Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-06-08


I'm not so sure about that" said
LottIe. However, here are you and
l, two heroines. so to speak. And now.
will you have the goodness to tell me
how we're to keep out of the poor
house,"
Embroidery and fine needlework."
suggested Florence, family.
THE market for that sort of thing Is
giutted," said LOttie.
Miss Purdy keeps a boarding
house"
Exactly, but Miss Purdy is 80. and
knows every recipe in the cookery book
by heart"
Couldn't we write for the papers,
hazarded Florence.
My dear child" said Lottie, plying
ly, for every newspaper column there
are AT least twenty trained and prac-
ticed aspirants"
We'll, then, perhaps you've some
more practical idea of your own" said
Florence, still offended.
Yes, 1 have. l was thinking Of
little school for children. Miss Purdy
knows of three pupils We might get
Canada. Mrs. Morrison says she will
send Eddie and Paul-and 1 think, per-
haps, old Mrs. Enderly would use her
influence to obtain few for us. There
are those four roomy chambers up
stairs we might furnish in cottage sets
and China mating quite inexpensively.
And, If We could secure even eight pu-
pills, have calculated that we might
make a living profit, at least
Florence drew up her slight, prettily
nodded fgure-her lips quivered.
20, Lottie!' she walled out, "all this
drudgery, this toll, this begging and
pleading, thereby to keep ourselves
alive, Is life worth living on these
termsf''
And LOttie-patient, CHEEKY, much en-
during Lottie-had to set herself dill
gently to work, for the fourteenth or
fifteenth time that day, to comfort
Florence; and, figuratively speaking,
"bolster her up to the point of forti.
tude required.
So Charlotte Champney opened her
little school, with an unpretentious tin
sign on the door, and three chubby
checked lads of 10 and and respect
lively as a beginning Others speedily
came In, and Lottie, counting up her
gains at the end of the first quarter, felt
inwardly exultant-
"AlI our expenses paid and $40 over, "
she cried. II knew we should sue.
ceedr'
Ten dollars scornfully repeated
Florence. "A pretty sort of success
that Is! Why, l used to give $40 for 8
pair of boots when poor, dear papa was
allver'
Things are quite different now" sait
LOttie And, you must remember, thi.
is only our first experiment"
But you needn't think 1 mean It
drudge on like this forever" said Flor
ence.
How are you going TO help your
self?" said Lottie, laughing. and Flor
ence only answered by a smiling, com
pIacent look toward the glass.
Il don't wish TO appear vain." sale
she. demurely, but Miss Purdy think
that handsome widower at her house Il
decidedly taken with me-"
What, Col. MedwayT'
"Yes, Col. Medway."
Lottie Champney's heart gave
quick, panied throb. Was 1t possible,
she asked herself, that she was seltisl
and ldlotic enough to be Jealous. and o
her. own pet sister, tooT' Col. Medwa,
had never been more than ordinaril
civil 10 her; what was she. poor, little
plain-faced school teacher, that sh,
should dare TO cast her aspiring eye:
toward him.
Thus chiding herself, she summoned
a sort Of spasmodic smile to her lips
But you don't like children, dear
and Miss Purdy says he has family.
III send them to your school" sale
Florence. saucily, 'and get rid of EN-
In that way. He's rich, Lottie. and he
handsome: and the long and short of !
is that | mean TO be Mrs. Col. Med
way"
But. Florence darling" pleade,
Lottie. do you-do you love him!
"Love?" echoed Florence, with ga!
's- of her flax-gold hair; that ism
part cf the bargain nowadays. by an!
means"
.Aud of she tripped. singing hlith'
strain as she went. while Lottie sa
-.,,a to commune with herself an.
question her shrinking heart.
u ui,St not 20 so often to Mis-
Purdy'S." she told herself. Its Yer!
Kind of her to send for me. but | mus
,ashiou some excuse. I dare say Col
oncI Mcaway will not miss me If Flor
enc,. is there"
And She cried little, quietly to her
self.
.Yns" said Florence Champney, "Iv