The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1905-04-20
Resurrection of
a FOrlOrn Hope
BY WILLIS scorr

CLARIsSA was poor. lone little
- seamstress. Her pale thin checks.
and STOPPING shoulders aud needle
prickcd fingers told OF long hours spent
over The sewing table. II was so hard to
make cyoa living Clarissa was all
alone ln ipe worlq
one bright ray OF hope there Vas
amidst an the gloom. II had dashed
into the mind Of Clarissa nearly = year
before at Easter time. and ever since
then 90 had rested on her like a CHEEKY
beacon light OF hope. She had chanced
ono day 20 pass the fancy goods ooun.
Ter % onc of thc big department
stores. and her quick. hungry eyes had
taken in az a glance the dainty dis
play of needlework. and she had noted
amonesf them the many Easter nov
eities which ingenuity and Geit fingers
had devised. She had not time 70 lin-
ger. She must hurry back TO her tasl,
pt plain sewing Tor idle moments meant
less bread. aud perhaps y shortage OF
rent money and an obdurate landiady
But she had iu that brief pause before
that counter caught a vision OF a new
future. She had never done anything
put plain seWIns. bUt tnere mad al
ways been the hungoring IN her soul fer
the pretty and dainty tribes. She want
ed 20 do something besides that monot-
onous plain stitching and hutton-holine
pni she usNef se1mnd 20 get the Tine
from the daily tasks. Now now
ever a new thought had come 10 her.
her inspiration, she called il and
day ana night since that last Easter
vision ar the fancy goods onunter II
had been nppesmost ia her mind
She would make something for the
next Easter. The boldness of the
Thought made her tremhle. Rut the
idea would not down. and though she
over and over again told herself that
was foolish, sle planned how she
would work it out But what could
she do -'N
one cay when passing the markets
she noticed sign: "Eggs. co cents
per dcz.' Eggs were rare luxury to
Ciarissa- The high price caught her
eye al once. Il made her easp 10
think of the price, and she wondered
who could be rich enough to afford
them. When she got back TO her hare
.eom The thought OF eggs at proh.b-
ltiVe prices kept floating before her
mind. At that moment a bit OF
yellow satin caught her eye lying on
the table and again EGGS, co cents
per doz. fioated before her vision.
Now there is nos much connection be-
tween eggs at 60 cents a dozen and |
bit Of yellow satin. but. without
showing Just why. Clarissa picked up
.ne bright bit Of cloth and as she held |
II an her hands it struck her that IL I
was the exact shade Of an eggs yolk. |
Her deft fingers moved by the
thought soon had a PUFFY round hail 1
male which for all tue world looked |
iike an eggs yolk Why not make /
Inc white Of the egg and have 4 fried /
egg she thought With a bit of cotton
aAo scrap OF chiffon she went at il
snd ere long had lying before her on \
the table a very fair representation
or an egg. AS she sat looking AZ IL
and wondering what good 1t was now
thet II was made, the thought sudden
" flashed over her that Easter and
eggs we're very appropriate. snd with
tne word Easter penciled over the
ees i would make very dainty nov
es''y Here then was the solution OF !
ner problem. Here was her oppor-
taaity.
zoe next few Gays founa clarissa
" fever OF nervoas anxiety. She
went hall hungry that she miSht I
navs ~ little thus savsd fux u -. 4