The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-06
MIAAT HlLDA LARSON SAYS:

folks spen money they haven't got as
quick as they do what they haven't.
There isn't anythn' tn help man
along quicker nor better n a, mother
tho mos boys don't realize that till
they've tried everything else, seems if
There's no denyin' t a new dress is
good tonic for any woman an seems if
even man walks straighter if he's got
a new suit on. It's a medicine t YOU
never have any throuble gettin women to
take, an in the long run dunno as it
costs much more N drugs. Mr.. Lewises'
drug and doctor bill las month was over
$40, and he could have got Mrs. Lewis a
pretty good dress for that. An if she'd
had the dress she'd been outen bed to be
showin' it off an dndin' fault 'th the
dressmaker.
Seems if self respec' an clothes mus
be frs cousins. 1t isn't the money It
you spen' It makes you comfortable, but
It's the results you get. dunno as YOU
know Mrs. Howe. She don't dress as well
as her cook an alys think there's more
style at the back door n the front. It's
jes', the same over to Charleses. Mrs
Charles an her cook both bought coats
alike las winter an they wore .'en frs
the same afternoon. Title went out the
back door an Mrs. Charles the from, an
they met on the walk. I dunno which felt
the worse, but I do know t Title never
wore hers again. Titles a superior girl
an she says It she never likes things
after they get common Seems if I've
heard Mrs Charles say the same thing
But, as was tellin' you bout Mrs.
Howe. Her cook lef' las week an she
went down to the Intelligence office to
stay till she got another. There wasn't
much of an assortment an she couldn't
afford to be too particular, for she'd
rather ssalve n cook herself, she says,
an think myself she'd starve if she did
cook, for min once when she tried to
make puddin'. There isn't member
of the family but minis it, too. She finally
persuaded one girl to come that after
noon.
You think you can do the work, all
right says she, the las thing.
Sure says the girl, a-lookin' her
over. I can do your work
well, she went out that very after
noon, an Mrs. Howe met her at the door
herself she was that glad to see her
She took her in an showed her the house
an her room, an when she'd seen ev'ry-
thin the girl reached for her telescope
dunno as I'll be able to do the
work. says she to her, says she. When
I said I'd come, I'd never seen the house
an never s'posed from your clothes t
you lived in place like this. couldn't
think of stayin' in this house for Iess'n
five dollars week. says she.
AT the Intelligence office she'd prom
ised to come for four, but Mrs. Howe had
to pay her the extra dollar an the girls
never stopped lettin' her feel t she got
her under false pretenses. Mrs. Howe's
an apology evry time she goes into the
2 kitchen from her head to her feet, an
that girl IS an exclamation point.
ST dunno but what some folks are apt
to overvalue clothes an then again seems
if you can't overvalue 'em. You've got
to judge body in some way, an if
they're neat an stylish, you know at least
they've got a good dressmaker, an a
good dressmaker means either good judg-
ment or good luck, seems if
Mrs Elizabeth johnson of Courrland,
Kan. who located the spot on which the
American flag was first raised in Kansas
and caused monument to be erected
there to General Zebulon Pike, gave a
dinner recently to Miss Helen Kimber,
president of the Kansas Equal Suffrage
association. On this occasion Mrs John
son served tea which had been presented
to Admiral Dewey at Hongkone by the