Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-07-06
One Woman who used her
Brains

now, and had to do it there might be
some excuse for it; but for Lu Haines
to do 1t, 1 think it, perfectly mon
strous.'
And 1 too. Just think Of her being
shut up there all day, talking to those
people about the price OF goods. 1t is
perfectly disgraceful for a man who is
worth as much as her father IS to let
her DO IT.
L don't know why said another, if
it was his son, people would think 1t
all right, and l don't sec that it is not
all right. What if he should die sud-
denly, and have no one to settle up his
afa;rs?'
She couldn't do it lfhe did; she don't
how. and there ia no sign of his dying.
l say 1t shame. / wonder what Jack
will think Of ii; he is very fastidieus ?
She won't like it much if she loses Jack
by it,
Perhaps you wouldn't object any
longer, Nell, if you thought that would
be the end OF it, said another I
That is mean,' SAID the young lady
addressed as Nell,
Yes, SAID the quiet one, don't talk
so, Susie. But really think it is q
wise thing. this going into a store. II
she couldn't settle all the affairs she
will soon be able to do it, for her father
is teaching her all about it. l was in
there the other day, and she is so en-
thusastic over it. She says she can
see some use 10 this, and that ne one
has to drive her to look over accounts
as they did 10 practice music. We all
know how she disliked that, and 1, fer
one, cannot see the sense IN driving a
girl 10 do what she dislikes all one
thing, as If every girl were alike in her
tastes-and not letting her do what she
loves to do. Of course 1 hope she will
net lose her father. but no one can tell.
am sure of one thing; she loves him
more than she ever did before, now
she is brought so closely in sympathy
with him and bis Interests; and you
never saw a man prouder Of his daugh-
ter than he is.'
We'll, said the first speaker. I dom t
care if he is; wouldn't do such thing
for my father, I think it mot our
place. When I'm so poor can't help,
I'll think Of it.
That was year before the hard times
came or. Things changed then. Men
went down whom no one ever dreamed
would fall, and among the rest the
father of the girl who thought 1t dis
graceful to have a knowledge of busi-
ness. She had known nothing Of her
fathers trouble and anxiety. He never
told her; why should he? She never
cared to know, and spent money as
freely as ever, as far as she could get
It.
The end came, her father fillei, aud,
she not knowing how 10 do anything,
drifted into the drudgery Of teaching,
on a smaller amount than she had often
spent before in an, afternoons shopping
that business being one concerning
which people have the false idea il
needs no special training to follow.
LUIS father was in danger, loo, and
burdened with care, The little daugh-
tar as he still insisted in calling her.
was his right-hand man. Hour after
hour she worked for and with him.
Many night at midnight found them
still at work.
IF We can only get over this one
affair said he to her one night when
it was almost over, If we oan stand
tue storm little longer we shall come
out all right. You have been such
comfort to me through it all, and such
help! If 1 do not fail like the rest,
you have done great deal to save me.
believe you have spent less in this
year than some of your friends have 10
a week. 1t shall be made up to you
when we are over this, my little daugh
ter then he kissed her, with his eyes
full Of tears. But that night was the
last they ever talked together.
The next morning, as he drove TO
distant part Of the city on business, his
horse SHE'D at something, throwing
him out suddenly into the hard street.
will not tell you Of the days OF suffer-
ing, during which he was never once
conscious, or the sad end Of 1t all.
LUIS heart was about broken; but she
knew she could not give up now, and
the day after. with an ache she could
hardly bear she went on with business.
And they came out safe, but crippled.
Il never saw such woman said the
head clerk. She has the busines: head
her father had, but she is just as much |
a woman and lady as any one can be.
| don't wonder that young man is proud
of her. He never says anything, OF
course, but you can see it In bis eyes
when he runs IN here moment some
times, l don't blame him. There
ISN'T a man in the store can do enough
for her. Things would have gone all
to pieces here when her father died. If
IL hadn't been for her, for no one cared
"a abe did, and no one else knew about
his affairs. l mover used 10 believe in
wemen going ahead SO, bat lm over
that. There isn'ta man in the storr,
could manage 1t as well as she does.'
That was bis opinion. 1t wouldn't
do IN Give that OF Jack, for il would