Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-09-02
PENALTY OF CHARITAsLENESs.
After All Her Labor She Was snrbDed
for Her Pains.

After All Her Labor She Was snrbDed
for Her Pains.
Are you much interested in charita-
bic work?" asked the girl with the eye
glasses.
81 was" returned the girl in the fur
sspe I'm afraid that hereafter my
charity will begin at home and go no
further than next DOOR"
"Ah, you are wrong there" said the
girl with the eyeglasses. "0f course,
IL does discourage one TO have the waif
in whom she is interested pick her pock-
etand the destitute widow for whom she
has been prosecuting her friends crit
icise her taste in millinery; still, the
broad principles of humanity"
Look here" said the girl in the fur
cape, fiercely, "it is all very well for you
who are engaged to a young clergyman
to talk about the broad principles of hu-
manity-Im surprised that you don't
use capitals in speaking of them-but
for my part I'd like TO see little less
public charity in some people and lit
tie more common humanity"
"Oh, If you mean IN regard TO pauper-
izing people by"
81 mean nothing of the kind. Now,
there is Harold"
81 was wondering how soon Harold
was coming into the conversation, -
said the girl with the eyeglasses,
softly.
"It-it wasn't Harold, exactly" said
the girl in the fur cape; ''it was his
mother; she-is interested in charity,
you know"
"Of course, a woman with a nose like
that couldn't be expected to keep it out
of other peoples affairs"
81 think she has very nice nose my
self" said the girl in the fur cape, stiff
ly. Harold is thought TO look great
deal like her"
"0h, THAT is, by the way, 1 heard
that you bought a gold thimble the
ether day. Have you been doing much
sewing?"
"N-not very much. Oh, Elsie, IL you
will never, never tell as long as you live,
III tell you all about it. You see, Har-
old's mother has somehow gotten an
AONd tAAdt dAl a 4AlNOAOhH RCAcOAAs ah't
Inst week I-well, decided that IL
show her how practical am"
'Well, and did you?'
"It was this way-I was, of course,
anxious for her good opinion"
"M-yes; understand that she has a
good deal of money in her own right"
"She wants Harold TO marry a prac-
teal girl, so gave up curling my hair,
bought pair of boots mile too long
for me and asked everybody to call me
Margaret instead of Daisy"
"Yes, and what was the result?"
"She told Harold that she hoped she
was the one, not she. who was mistaken
in my character, and casually men
toned the fact that she thought every
young couple should own the house in
which they set up housekeeping"
"Oh, Dali mean Margaret, how per-
fectly lovely!"
t"Wasn't it? Then 1 heard that she
was interested in an orphans home, so
decided to become interested in II,
too. / told her that I would make lot
Ct garments for the orphans, and you
should have seen her surprise and pleas
urel"
$50 you really made garments for
the children? How did you go about
ftp"
81 made one. bought lot of stuff;
the people at the shop seemed TO think
ii rather unsuitable for the purpose,
but it was so pretty that couldn't re-
sist 1t. had expected mamma to help
ne, but she showed such a lack of in
terest in it that just shut myself up
alone and made little dress all by my
self"
You don't say 80, How long did it"
Take me? A week. When il was
finished l decided not to wait until the
others were made, but take il at once
TO Harold's mother. When l got there
/ was so proud and so excited that l
could hardly open the package and hold
up the dress for Inspection"
'And wasn't she surprised?"
'-She was. She-she held il in her
hands 4 long time, turning it this way
and that, then she asked me"
'Where you wanted TO live when you
we're married?"
''No; she-she asked me what on
earth it wasi"-Chicago Times-Herald.