Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-10-16
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By pa1sornnA LEONARD

By PRISCILLA LEONARD
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I'd like to see the people who
write about How to Live on Ten Dol.
lars Week try to do 1t themselves. 7.
said Olive, hopelessly. Its all very
well, Eta, to put down the items In
nice neat list, beginning with Board
and lodging, six. dollars That read
4 beautifully up in Vermont, where half
the price would do If you helped round
the house. But down here in New
York the littlest hall bedroom with
your board is eight dollars, and prices
going up all the time. Just look at
how we We're crowded in here, two Of
us, In room only meant for one and
y q half, and paying seven dollars and
q half apiece for it,
s.; And glad enough to get It at that. !"
said her roommate from Indiana. "My.
but fdn't ! wear out pair of shoes
loo /9r that fifty cents OF! II
Jafs Hers hadn't told you about
( this You hadn't let me In on 1t, I'd
be climbing stairs still and meeting
new sorts OF disagreeable landladies
IN. each street-but all alike on the
prices. Father sends me fifty dollars
month. He's an angel, and it's more
than he really can spare, and SO try
to cut down on it. But forty-five is
my lowest record SO far. If 1t wasn't
that an art student is expected to look
shabby ia be lost, and as it is, / really
am shabbfer than the rules.
Nonsense. Lucky you'll, said Olive
Fifty dollars a month is riches. Forty
is destitution. Janet helped me out
because she knew. She tried it her.
self, and she was, like me, lone or
phan-only she had an uncle who once
sent her ten dollars, and haven't any
body nearer than Cousin Eliza. who
hasn't ten dollars to send. and
( wouldn't send 1t If she had. I've rent.
Led the old house at home, and Il can't
go back to it. I've come here to study
and I'm going to do 1t. have
Nnough to pay for the art course and
c:say board. But unless you can inform
me Eta, how to do without shoes and
winter hat, not to mention car fare.
shall soon be sitting on the street
corner with a box of pencils in one
hand, and the other held out for nick.
els. The higher life is being forced
upon me-a dollar a week higher than
my present possibilities. That is what
\ makes me so low in my mind 2"
Janet Sanders painted things to
sell, didn't she?" said Eta. Il heard
she made quite a good deal on orders
for menu cards and fayors."
Janet can do anything" returned
Olive, uncheered. She's won the
scholarship, and goes OF to Europe
this autumn. She is a foreordained
success. Where five hundred girls are
trying to make both ends meet by
painting menu cards and favors. only
Janet can get orders. I've been to
every store and every exchange in
New Cork, and nobody orders any.
thing Of me. haven't the touch for
painting dainty trifes-I can see that
myself"
No, you get broad effects, and have
to work that way" said Eta .But
there must be an opening somewhere,
Olive.
Eta Laurence" replied her room.
mate. = used to think the world was
like q seive-nll openings. But for the
last six weeks 1t has been q high board
fence. even tried the want, adyar.
tisements yesterday. went to a place
where they advertised for girls to ad.
dress wrappers, and to another where
they wanted q girl to amuse children.
3 AT the wrapper place they wanted no
one who could not work from seven in
the morning to six In the evening. AT
the other place the woman wanted to
call me by my first name, and put a
cap and apron on me, and have me
eat with the colored housemaid and
butler and my hours were from six
tn the morning to Eve in the after
noon. Besides, You ought to have
heard the children scream when we
I went into the nursery to look at them!
II ! must go hatless and shoeless. 1
must. But don't ask me to answer
any more want advertisements"
There must be some kind OF an
opportunity waiting for us some
where" persisted Eta, "There al.
ways is one, you know, II we search
hard enough"
In Indiana and Vermont, yes,D said
Olive. Last summer / made cake and
ice;cream for the women in the village
who took in summer boarders. had
all l could do. But imagine making
cake In this room, J. looking round the
tiny. dingy little third-floor back"
"and especially imagine. my dear Eta,
selling ice-cream! I'd have to have
Aokep.pokey glasses, handcart and
. license. New York seems to me a
solid wall of difficulty. II you'll only
show me an opening big enough to
stick my finger in, Eta, Pll take it
before you can say Jack Robinson
7 passed a store to-day" said Eta,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. where was IT,?
Somewhere on the avenue, between
Forty-second Street and here, for j
walked up that way. It had sign
out, Girl wanted in the evenings It
was sort Of candy and ice-cream
place-your talking about ice-cream
made me think of It. Wait--it was
next to that big fruit-store, Cellini's.
II you really want
Il do" said Olive. I'll go thers
this minute. Don't you want a walk,