The Bossier banner., 1892-09-01
EARNED HER CAR FARE.
How q Young Woman Had to Struggl
for Livelihood.

How q Young woman aad TO StFuSBls
for Livelihood.
A woman who is now one of the most
prominent artists in this city and was
lucky enough to get two of her pictures
accepted by the academy this year, the
other night told this story of how she
earned her first few pennies in this big
town: -. .-EHE.ze
''When came here five years ago, l
had just twenty-five dollars in my
pocket l got a room-or rather
cubby-hole next to the roof-in a board
ing house on Fourth avenue. 1t was
three weeks before 1 got anything to
do. Then place was offered me as
primary teacher in a private school
The salary, when you got it, was fair
enough in amount. But, unfortunate-
ly, you didn't get it until the end of the
month. s
''By this time there was such tre-
mendous hole in my twenty-five dollars
that I couldn't afford to move up town.
The expressage alone would have made
a bankrupt of me, for had absolutely
come to such a pass that hadn't
enough money to pay my ear fare to
the school and back. / explained the
situation to the landlady. She really
was dear old thing. She told me |
wasn't to worry about my board bill.
| She was perfectly willing to wait for
| her money until the end of the month.
''That was one weight off my mind,
OF course, but l had still to grapple
with the car-fare problem l was in a
dreadful pickle, really. For four days
| walked every inch of the way-four
| and one-fourth miles each journey. L
used to leave the house at seven in the
morning so as to reach the school
promptly at nine. -
Then 1 found that my French heels
were beginning to give out, So saw
that my efforts to save money by pedes--
trianism would only get me into deeper
water. Suddenly had an inspiration.
There were three old maiden sisters
who occupied the double-bedded room
on the second floor. They were with
out exception the fattest women | ever
saw. The most ethereal of the three
weighed three hundred if she weighed
pound They were all saleswomen
in one of the big Sixth avenue stores.
They used to scramble down to break
fast in the morning in fuster at the
Hast moment. # asFftsi
H'One of them confded to me that it
was their shoes which always. delayed
them They almost expired every
morning in their attempts to button
them. She told me in tone of the ut.
most resignation that eventually she
expected their shoes would be the death
of all three of them. Well, what do
you suppose did? | took that woman
aside and I said to her: Now look
here, I'll make a bargain~with you.
,, want to make a little extra money just
now for 1 am dreadfully hard up. L
you and your two sisters will each pay
me twenty cents week I'll come and
button your shoes for you every morn
ing"
'.The poor old things fairly jumped a
the offer They insisted on paying my
first weeks salary-sixty cents--in ad
: vance. It left me ten cents to the good
you see, because on Saturday there wa'
no school. After the first week they in
: sisted on raising my salary to an ever
Quarter from each. Well. | buttonet
| their shoes regularly for two months
Then had to resign my position, as
was moving to a boarding house up
: town.
! "When I bade them good-by the poo
= old things actually cried over ME ant
: presented me with the loveliest httl
silver button-hoolS you ever saw. | sen
them tickets for the private view tn
y other night They all came, fatte
;, than ever, and went into ecstacies owe
d nv pictures. The eldest one told me
e with tears in her eyes, that ever since
) left them they had been obliged t
" abandon button shoes. Now, my dear
. she said, with huge sigh of regret, w
. can wear nothing but elastic sides. y
:, n. Y. Sun.