The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-01-05

.aairs busted Toto found time to sit
Gown by the window. with Frank op-
| posite. and talk to him awhile of the
things that interested her most before
| it was time to begin the work of get
ting supper.
They We're trivial things. things of
! little import. for Toto had been too
busy since she could remember wash
! ing the dishes and cleaning the fat To
learn much of anything else She had
/ not reid books. as her sisters had done,
/ or gone deep into the history of things;
other than the making of beds and the
busting of the furniture. but her tail,
so interested IT, young man from tic
west that he begged permission to call
on the following afternoon and hcir.
with the dishes again
What sort of looking young MATS
was he?" asked Marion, the eldest sis
ter when the trio came home hungry
for the supper that Toto had cooke !
for them.
Tall, handsome. with blue eyes ans.
light hair" answered Toto. issuing
from the kitchen with the last steam
ing dish for the table
a fine young man." put in her fa-
Their between long and difficult breaths
His father made money in real estate
out there in the west. From what
can understand he is rich
The three girls exchanged glanccs
Then Marion got up and looked in the
glass.
I don't know she murmurCd
whether it is the best plan. after all
to study stenOgraphy and peg out ones
life in a dOwBtown office Toto stays
right here in the kitchen and catches
all the beaus"
''She has too many" muttered her
father. who wheezed in the parlor the
livelong day and consequently knew
There's that Jean Farley. an artist
with no prospects, 10 money He's
here all the time. He comes in so quiet
~ / believe he climbs up the fire es-
cape"
Marion was still absorbed in con
temptation of her features
I'm thirty-two," she remembered.
IF l get much older they'll be looking
out for a younger stenographer.
Sadie observed her critically.
you've lost one TOOTH" she COM
mented. IF you lose another I see
your finish.'
Marion turned sharply upon her
You are neither so beautiful" she
snapped. nor so young as you used to
be-
"Children.'' corrected the mother.
''Sit down and be quiet It's fortu-
nate thing you are away from home all
day or there d be no living with YOU"
For that matter" painted the IA
Their, the only one of you who is not
past her first youth is Toto. and she is
not beautiful"
The mother came to the rescue of her
Cinderella of the fiat
But she has winning ways" she as
serted, land that is half the battle
Toto tossed her a grateful glance as
she circled the table passing the cups
of tea.
81 suppose" bIVDded Marion. that
while we are working our finger ends
off pounding typewriters Toto will
snap up this prince from the west and
marry him."
ITS the way of all Cinderellas,' the
mother nodded, for in spite of the fact
that she owed her bread and butter to
the three stenographers it was the
youngest born who remained with her
close to the radiator that she loved
best of all
"And we three" finished Marion
moodily, will pound typewriters till
the end of time and die at the desk"
You can't all be dishwashers." rea-
soned the mother, ''or take the chunks
Of ice from the dumb waiter to put
them in the refrigerator or answer the
ring of the milkman when he comes
so much earlier in the morning than
you want him to come"
But one of us might stay at home
now and then on weeks leave. say,
and answer the doorbell when western