Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-25

you'll have to descend to ever so
much wire-pulling. Writers are so
jealous of one another, except the
really famous ones," suggested Clara.
The warrior bowed his crested head,
And tanned his heart Of fire,
said Lena. -' .s~
Just imagine our saucy Dora put
ting on the meek and lowly to some
car of an editor!'
''Or ozarina," said Dora.
meantime, what am to do?" cried
Lena, in mock distress. II have no
talent for literature, music or the stage.
Teaching I detest. Law and medicine
do not beckon with rosy and alluring
smiles. suppose I shall have to stay
at home and look after father and
mother, and grow to be a little quiet
old woman with shoulder-shawl, one
Of these days-the kind who sit in the
corners at tea-parties, and have to be
hunted up and talked to by the long
suffering hostess"
"Catch you sitting in corners! You're
q long way of from the shoulder-shawl
yet, my Lena" said Dora, giving her
an afectionate smile. She was very
proud of her sisters brightness and
quickness, even when the jokes were
aimed at herself.
"An idea has just occurred to me-"
said Lena, "but I shall not whisper
syllable of it to any body till see how
it is going to turn out. Meanwhile,
if this misguided mortal soil1 put
her head into a lions den (or an
EDITORS, which is the same thing),
she must go clothed and in her right
mind. Dora, why couldn't we take the
best of your brown tricot, rip and color
the disreputable street suit with
diamond dye exactly the shade of the
brown, trim with dash of brown
velvet, cover twenty-five cent bonnet
frame with the same, and send you
forth, conquering and to conquer?''
elena, you're the salvation of the
family" cried Dora, in ecstasy.
Clara hustled the arithmetics back
into the closet, and produced three
pairs of sharp scissors. In short
time the two suits were ripped, shaken
free of dust and rawlings, and the
diamond dye, purchased for ten cents
at the drug store around the corner,
was seething in an old tin pail on the
kitchen stove.
! "'I am dyeing, Egypt, dyeing,'"
sang Lena, as she fshed out the pieces
with an old broom-handle, rinsed them
through four or five waters, and hung
them out in the bright air without
wringing.
i If Howard Vandyne should come to
call, shall send him out here to shake
hands with you?" said Dora, saucily,
coming to the kitchen-door with her
half-made bonnet in her hand.
| "Considering that these lily fingers
are being darkened for your especial
benefit, young woman, it strikes me
that your jests are rather unseemly."
"You will be rid of me next Monday.
Clara, the dear soul, has run around to
see if little Miss Moss can come to-
morrow to cut and fit the transformed
goods. I have just had it out with
father and mother in the back parlor.
They were opposed to my going, OF
course, but I finally convinced them
that there was no choice. Father is
too old and disheartened for a new
start in business. If we all get situe-
tions, we can take care of ourselves
and the dear old folks, too.''
''That remains to be proved" said
Lena. 1T is very certain that we must
try it, whatever the ISSUE
! Monday morning Clara was installed
as assistant book-keeper in the estab.
lishment of the elder Vandyne at a
salary which seemed small when com.
pared with the lavish pin-money
!. formerly bestowed by an indulgent
' father. She accepted it gratefully,
however, for it meant independence
thing more to be desired than fine gold
| Dora left on an early train for Bos.
| ton, carrying in her hand-satchel five
dollars in money and about dozen
MSS, which had never yet been sub.
! mitted to the piercing glance of an
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} that could be desired.
"You needn't tell Beacon street
people how much it cost, Dora," said
Lena, dabbing at sisterly tear or two
with her handkerchief, as the hour Of
parting drew near.
> Il don't expect to meet many o.
them," was the reply. "Don't cry,
dearie, till you see whether make q
failure or not
/ Lena went home from the station
and, with the help of one small maid
(the other servants having been dis.
pensed with, set the house in order
made preparations for dinner, then
J procee ded to put in execution the plan
, which had been simmering. She made
, brief calls on six or eight of her lady
acquaintance, and when Clara came
home at noon, she found her sister
sorting various garments in all stages
of dissolution, from the merely faded
and stained to those that were ..rim.
racked and center-shook!'' e.