The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-11-01
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Auolld WaS~tt CFOpt Nftii, !" IlO Het'
taken prizes at the Mission Sun
day school, but she was Plain, much
Her features did not seem to know
the value of the term Work. Hel
clothes fit her intermittenly, as i
were. She is what would be calico
a lumpy dresser. But she has {
good Heart.
Luella found employment at a hal
factory. All she had to do was tc
put red Innings in hats for the coun
try trade; and every Saturday even
ing when work was called, on &C
count of darkness, the boss met her
as she went out and crowded three
dollars on her.
The other sister was different.
She began as Mary then changed
TO Marie and her finish was Mae.
From early youth she had lacked
industry and application.
She was short on intellect, but
long on shape.
The Vain Pleasure Of the World
attracted her. By skipping the
long words she could read how
Rupert Bainsford led Sibel Gray in
to the Conservatory and made love
that scorched the Begonias. Some
times she just ached to light out
with an opera company.
When she couldn't stand up Luella
for any more car fare she went out
looking for work and hoping she
would not find it, The sagacious
proprietor of lunch room employ
ed her as cashier. In a little while
she learned to count money and
could hold down her job.
Marie was strong card. The
male patrons of the establishment
heyered around the desk long after
paying their checks. Within a
month the receipts of the place had
doubled.
1t was often remarked that Marie
was a pippin. Her Date book had
TO be kept on the double entry sys-
TEN.
Although her grammar was sad,
it made no odds. Her picture was
ON many button.
A credit man from the wholesale
house across uhe street told her
that any time she wanted to see the
telegraph poles rush past she could
tear her trans portation out of his
book. But Marie turned him down
for bucket shop man who was not
Handsome but was awful generous.
They were married, and went to
live in fat with quarter-sawed
eheffonier and pink rugs. She was
Mae at this stage of the game.
Shortly after this wheat jumped
twenty-five points, and the husban
didn do a thing.
Mae bought thumb ring and a
pug dog, and began to speak of the
help as 1.-THE Maid.
Then she decided that she wanted
to live in house, because in a fiat
one could never be sure of ones
neighbors. Sc they moved into a
sarcophagus on the Boulevard, right
in between two old families who had
made their money after the fire, and
ice began to form on the hottest
days.
Mae bought an Automobile, and
and blew her allowance against
Beauty Doctors. The smell of cook
ing made her faint, and she conldn t
see where the working classes came
in at ALL
When she attended the theatre a
box was none too good. Husband
went along in evening clothes and a
yachting cap, and he had two large
diamonds in his shirt front.
Sometimes she went to a Vogner
Concert and sat through it, and she
wouldn't admit any more than the
Russell Brothers, as the Irish Cham
bermaids said, hit her just about
right.
She was determined to break in to
society if she had to use an axe.
At last she got there: but it cost
her many reed bird and several
gross of cold quartz.
In the hey-day OF Prosperity did
Mae forget Luella? No, indeed.
She took Luella away from the
Hat Factory where the Pay was So
a week, and gave her a position as
assistant cook at So.
Moral: Industry aud Presever-