New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-08-24
Mrs Dayton and her niece parted at
last on very bad terms.

Mrs. Dayton and her niece parted st
last on very bad terms.
She had still $500, and she found
herself one morning in June in a New
York boarding house, asking her heart
twenty times an hour: g What shall
do with it" One morning she lifted a
the Wants. 9 This paragraph sup
piled her with the idea on which rest
81 a very prosperous future:
Wanted "A thoroughly artistic,
professional cook. A liberal salary
given and two assistants allowed.
Apply, etc.
Now, if there was one thing for which
Matte had natural aptitude, it was
the making of 9delicacies and the
beautiful arrangement OF a table.
'sWhy should not learn how to do
this thing?" she said. This very day
I Willsee about it. "
She had to take many a fruitless
walk and to bear a good deal of
impertinent curiosity before shefound
what she wanted-a professional cook
willing to impart the secrets OF his
art for an equivalent in cash. Even
then he could not take her until the
winter season made grand dinners IN
demand, and Matte was forced to
content herselfwith an engagement to
the great artist in the following
October.
Did she live on her small means in
the interval? She took a situation as
saleswoman in a retail store, and
Immediately began to sell trimmings
and !aces. Not unfrequently she had
to wait on ladies at whose houses she
had sited and, with whom she had
frequently spent the morning shopping
not eighteen months before. Some
ignored the fact and treated her as a
simple shop-girl, and some spoke to
her in that tone of constrained kind
ness still harder to bear. Others
whispered to their companions, as
they passed, her name and reyerses;
but, after all, she was amazed to find
how little these things hurt her.
Still she was honestly glad one
morning to receive a note from Prof.
DEUCE, requesting her services. In a
plain, neat dress, With her large apron
and linen sleeves in her satchel, she
entered at daylight one of the princi-
pal hotels and took her way resolutely
to the professors rooms. He set her
to work with very few words, ana
day after day, week after week, she
assisted him in the production of the
most wonderful dinners and suppers.
When the winter was over the pro-
lessor was, willing to endorse his pupil
in all things, and he offered to secure
her a position forthe summer months.
Matte very gratefully accepted the
offer, and in few days he was able to
make an engagement for her at a
fashionable summer hotel. She was
to have one thousand dollars for the
season and two assistants.
For fveyears Matte spent her sum.
mers at this hotel, and her winters
with some rich private family, making
about fifteen hundred dollars year,
and saving nearly every dollar OF it.
For she had in view the opening of a
large private hotel, and she knew that
In order to get the necessary funds
she must herself be willing to risk a
respectable sum.
4 So she was patient and Industrious,
and the day on which she was thirty
years Of age saw her the mistress OF a
magnifcently furnished mansion,
every room Of which had been taken
before it was opened For by this
time Mattie's skill was well known to
wealthy epicures, and it was con-
sidered something OF a privilege to sit
at table she provided for, or live in
q house she ordered.
But though obliged now to dress as
becomes the lady Of such a house, she
never relaxed her patient attentionto
the smallest detail Of her duty, and
her boarders knew that the elegantly
dressed woman who presided at the
table had been hours before in a linen
blouse and cap busy among her bright
saucepans for their benefit and el1ioy-
ment; and the knowledge detracted
nothing from the respect and admira-
ton every one delighted to give her.
In three years Matte. had paid off
the last cent Of the money she had
borrowed in order to start her enter
prise, and thenceforWard she began to
make money and save money for
Matte barley alone. She was still
handsome and mad many admirers,
but she was Of that order of women
who love once and no more, and MANY
things about Marks desertion Of
her had left a sting in herhear which
no future love could extract. She did
not know whether he remembered her
or not; she had heard while in
Europe, that he was going TO marry
an old companion of hers, but that
was twelve years ago, and twelve years
rolled between two lives generally eff
fectually separate them.
When she was thirty-six years Of
age and a rich woman she had an Of
Ter OF marriage. She refused it but
the circumstances set her thinking
about Mark in a, very persistent man.
ner. She determined to make some
cautious inquiries about him; she
was too old now for him to attribute
any silly motive to her. The resolu-
ton ran in her mind for two or three
days, and she determined one after
noon to go and find out an old friend
likely to efamiliarwith Mark s doings.
But while she was dressing an
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