Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27
THAT CLERK.

Only think of it !! A clerk! sales
woman 1t seems to me 1 d have worked
my fingers to the bone in some other way
before would have come to that, said
Lizzie Doyle, going to the mirror and re-
adjusting twenty dollar hat.
So would 1. But, then, what could she
do?
At least she might have made herself a
little less public.o If there's anything l de-
spise, it's these sales-women.
So do I. How much better it would have
been to have gone into dress-making or
millinery, or something of that sort. But
to stand behind the counter like a man!
Papa always did like those Stanley's,
said Lizzie Doyle, petulantly. =
Yes, we all liked them well enough un-
til Mr.. Stanley failed, didn't we?
No., not 1, for one. Laura was always
too Independent in her notions. Don't
you remember how hard she studied at
school? 1t does seem as it she foresaw
her fathers failure.
wonder she didn't try for some better
position then. She is surely capable OF be-
ing something better than shop-girl.
Oh, believe papa intends to promote
her when Mr.. Jobley goes west. She will
then take Mr.. Jobley's place as junior book
keeper. Think of that for woman!
That would be better than selling goods.
1 don't see how she can do that with he1
refined tastes. Why don't she give les
sons, I wonder? 1t might not bring her
in quite so much money, but it wonld be a
great deal nicer.
Yes; and then we would recognize her
said Lizzie Doyle.
That's what was coming to, was the
quick reply of her companion. small sal
low-faced girl deliberately trimmed and
flounced. How are we to treat her now
We have been great friends, you know,
that is, when she was in our set, she added
seeing Lizzie's brow darken.
I'll tell you how I shall treat her, respon-
ded Lizzie, slowly drawing on a pair Of
perfumed, three buttoned kid gloves; pre-
cisely as treat all of papa's clerks And
1 should like see any of them presume!
Oh, but Laura won't presume! You
needn't be afraid of that she's too proud
But how can you help 1t when you go te
the store or the church? She sits so neal
US. you know.
OF course she'll give up that pew. Sht
Mt afford that.
That's precisely what she does not NEAR
to do, 1 heard her say the family mus
! economic somewhere else and keep thu
pew. Her mother is hard Of hearing, ant
could not enjoy the services further back
The children, too, must go to church,
That is the last thing, she said, one ough
to give up. heard her say this to you
father last Sunday. -
How provoking said Lizze, impatient
ly. She will always be in our faces. Blu
shall have nothing to do with her.
know what it's for, the artful mink lit
to keep near us. She KNOWS she has go
into papa's good gracesI and AT, too. ad
mires her. I don't see what there is
though to admire. She's very plain.
Lanra is no beauty, was the reply; but
don't think she's so very plain. She Gel
tainly has lowered herself though, by &C
ing into a store And thereupon the tw
girls went out for walk,
| It 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 removed sue
Of her household effects as had been spare
'lby the auctioneer.