Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-05-24
PENALTY OF cHARITAeLENEss.

for Her Pains.
"Are you much interested in charita-
BILE work?" asked the girl with the eye
glasses.
81 was" returned the girl in the fur
cape. I'm afraid that hereafter my
charity will begin at home and go no
further than next door"
"Ah, you arc wrong there" said the
girl with the eyeglasses. "Of course,
it 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, fercely, cit is all very well for you
who are engaged to q young clergyman
to talk about the broad principles of hui
manity-Pm 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"
ooh, 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; cit was his
mother; she-is interested in charity.
you know"
"Of course, a woman with a nose like
that couldn't be expected 70 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.
"Oh, THAT is, by the way, heard
that you bought gold thimble the
ether day. Have you been doing much
eewing2 a"...
"N-not very much. Oh, Elsie. if you
will never, never tell as long as you live,
I'll tell you all about it. You see, Har.
ODDS mother has somehow gotten an
idea that am frivolous person, and
last week well, decided that I'll
show her how practical am"
"Well, and did your
ut was this way-I was, of course,
anxious for her good opinion"
"M-yes; understand that she has o
good deal of money in her own right"
"She wants Harold to marry prac-
teal girl, so gave up curling my hair.
bought pair of boots mile too long
for me and asked everybody to call me
'Margareet' instead of Daisy"
eyes, 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!"
wasn't it? Then I heard that she
was interested in an orphans home, 81
/ decided to become interested in il
too. I told her that would make lot
Ct garments for the orphans, and you
should have seen her surprise and pleas.
ure!" ...s.
$50 you really made garments for
the children? How did you go about
| it?"
II made one. bought a lot of stuff
the people at the shop seemed to think
| il rather unsuitable for the purpose
but it was so pretty that couldn't TO.
sist it. I had expected mamma to hcl-
RE, but she showed such lack Of in.
terest in it that just shut myself ur
alone and made little dress all by my
self"
"You don'tsay so! How long did it.
'"Take me? A week. When It was
finished decided not to wait until the
, others were made, but take it at once
to Harold's mother. When got ther'
I was so proud and go excited that
could hardly open the package and hole
up the dress for Inspection"
"And wasn't she surprised?"
"She was. She-she held it in he1
hands long time, turning it this waJ
and that, then she asked me-"
"Where you wanted to live when yol
we're married2"
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