The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-04-20
Resurrection OF
a FOrlOrn Hope
BY WILLIS SCOTT

(LARIsSA was a poor, lone little
~ seamstress Her pale. thin cheeks,
and STOPPING shoulders and needle
prickod fingers told OF long hours spent
over the sewing table Il was 50 hard TO
make even a living Clarlssa was all
alone In the world.
One bright ray OF hope there was
amidst all the gloom. Il had flashed
into the mind OF Clarissa nearly a year
before al Easter time. and ever since
then Il had rested on her like a CHEEKY
beacon light Of hope. she had CHANGED
one day TO pass the fancy goods coun-
ter in one OF the big department
stores, and her quick. hungry eyes had
taken IN al a glance the dainty dis
plsy OF needlework. and she had noted
amongst them the many Easter nov
elites which ingenuity aud def fingers
had devised She had not time - 81.
ger. She must hurry back to her task
OF plain sewing. for idle moments meant
less bread. and perhaps a shortage OF
rent money and an obduraie landlady.
But she had in that brief pause before
that counter caught a vision OF a new
future. She had never done anything
but plain sewing. but there had al
ways been the hungering In her soul for
the pretty and dainty tribes. She want
ed 10 do something besides that monot-
onous plain stitching and button-holing.
but she never seemed TO get the time
from the daily tasks. Now. how
ever, a new thought had come to her.
'her inspiration" she called II. and
day and night since that last Easter
vision at the fancy goods counter Il
had been uppermost in her mind.
She would make something for the
next Easter. The holiness OF the
thought made her tremble. But the
idea would not down. and though she
over and over again told herself that
II was foolish. she planned how she
would work Il out But what could
she do?
One day when passing the markets
she noticed a sign: Eggs. 60 cents
per doz." Eggs were a rare luxury to
Clarissa. The high price caught her
eve at once. IL made her gasp to
think OF the price, and she wondered
who could be rich enough to afford
them. When she got back TO her bare
room the thought OF eggs at prohib-
tive 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 not much connection be-
tween eggs at 60 cents a dozen and
a bit OF yellow satin. but, without
knowing just why, Clarissa picked up
the bright bit OF cloth and as she held
It in her hands It struck her that II
was the exact shade OF an eggs yolk.
Her deft fingers moved by the
thought soon had a puffy round ball
made which for all the world looked
like an eggs yollS. Why not make
the white of the egg and have a fried
egg. she thought. With bit Of cotton
and a scrap OF chiffsn she went at It
and ere long had lying before her on
the table a very fair representation
of an egg. AS she sat looking at II
and wondering what good II was now
that II was made the thought sudden
Iy flashed over her that Easter and
eggs were very appropriate. and with
the word Easter" penciled over the
egg At would make a very dainty nov
city. Here then was the solution of
her problem. Here was her oppor-
tunity.
The next few days found Ciarissa
in a fever OF nervous anxiety She
went half hungry that she might
have the little thus saved for the buy