The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1878-01-05
MISCELLANEOUS.
THAT CLERK.

worked my IngGIS u lllC DOllC III oOlllC
other way before l would have come to
that" said Lizzie Doyle, going to the
mirror and re-adjuSting a twenty-dollar
hat.
$50 would l. But, then, what could
she do p
cat least she might have made her
self little less public. If there's any
thing despise, it's these saleswomen J"
$50 do |. How much betterit would
have been to have gone into dress-mak
ing, or millinery, or something of that
sort. But to stand behind the counter
like man -
"Papa always did like those Stanleys,
said Lizzie Doyle, petulantly.
eyes, we all liked them well enough
until Mr.. Stanley failed, didn't we?"
''No, not l, for one. Laura was al
ways too independent in her notions.
Don't you remember how hard she stud
led at school 1t does seem as if she
foresaw her fathers failure.
81 wonder she didn't try for some
better position, then. She is surely ca
pable of being something better than a
shop-girl. y
"Oh, believe papa intends to pro-
mote her when Mr.. Jobley goes west.
She will then take Mr.. Jobley's place as
junior book-keeper. Think of that for
a woman -
"That would be better than selling
goods. l don'tsee how she can do that,
with her refined tastes. Why don't she
give lessons, l wonder? 1t might not
bring her in quite SO much money, but II
would be a deal nicer.
eyes; and then we could recognize
her," said Lizzie Doyle.
"That's what | was coming to, was
the quick reply of her companion, q
small, sallow-fa girl, elaborately trim
med and hounced. "How are we tc
treat her now? We have been great
friends, you knows, when she was in
our set, she added, seeing Lizzie's brow
darken.
"T'll tell you how l shall treat her,
responded Lizzie, slowly drawing on
pair ofperfumed, three button kid gloves
precisely as treat all of papa S clerks
And l should like to see any of them pre-
sumo -
ooh, but Laura won't tpresume ! Yol
needn't be afraid of that; she's toe
proud"
EShe must be-" said Lizzie, sneering
ly, "to take that position shall no
notice her."
''But how can you help it when you g
to the store or to church? She sits ST
near to us, you know"
"Of course she'll give up that pew
She can't afford that
"That's precisely what she does no
mean to do. l heard her say that th'
family must economic somewhere els
and keep the pew. Her mother is hare
of hearing, and could not enjoy the ser
vices further back. The children, too
must 90 to church. That is the las
thing, she said, one ought to give up
l heard her say this to your father las
Sunday"
Chow provoking ~ said Lizzie, i'm
patiently. ''She will always be in ou
faces. But shall have nothing to d
with her. l know what it's for, the art
full mink its to keep near us. Sh
knows she has got into papa's goo
graces and Al, too, admires her.
don't see what there is though, to &C
mire. She's very plain.
Laura is no beauty was the reply
"but don't think she's SO very plail
She certainly has lowered herself, thoug
by going into a store" " And thereul
on the two girls went out for their wall
1t was near twilight of that same da
when Laura Stanley walked briskly hon
and entered the neat two-story house
which her mother had lately remove
! such of her household effects as had bee
spared by the auctioneer.
''This is really pleasant, " she sal'
sinking into a chair that had been draw
near to the glowing CRATE. Il had
! idea, mother, that you would SO SOC
make the house 50 homelike and con
Portable"
+. care you very tired, my dear ?" ask(
her mother, a pretty, refined-looklr
; woman, as she helped her daughter
take off her cloak and hat.
"Rather, but like the business /; ar
. it's fine place for the study of chara
ter" she added, with curl of the Ii
which her mother noticed.
. II wish you had chosen somethir
/ else, my dear. l was sure your feelln
would be hurt"
sI don't wish so, said Laura, brisk
''There is nothing else would brought
salary at once, and as for my feeling
it don't hurt me a bit to find out Il
hollowness of society. | used to wo
, der what a certain person would be
me if were not the rich Harvey Sta
ley's daughter, and now l know. It's
l. knowledge worth gaining"
"Do you meet many persons you a
acquainted with?" asked her motht
: busying herself in getting the tea.
ooh yes; and it's amusing when tn
come upon me suddenly. 20 it, S
/. really lis this Miss Stanley? and SON
times up go the Eyeglasses. Then
feel-well, as if l should like to free
somebody, if l could. for a minut
Others see me and make believe they q
examining goods SO absorbed are tn
that they go clear by me without loc
ing up, and pass out in the same Wa
But such sights don't bother me- If
out how much true friendship is wort
and who, out of all the seeming ladie
have been in the habit of meeting, {
. true, and who are false"
""Then you meet some who are true
eyes, indeed Judge -Agates wi