The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-11

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and big eyes, who took his heart with her
when she went away in the train and left
the farmhouse desolate.
There was the lady. who sketched the
mill and the haunted house. How he
carried her easel and portfolio about, and
stood for lawmakers and bOatmpn, and all
sorts of picturesque characters! What
did he say to her to cause her TO tell him
that she would always be his friend, but
intended to devote herself to art, which
she shortly did-tO art i'll the shape of \
famous academician who made snug
fortune.
Then. after he went clerking in the city,
did he ever meet pretty girl at an even.
ing party without feeling sure that at
lust she had come. the one fair she beyond
all others? And the typewriter with the
golden hair? How dare they hint that she
dyed it? Why, he was sure at the time
that his heart was broke when she mar
ried the cashier. Still that was not the
worst. He could never forget how his
energetic grandmother came in from the
country to save him ''by the skin of his
teeth from marrying an elderly widow
who rouged and dressed principally in
woman he ever saw. He was just of ace
then. He is older now by three years,
and he understands himself, and his arm
is about his Angelina's waist. "Oh, no."
he repeats, "never before! You are the
only one l ever loved!'' And, after ali.
it is quite true, only she could not believe
it if he made candid confession of his OK
periences. A woman's idea of first love is
so very different from mans.
Little R>spect for Other Working Women.
The average working woman has little
respect for other working. women. This
doesn't mean that she is without respect
for herself, of a certain self-sAtisfied sort,
but it does mean that that self-resppct
is not broad enough to include Difference
for. fellow wage-earners, and it must log
ically follow that it is Il very low grade
of personal regard. The woman wage
but the one standard of gentleship-unlim-
tied leisure. According to her, the work
er, no matter how cretlitable or remunera-
tive her labor may be, is something just
a little to be ashamed of; quite beyond
the pale of all those who sit with folded
hands, no matter how much more content,
not to say comfortable, those hands might
be if engaged in good, honest employ
ment. 1t is but another phase of the
false and one time all-prevalent squcam>
ishness, as to confessing financial straits,
Il modern development of that spirit that
Il decade ago led an impoverished family
to declare that they only "took boarders
for company A successful woman
teacher, who did really love her work,
used to say that she was the only mem
Der of her, guild she ever met who taught
because she had to-al the rest did it
lust from pure love of it, A girl whose
family have recently lost everything dis.
posed of some embroidery at the WON.
ans exchange. When an intimate friend
congratulated her upon her good luck at
finding way of making money the girl,
out at elbows and patched as to shoes as
she was, FASTENED to say: ooh, it wasn't
the money. You see, / have SO much idle
time on my hands now and this embroi-
derry does entertain me So The new
phase of the old subject was brought the
other day to the notice of the head of an
exclusive and very prosperous girls school
i'll this city. The principal desired a stem
ographer in place of the amanuensis she
had heretofore had. Applicants one after
each one the principal found some cher
ished notion as to the good sense and sta
bility of the modern business woman laid
low. II it wasn't one thing. it was anoth-
en- but she at last realized that they were
al limbued with the I'm-as- good-as-yOu-ar
idea. The principal finally engaged a
young. girl who was less ''uppish'' than
quite SO obtrusive. At the. end Of one
week the girl resigned her place. why,
pay you So week more than you were
getting in your downtown Office said
the teacher. Yes" said the girl, but l
like it better in the office. It's more fun
for one thing, and then" she paused,
but the teacher begged her to continue.
'Well, it's this way" the girl finally
blurted out: you see. it's sort of more
honorable for me. 1t isn't because don't
like to be employed by lady, but you're
Il lady who works. Why, none of my
lady friends dc anything except one or
two. and they're employed by gentlemen i'll
offices: l don't know any type-ady who
is employed by a woman who works. and,
to tell the truth, we think it a little be-
meath us. I'm sorry" with Il commiserat
ing glance at the teacher. but the So a
week extra couldn't make up for it. you
know The teacher steadied her voice
for one question. Don't your men en-
ployers in the Offices work?'' she asked
'.Oh, YES, indeed was the answer, but
then they're men. It's different with
women" 1t may be of interest to add
that this teacher subsequently secured
man stenographer, he having no objec-
tons, he said, ito being employed by
woman who worked" With such stand
ards as those in the minds of the rank and
file the business woman has good many
lengths to go before she can hope to at
tain even a quota of that which her apos-
ties declare for Philadelphia Times.