The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-20
D0ILY'S REFERENCE.
A Case in Which Open Confession
Atoned for a Trifing Fault.
b. Helen Forrest Gsaues.

river OF gold across The dark, rich lines
of the Administer carpet as Dolly Damar
drew the decorated window shade.
sit seems pity to shut out Gods sun
shine," murmured she. s'but Mrs. Led
yard is always caitioning me about let
ting that carpet fade"
And she took a farewell glance out
over the snow enameled avenue, where
gayly capafisoned sleigils Skinned to
and fro and parties of promenaders oc-
cupied the pavements, before she re-
turned to her humdrum task Of busting
the drawing DOM
For Dolly Damar was '.only the up
stairs girl" III Mrs. Ledyard's ~pretentious
establishment. She was a farmers
daughter. who had received an educa-
ton above the average, and when old
Hiram Damar's death had broken up the
household, she had come to New York,
hoping to get a situation as nursery gov
erness or companion.
Disappointed in one after another of
her aspirations she was at last glad to
secure a place us parlor maid at Mrs.
Ledyard's, where she vas today, singing
as she busted bric-a-brac and polished
plate glass-for Dolly was a cheerful lit
tie maid, and had an inveterate habit of
making the best of things.
Crasll Dolly gave a start and turned
around.
Little Gladys, the youngesto of the Led
yard flock, in tampering with a china
shepherdess. had knocked it over. 1t lay
in a score of glittering fragments on the
floor.
.soh, Miss Gladys!' cried the upstairs
girl. "What have you doney'
dolly, don't give me away . stam-
mered the slangy daughter of the house.
s'Tell ma it was the cat.
but, Miss Gladys, that would be a
lie."
mo, it wouldn't. 1t would be nothing
on earth but a tiny little white fb. And
ma will be SO mad! Oh, Dolly, do let
her think it was pussyi'
81 couldn't, Miss Gladys. Please don't
ask me!' pleaded poor Dolly. 81 must
speak the truth ii she asks me-
Miss Gladys Ledyard swung, mutter-
Ing WV vi tLC AOOdls sI NMf
''Tll be even with her yetl' said she;
s'the mean, hateful tattle taller
And when Mrs. Ledyard came home
from her sleigh ride in the park, GLADYS
was beforehand with the s'mean, hate
full tattle tale" Mrs. Ledyard sent for
Dolly, taxed her with the misdemeanor
Of breaking a Dresden shepherdess worth
$50 and then endeayoring to conceal her
mishap, while Gladys stood grinning BY,
and then discharged her, first warning
her that it would be useless to expect q
reference from that number on Fifth
avenue.
So poor Dolly went back to the intelli
gence Office and sat there day after day,
until all her slender stock of patience,
and still more slender supply of money,
were exhausted. No one would engage
a girl without any reference from her
last place. Day by day her heart sank
lower and the future became darker, I'M
til her landlady's daughter, a stylish,
black eyed girl, who was lady's maid in
a handsome house OF Mallalicu square,
heard Of her dilemma.
No recommend, eils:' said she. .I
a set all that squared I'll give you
one!"
"You?"
Eyes, I. Why not? It's often done.
I know two or three girls who have
helped each other out of a tight place
ike that. Ny family is going in the
country for the Easter holidays. Send
your people to 6 Mallalieu square, Mrs.
Nyton's, and I'll be Mrs. Nyton, and
give you an A No. / characterl'
"But, Ellen. that would be untrue?:'
What would be untrue? That o
are honest, willing, capable:"
"No, but-you are not Mrs. Nyton!y
81 shan't say that / am. Imerely say
what I know to be the truth about you;
and if you succeed in getting q good
place, all that I ask is a dollar or W
out Of your first months wages. I'll be
a sort of masquerade"
And Ellen showed her broad white
teeth in a laugh.
"It's a pity If we poor girls can't out
wit the fine ladies now and then. Any
time after Monday Mrs. Nyton will be
at home,"
Dolly hesitated long, argued the point
feebly, but finally gave in, and little
Mrs. E~dgecuinbe, Of L.iIlieslcaf farm,
was more than delighted with the REF
crence' she obtained for her new maid
in the Mailalieu square mansion.
s.Such an elegant house!p said she,
''and a tea gown Of olive plush, such as
I never saw out Of a fashion plate. But
I was surprised to hear Mrs. Nyton speak
such dreadfully bad GRAMMAR
Probably said Mr.. Edgecumbe, ssshe
is endowed with more money than
brains."
..Most likely" said the little house
wife.
Dolly Damar was quite happy at Lii
iesleaf. 1t was, strictly speaking, a bee
farm, but they Kept cows and poultry as
we'll, and Dolly was delighted to get
back to the pleasant cares that had been
so familiar to her in the old life.
John Gardiner, Mrs. E~dgecumbe's
brother, the village pastor, boarded
there, and they soon discovered that
Dolly was no ordinary uneducated
Kitchen help"
The three children were blue eyed,
sunny tempered little cherubs, the wages
we're generous, and Dolly found herself
at last in possession Of q home.
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