The Sunday globe., 1901-06-16
CHAPTER VI
A MoTuEB's SACRIFICE

CHAPTER VI.
A MoTuERS SACRIFICE
And the next day it rained. There
|are only two seasons i'm Washington
the rainy season and the rainy sea.
/ son.
As we were making our toilet, Mrs.
Edenworth says You come with me
and I'll show you a good place to get
your meals. It's up at the Vienna.
I've been eating there, off and on, for
years
AS soon as we had reached the din.
ing-rOOm, at the corner of Ninth and
+, ! thought I would discover the ma.
ture of the literary work upon which
she was engag aged.
! began. The Centers Of geogra-
ply, population, politics, and itera.
ture are located in Indiana. Hailing
from the Hoosier State are Charles
Major with his when Knighthood
was in Flewor,' Booth Harrington.
The Gentleman from Indiana; Mau.
rice Thompson, Alice of Old Vincen-
mes. General Lew Wallace Ben Hur;
and James Whitcomb Riley with his
myriad of ballads There is George
W. Peck, c. B. Lewis George AIDE,
Eugene Field James Lane Allen, all
like young Lochinvar-came out Of
the West. Gwendolin Overton. the
latest find in the world Of letters with
heroines breathing an atmosphere
redolent of the wildwood, born only
of the prairie, is also from the West.
/ In fact. the leading light of literature
gY tIa T~,g+ Nr.v1- Twain i- O Vast.
ern product.
/ But it was evidently loves labor
lost She would be obliged to rent
a typewriter soon; and / told her, i'm
/ the event Of my employment not ne.
cessitating the use of mine, | would
send after it. and she was welcome.
/ On the way back to the house Mrs
/ Edenworth said: "I must get a Globe
Ida and Olga will get the Post and
/ Times. That's about the extent Of our
Sunday reading
Despite the steady downpour, every
body with the exception of myself at
tended service-Mrs. Edenworth at the
Calvary Baptist, the girls at a church
I'm the neighborhood. ! studied the
want columns. / found one reading
T as I remember something like this.
/ "Wanted-A lady who is a good con
+ yersatiOnalist; one acquainted in de
d partments preferred; employment
/ pleasant and remunerative. Address
/ Box l52, care POST In my reply
/ informed the party he could on in
/ teryiew judge of my conversational
. ability
After we had lunched and finished
reading the papers. Olga said. Nov
/ don't go and buy a lot Of papers each
, day. Go i'm the Vienna or the
Vatoldi. or where you take your
meals. and tell the waiter to find you
copy of the Post that is not work
ing For business wants that is the
paper you are looking for. The Stal
runs more to household affairs the
Times to the "Biddy' department; anC
IL fancy YOU are not looking for tha
|iust yet Last night I was telling yOl
Ia girl could not be too careful in hel
associations. Alma says, Tell m'
where you eat, and TIL tell you wh'
you are
Where does Alma take her meals %
[ asked
She fools 'em. She has hers sen
iin"
Nov ? man Is far more careful il
this direction than a woman, / knew
la girl
"You going to tell any more Of you
lEed-nght stories?' said Ida. 81 mad,
two attempts last night to head yol
off,"
"OnIy members Of our swn sex ar
present. Beside. there are numbs
OF questions it Us folly to dodge or ia
boo, and association is one Of them
This is merely a little pleasantly Il
illustrate the point ! was making
While the 3S-cent dude may invite
girl ~ have a drink as long as hi
money lasts. the gentleman with dis
'nity and position to maiAtain will no
be seen With a woman going In an
Iout OF a restaurant with a ginrll
attachment. A lady who travele
back and forward bstween Baltlmor
land this city knew thaS fact and too
advantage Of IT.. She came over on
afternoon on the G:3O AHer an e.
change Of a dummy question or tw
with a gentleman she met In th
depot here, she said 81 am just d.
ing for a mint julep."
"You can't play any game too strOn
to suit me; but really I can not affor
to be seen going in and out OF tha
place over there
This was just the party she was lool
ing for she thought; but he told he
he was just on his way to the Lafa,
ptte. and would try and see her som
other evening That night about 1873
she was hurrying down Indiana ave-
nue. 10 catch the 1901 A gentlema
caught mp with her and said "If yo
don't walk so fast TIl go with you
guess we are both going to the depot
She looked at him under the electri
light, and began I'm just dying fo
a mint iulep,' when he laughed anC
interrupted her. "Ant you dead yet