The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13
STORIES OF THE TOWN.

Not long ago there lived on the North Side
young man who clerked i'm a Washington
street store for a salary not to exceed $40
a week, and had dreams about being rich"
How can get lots of money, and get it
in hurry and get it without working for
it?' was the central theme of his dreams
The young man hailed from a county seat
town not many miles north of Indianap polls
When he first came to Indianapolis, and
that was more than two years ago. he was
well satisfied with salary of $40 a week
or less He thought then that almost any
kind of a job in the 'Hoosier capital
would be better than living in q small
town.
But after he had lived IN Indianapolis
awhile, about year. say, the young mans
ideas began to undergo a change. All in a
few months he got dissatisfied with his
SO a week. because, forsooth, he found
that he could do as many things to have
a good time and could not buy the most ex-
pensive clothes made by the most expensive
taiors. and do a good many other things
that are in easy reach of the man who
owned the big store where he worked. He
got what some people call "blase.'
But all this time he wasn't becoming any
more valuable to his employer and he con-
tinued to draw an envelope containing but
so week Then he got really Disguised
with the cruel rate tndt dllOWeO MIN, WIFI
so many ambitions. to remain poor, while
a countless number of less worthy young
men had all the money they wanted. plenty
of time to play golf and go canoeing, call
on young ladies. etc, etc, etc.
All this time the young man got fewer
and fewer invitations to the dancing parties
and other functions of the crowds of young
men and women he had been introduced TO
by the young man in whose home he lived.
People-old or young-don't like to hear
their friends always complaining about
their "lot in life" The young man with viii,
this by his mother or father or some "older
friend. or he might have read 1t In some
book of "terse truths, but he forgot to
found that he wasn't wanted very badly at
the dancing parties and that the young men
and women of his crowd didn't seem to be
very enthusiastic about having him with
them.
Instead of taking a sensible view of the
situation and finding out why they didn't
care for his society any more. he made up
his mind that he didn't care whether he
went "any place or not"
Then he took to sitting about the home
where he lived all the time when he was
not working, and "brooding."
Then a young woman from an Ohio town,
who had rich father, came to Indian
apolis. Her hostess invited the young man
of many dreams and a salary of $40 a week
to call on her guest from Ohio. Incident
ally he found out that the young woman
from Ohio had a father who had large
amount of money.
Forgetting that he was dissatisfied with
life' the young man went to call on the
young woman from Ohio and made a fairly
good impression. At least, he told the peo-
pie where he lived that he made a good i'm
preston. Ard he went to see her again i'm
q few days. and then again. And at length
he was looked as being ''in favor" with the
young woman from Ohio.
Not many months after she went back to
Ohio the young man of many dreams and
a salary of SO week announced to the
people where he lived that he was going
over land see Grace" He went, and came
back wearing a satisfied smile.
"Guess I'll be Grace's fathers private