Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1901-02-14
DORA's DECISION.
BY MAY Il. BROWN.

eyes," grumbled Henry Carter, cast
ing n whitening glance at his sister,
that's always the way with woman.
She starts out SO brash, sure that she
can do n mans work; but before long
she comes back, all broken down, to be
taken care of. told you how it woul,l
be when you went away.
Dora Carter, sitting pale and defect
cd in the wooden armchair, raised her
head and shot an indignant glance at
her brother.
But, Henry, you know it wasn't
clerking that broke me down. The doc
tor said that my health was under.
mined when | came back and helped
nurse your children through the scar
let fever, and that working right along
after that, without rest, was too much
for me. He says it is no wonder women
fail in business so often, since they al
ways go into it exhausted from doing
so many other kinds of work"
Stuff and nonsense!" snorted her
brother. Just Like woman to
blame some one else for her own fail.
ings! l helped nurse the children. too.
and my health wasn't undermined. But
no matter about your notions; you are
here, and have you to take care Of and
| only hope you will appreciate what it
is to be supported when times are as
hard as they are now. Aud you might
lend me IA hand with the milking. since
that doctor you're so fond of quoting
has ordered outdoor exercise for YOU
And Dora, mcckncss in her bearing
but rebellion in her heat, followed her
brother to the corral. where the COWS
were shut up for tn" night. She
thought of much that wos past. She re-
membcrcd that her brother had Sc
cured a deed of the large arm he owned
from their father on PREMISE that he
would always take care II Dora; and
how, after the old man had died, she had
endured life with him AMI his pale.
detected wife, US dependent upon him
financially as she was herself. 20 whom
never a penny went except grudgingly:
how she had worked at all kinds Of
work, indoors and ""'. q veritahe pau
per, and how, last, in an unusual
burst of indignation, through the in
fiucncc of the ci>crit minister, she had
secured Il positive as clerk in n large
dry goods store in Big BEND. the nearest
large town-a enI-Sizcd one. indeed,
for Kansas.
Her cagcrncss to master the details OF
the business. her Guickncss. and ABSORB
tion in her work, soon advanced her,
until she was in charge of two or three
departments. Then her brothers chill
drcn were attacked with scarlet fever
and he had summoned her back to the
farm To help. from which nursing she
had gone back TO work broken down in
health and n long illness cnsued, during
which her brother had not troubled
himself to inquire what might be her
chances for life When she was able TO
leave her room, the doctor issued an
cdict to the effect that she must not re-
turn TO the store for a year, and that at
least two-thirds of her waking time
should be spent outdoors.
SO, against her will, she had been
forced To 80 back to her brother, who
had ut once taken the opportunity to
use her case as proof of all his argu-
Lents against women in business life,
or. indeed, women who thought for
themselves at all.
But Dora, since her entry into the
business world. had learned to think
for herself. and was quite different
from the meek, cowed little drudge
that she had been. AS she seated her
self on the milking stool, and gave the
sleek COW n pat. there was n rebellion
in her blue eyes and a defiant curve
about her lips that said Henry Carriers
ascendancy was over, SO far as one wom-
an was concerned in it.
II can't stay here" she said to her,
self. Il know my own place in the
world too we'll to be the servant that
was once Between now and morning
I must think out another way of living
for the next year"
And while Dora was thinking OUT
her problem that night, her brother, in
the room below, gave his wife economi-
cal counsel.
Now that Dora's come back, Marcia.
| want her made use of, for we can't
have any ladyfied airs around here. She