The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-24
THE TWO SISTERS,

This is a Fable,-Once there were two
sisters They lived in Chicago. One was
a plain girl, but she had a good heart,
She was studious and took first hon
ors at the grammar school. She cared
more for the graces OF mind than she
did for mere outward show,
Her sister was frivolous girl. She
cared little for books, seeming TO find
more delight In bangs, shirt waists and
trlnkets OF gold and silver,
This sister was fair to look upon. In
fact It was frequently remarked that
she was a plppin. But, as we have said
before, she was short on mentality,
Now when II came for these two girls
TO seek employment (for they were not
richly endowed with this worlds goods)
the good girl found work In hat fac
tory. All she had to do was TO sew
bands in hats and she received for her
services the sum OF So per week.
The frivolous girl who had naught TO
commend her except beauty which fad
eth, became cashier In quick lunch
establishment, and the patronage In
creased largely. She eheWed gum anu
said "alnt," but she became popular
just the same,
The men who sat at the counter eat
ing sinkers and cocoanut pie remarked
one TO another that she was all right
The employees OF adjacent establish
ments came often to have bills changed
Customers fingered after having paid
their ohecks, and some spoke OF theatre
tickets and others spoke of bicycle
rides. And her picture was on many
button.
When she had seen the bunch she Sc
lected young man who owned a buck
ct shop. He was not as nice as the
young man she had read about in the
Bertha Clay novels, but he was making
the money.
So they were married and moved into
a fiat. She bought a dog ana thumD
ring and she had her hair bleached'
Also, when she went out OF town she
had her name in the papers, She forgot
the price at lemon merlngue and began
to be interested In Vogner's music.
Now when wheat went to a dollar her
husband didn't do thing She began to
feel that life wasn't worth living unless
there was champagne on the Ice,and the
smelling Of cooking made her faint.
Furthermore, she wished to move out
of the fiat because in fiat one cannot
be sure OF ones neighbOrs,
So she and her husband moved into a
house and engaged a coachman named
James, and she had her noseglasses
mounted on stick and couldn't see
where the working classes came in.
Likewise she began to read Richard
Harding Davis, and she assembled the
photographs of Herbert Kelley, Il. v.
| Sothern, Maurice Barrymore, James X
Hackett, Henry Miller, Robert Hilliard
| and John Drew, and after eight lessons
she could play "All Coons Look Alike
to Me-" on the grand piano.
Paving these accomplishments, she
began to wonder why the doors of So
clety did not open to her
She went to the theatre quite often,
and box was none Zoo good The hus-
band often Wore real dress suit. with
large single diamond on his shirt
front to show that he was prominent
citizen
She learned to talk gayly In the box
without being aware OF the fact that
other people were present, and often the
boys in the gallery would look down and
speak of her as the real thing,
Her husband paid $l2 for the cut and
had her picture put Into the Southwest
Division Society News, with line I'M
derneath, saying that she was society
leader. She believed 1t and sent copies
to her relatives In distant cities,
Although she was getting on, she was
not too proud to remember her kin I'M
der the circumstances.
Neither did she forget her sister at
the hat factory Her sister was a good
woman and was still getting her three
per week. The good sister gave up her
job at the hat factory and accepted a
position as cook for the frivolous sister.
She received Sc per week, which shows
that II one is honest and Industrious one
will surely succeed in time,
Moral-Never desplse the poor.-Chl-
Cago Record,