The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-02-27
Too Ways.

hearing Of the suicide of young girl,
whom knew very we'll, in New York
city. How distinctly ! remember the
pretty face, Inc CHEEKY, obliging Sadie
Kingmsn, the janitor's daughter, Of the
house where I had apartments at one
time. Sadie seemed always happy, and
mornings We used to hear her singing as
she busted the halls and attended to
other duties about the house.
aUnreauited love0 was the cause as.
signed for her act: She was only sixteen,
romantic, impulsive and much given to
reading sensational novels.
"Pll make him sorry for deserting me, !"
she said to girl companion. And in a
6t of pigue and jealousy the misguided,
foolish girl took that fatal, irrevocable
step,-and all for a handsome, worth
less fellow, who would have made her
life unhappy.
Her death may possibly have caused
the man q passing regret, but neither he
nor any other man Is worth such a sac
ri6ce, and had she been less impulsiye
and rash she might have lived to realize
it.
How different was the course of anoth.
er young woman who, ten years ago,
thought her heart vas breaking because
q young man, for whom she had acquired
passing fancy, Tilted her.
Mary Rodgers lived with an uncle
and aunt who, beyond giving her a home,
took little interest in her. In the depths
other jealous misery, Mary went to the
river, half resolved to drown herself.
As she walked along she saw dime
lying in the road near the bridge. She
picked it up, and sat down on log and
pondered while.
"What will he care, if I do drown
myselff" she thought, bitterly. 81
won't do it. I'll make fortune out Of
that dime"
Filled with this resolve abe rose, went
to the village store, and boughta yard
ofcalico and spool of thread. In the
next two days she cut and made sun.
bonnet, which she sold for fifty cents.
She WAS by this time very glad to find
she was still alive. With the fifty cents
she bought more calico, which she made
into sunbonnets and aprons. In two
months she had earned, in this way, fif-
teen dollars.
There was an increasing demand
throughout the New Jersey town where
she lived for her sunbonnets and aprons.
Before the year was out she had made
nearly hundred dollars profit from her
work.
Mary then opened a store in the vill-
age, took an assistant, and in addition
to her bonnets and aprons began to make
calico wrappers and gowns. She worked
hard and prospered. She found little
time for indulgipg the sorrows which she
had once fancied so heavy.
Mary Rodgers employs now over
twenty girls in her sewing rooms. She
is healthy and happy, and is regarded in
the town where she lives as Every capa.
BILE" and prosperous woman. Now she
can smile at her old infatuation. She
has had the privilege, moreover, Of say
ing no TO the man who slighted her love
in the days of long ago.
II wonder that ever fancied him."
she said to the writer in confidence. ~
can now see how foolish Was in my
younger days Nothing could induce me
to marry man Of that stamp to-day. If
young girls would only wait little
when they think life uuendurable with
out some man with whom they fancy
themselves in love, they would find, as !
have done, that it was their greatest good
fortune to be thus deserted. Oh, / wish
could make girls understand and be-
ieve this"
The lesson taught by the above Incl
lents is too apparent to need comment
Youth. Companion,
- Educate your children. |