Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-10-21
Number SKIS Sister.
Copyrighted by Kellogg Newspaper Co.
BY BERNARD BIGsBY.


was dependent-the event had brought
a sad reaction. One after another of
her dodgers left her, and none came to
fill their places. There was a gloom
over the house she found it impossible
to dispel. It was the old story-money
borrowed at a ruinous interest on her
furniture, a foreclosed mortgage, and
she found herself adrift and homeless,
with four children dependent on her for
their daily bread. Not for one moment
did she pause to consider that one of
these little ones had no claim on her eff
forts. Wanda Arlington was as dear to
her as one of her own loved ones, and
she would have scorned the thought of
shifting from her shoulders the respon-
sibility of her care.
Nor was she one to sit down with
folded hands and bewail her misfortune.
For ten weary years she toiled as a
dressmaker, working by the day for
rich ladies, who, charmed by her gentle
manners and exquisite taste, paid her
higher wages than usually fall to the
lot of women SO unhappily circum-
stanced. Thus with heroic effort she
was enabled to clothe, feed and educate
her children till they in turn grew in
stature and became breadwinners.
Then glimpse of sunshine glowed
through the darkened clouds.
1t was at the close of the terrible war
of the rebellion. Society was revolu-
tionized. Thousands had sunk in pow
erty; hundreds had grown suddenly
| rich. Prominent among the latter was
| a Young married woman named Alice
Potter, of Michigan, who CHANGED to be
visiting New York, and, having engaged
Mrs. Evesham's services, had in her
own generous, impulsive way formed a
deep affection for the gentle seamstress.
envy dear creature" she said one day
to the widow, when they had succeeded
in designing a costume more than usu.
ally attractive, "why don't you make a
strike for something better? Come tc
Michigan and start store. I'll help
you"
The suggestion took the widows
breath. Michigan! Even in the COS
Michigan seemed an Ultima Thule to a
! New Yorker.
cit would cost so much, Mrs. Potter,
she sighed. "And the risk would be sc
great"
Gas for the expense of getting
there" the impetuous young matror
declared, 81 will see to that. You see
dear, my cousin Jack is auditor of rail
road, and he shall get you all passes, Oh
I'll know the reason why"
But have so little in hand to star
WITH" the widow pleaded.
''All the better Tor you; you will have
the less to lose"
''But, if failed
Failed! Fiddlededee! You shan
fail Come with me to Glastonbury
What, never heard of Glastonbury
Well, the ignorance of you Knicker
bockers is something shameful"
els it village in Michigan"
"a village! Bless your innocence
Glastonbury is big, thriving lunbel
city on the banks of the loveliest rive
you ever saw. We haven't many brown
stone fronts there, confess, but Weir
new and rich, and our women know
stylish dress when they see it, as
hope some day you will learn to you
profit"
"But the store?"
"Oh, We'll fix that. My husband ism
half bad fellow when you know him
and he'll pull you through. You cal
get few things ON credit if you are to-
proud to borrow. 1t is all as easy a
preaching-say, may speak to him thi
very afternoon"
"If you will, but -"
"But me no butts, my dear. I'm will
to carry out my projects"