Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-08

Browni Ichabodi-7 hat is the femi-
nine of Ichabod, b. the way, Tired
nolke? But, seriou y, it's too bad.
Susan may have be Il tickle, but she
was always ariatocrg ic. And now her
daughter is shop-E Il. You and 1 are
avengedI'
"You are just az ridiculous, Mes
years ago." said the general, tran
gully. You declgim for the sake
Of hearing your own voice. Besides,
what you say is un-American. Grace
Parsloe, as was s. ing, got place as
shop-girl in one of the great New York
stores. don't say she mightn't have
done worse: what 1 say is, doubt
| whether she could have done better.
That house-I know one of its found
ers, and l know what I am talking
about-is like an enormous family,
where children are born, year after
year, grow up, and take their places in
life according to their quality and
merit. What 1 mean is, that the
boy who drives a wagon for
them to-day, at thro9 dollars q week,
may control one OF their chief depart
ments, or even become partner, be-
fore they're done with him; and, mutatis
matandis, the same with the girls.
When these girls marry, it's apt to bo
into higher rank of life than they
were born in; and that fact, l take it,
is good indication that their shop-girl
experience has been an education and
an improvement. They are given work
to do, suited to heir capacity, be it
i small or great; they are in the way OF
! learning something of the great eco
nomic laws; they learn self-restraint,
courtesy, and"
"And human nature! Yes, poor
things: they see the American buying
woman, and that is a discipline moro
trying than any-of you West-Pointers
know aboUt Oh, yes, see your point.
II the fathers of the big family are
fathers, and the children are children
to them. All the same, fancy the
young ladies, when they marry into
the higher social circles, as you say
they do, don't, as a rule, make their
sliop-girl days a tupic of conversation
ats o'clock teas, or put 'Ex-shop-girl
to So-and-so' at the bottom of their
visiting-cards."
81 believe, after all, you're snob,
Meschines," said the General, ,pensively.
But, as was about to say, when you
interrupted me ten minutes ago, Grace
Parsloe is coming on here to make us
visit. She fell i'll, and her employers,
after doing what could be done for her
In the way of medical attendance, made
up their minds to give her change of
climate. Now, you know, as she had
originally gone to them with @ letter
from me, and as live out here, on the
| borders of the Southern desert, in q
climate that has no equal, they natur-
ally thought of writing to me about it.
And Of course I said I'd be delighted to
have her here, for a month, or wear,
or whatever time it may be, She will
be pleasure to me, and friend for
Miriam, and she may find husband
somewhere up or down the coast, who
will give her fortune, and think all
the better of her because she, like him,
had the ability and the pluck to make
her own way in the world"
"Humph! When do you expect her?"
"She may turn up any day. She is
coming round by way of the Isthmus.
From what hear, she is really very
! fine, clever girl. She held response
bic position in the shop, and
"Wcll, let Us sink the shop, and get
back to the rational and instructive
| conversation that we-or, to be more
accurate, that l was engaged in when
this depression began. presume you
are aware that all the indications are
| lacustrine?''
Hereupon, a hammock, suspended
near the takers, and filled with what
appeared to be a bundle of lace and
silken shawls, became agitated, and
developed ut one end a slender
arched foot in an open-work