The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-04-14

temporarily at work few doors farther
up the street The old shop was of
frame. The splendid new one, which is
in process of building on the old site, is
of brick.
Mollie is pretty young woman of 25.
She has big blue eyes, fair hair, and
round, plump figure. Although but lit
tie older tnan her sisters, she is prac-
tically a mother to them. She manages
the house as well as the shop. She was
appointed execrutrix of her mothers
estate. About year ago she married
Thomas Bambrick, a policeman. Short
lY after her mothers death relatives
advised her to give up the shop and
move farther up town in more stylish
neghborhood. The reason they gave
was that the giris would get better tus.
bands.
Her very sensible answer wa: "My
sisters are good girls and they don't
need to live in stylish neighborhooo
to get husbands. The right kind of men
would go after them If they lived in
bandbox. The others can stay away.
The three unmarried girls are Kath-
crime, Margaret and Sarah, but they are
nicknamed by their friends Katie, Mag
gle and Sadie.
Katie is next to Mollie. She is
pleasant-faced girl of about 80. Her &C
complishments are by no means con.
fined to the grossly useful. And while
she can superintend the shoeing of
horse, beat up the lightest biscuits or
iron shirt bosom until it rivals the
product of John Chinaman, she can
also play the piano and speak German.
Maggie comes next to Katie. She is
decidedly good looking girl of FL She,
too, can be ornamental as well as use
full. She sings in a very good, clear
mezzo soprano voice. Besides, she is
the dressmaker for the family. And
that is saying good deal, for the Doris
girls are the arbiters of fashion for that
part of the town.
Sadie is the youngest, the brightest,
the prettiest and, as her sisters say af-
fectionatelv, 1.-The least useful of the
lot" She is Is years of age, but looks
younger. She is very light of foot in
dance. There is always a rivalry among
her numerous beaus to secure her as a
partner at party.
During the recent fire Sadie was
ready to risk her life to save that of a
| pet dog. All of her sisters had been
safely carried over an improvised
bridge to place out of danger, when
Saoie's turn came. She would not
bulge without her dog Prince, and
some precious minutes were lost calling
for it. It didn't come, and finally a
neighbor dragged Miss Sadie away by
main force, She would have waited
| long had she tarried for Prince. He
was afterward found in the shop, burned
to death
The little frame house in which the
four girls live is surprise to those who
enter it. To enter 1t one must pass
through the blacksmith shop. The stairs
from the bright, sunny kitchen lead into
the parlor. 1t is large, decidedly well
! furnished room and not at all the sort
of parlor one would expect to find in
the rear of blacksmith shop. At one
end stands an excellent piano piled up
with music. On the walls hang some
very pretty pictures. Everywhere is
the evidence of prosperity, thanks to
the little blacksmith shop Just outside
1t was an ambition of John Doris and
his wife to educate their daughters be-
yond their station. II is rare instance
in which doing so has not succeeded in
making the children look down upon
their parents. But these girls speak of
their parents with almost feeling of
reverent gratitude. They fully realize
that the many economies which their
parents exercised have made them com
paratively independent And the man
who marries one of them will not only
get mighty good wife, but one with a
very comforts BILE dot besides.
They own the little house and they
will probably live in it until they all
marry and increasing families make it
too small Some day, when the husband
of one of the girls insists upon his wife
having her share it will probably be
sold Then James D oris' name, which
still hangs over the door, will be taken
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