills
; which she had earned, and was now
"A bent upon spending for summer cloth
# ing. The feeling of independence that
10 possessed her was worth kingdom.
- Thirty miles, and-PortIand What
=, sight The receded river as if tired
- of the mad havoc it had made in streets
10 and buildings, lay sleeping within its
~ banks as demurely as though it had
is never drowned out anybody. Carpen-
- ters, plumbers, painters, upholsterers,
;. street members, and draymen were
a busy on all sides. But what of al
- that? Yours Truly was bent on shop.
ping, and what cared she for the minol
% matters in drowned-out city? She
clasped her roll of bills-two hundred
and fifty dollars in gold-hacks, and al
her own-and went tripping along the
We streets. What beautiful goods adorned
oe the windows What marvels of mil
lu linery and mantua-making What {
I" display at Brigham's! What an exhi
bition at the White House
III If Yours Truly had gone a-shopping
eS under the old regime, when she coulC
lu and would have run the governors
tS "face" for whatever she wanted, two
u hundred and fifty dollars would hav,
- been nowhere. Now, the scene wa
at changed. She was to spend her owl
ne money, or keep it, as she liked, and tn
III temptation to make eXtravagant pur
us chases had lost it's charm. 1t was sur
Vi prising to reflect upon the very littl
III she really wanted. In her wardrobe a
ut home were old dresses as good as new
lie which only needed remodeling at
slight expense. So with hats an
le' sashes. Fresh muslin and lace
ng tempted her, and she purchased wha
gu she needed. Gloves and ties she chos
III in plenty. Shoes and hose were ais
'n' selected, and the whole bill fell short G
iiS twenty-five dollars.
he The clerks were disappointed, bu
OF. Yours Truly was jubilant. Tw
nu hundred and twenty-five dollars aheaC
leu and her summer wardrobe supplied
Ut Who would have thought it? Your
'uL Truly began to build air castles. vi!
no ions of home that might be all he
own some day, with just such lookin
os- husband to keep the grounds in orde
er- and call her pet names as her father
new foreman, rose up before her, an
ice the prospect was fascinating.
'ne With a firm step she went to Ladd
Ia Tilton's and deposited her cash, and sh
, intends to add thereto as her wages al
'ne paid till her old wardrobe is utilized.
urS Let fathers who complain of extravi
CANT daughters take heed. Let thel
Tue treat their daughters as fairly and sci
Ut sibly as they treat their sons, and man
au- other girls of the period will gladly 70
low in the wake of YOURS TRULY.
Ter,