The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-29
CHAPTER xlI,.-(continued).

ton had been made because 1T looked
more professionalism started life
In millinery establishment. Her
good looks. her graceful carriage. and
her figure had procured her advance
ment from the work room to the show
room. and when she was twenty-three
she was the principal model" in a
fashionable establishment in Regent
street.
1t was upon her graceful form that
the lovely mantles and Jackets and
sets Of furs were placed when ladies
wished to see how they would look"
They looked a great deal better on
Miss Barton than they did on many
of the ladies who paid for them. But
then all the ladies had not Miss Bar
toms figure and very few of them had
Miss Barton's pretty face.
In the worllroom Clara Barton had
made great friends with one of the
skilled hands, a Miss May Wilson, and
when Miss Wilson was promoted to
the show room 1t was she who sug-
gested that Clara Barton should be
brought down from the work room,
where she was not a first-class hand,
and employed i'm the show room,
where she would certainly be first
class figure
Clara was very grateful to May VIII
son for the promotion. 1t was much
nicer to walk about in beautifully
fitting silk gown and put on the latest
a r c.aCt In tn CHI kLov
off to the greatest advantage. 1t was
ever so much nicer than sitting in
stuffy work room and getting all over
little pieces of cotton, some of which
would stick on even after business
hours and betray the pretty girls &C.
cupation to every passing eye, no
matter whether said eye was under
tache
The stage "produber". Of the Pan
dora. coming to the Regent street es-
tabiishment to inquire about some ex-
pensive modern dresses for the chorus
was struck with Miss Barton's appear
nnce.
Discovering after a little converse
tion with her that she had good
voice. he suggested that she should
come on the following Monday to a
voice trial.
Clara Barton went, and the manager
agreeing. with the producer that she
was just cut out for a chorus girl, she
was engaged for the chorus at thirty
slillings a week. seven shows-extra
Tor Wednesday matinees-and COM
mencod her stage career.
She was a success with the stalls at
once, for she was bysall accounts the
most beautiful girl in a chorus re-
nowned for it's beauty.
Her portrait soon appeared in the
Illustrated papers and in the shop
windows, and she became "theNtalk of
the town" Beautiful presents were
left at the stage door and invitations
to supper were sent round between
acts.
Claire accepted sthe homage and the
and she went out to supper.
but she always took friend with her,
and the friend was generally Norah
She had not quite so many dia-
as some of the young ladies,
but she had all she wanted, and get
ting to know one or two stock ex-
admirers she had some good
tips" and presently found herself
able to take pretty furnished fiat In
Russell Mansions.
s She led the Bohemian life and liked
It, but no one had word to say
against her.
Claire. with all her gaiety and frank
Joy Of life. was not foolishly romantic.
She had seen something Of poverty In
Ter childhood and young girlhood, and
had made up her mind when the stage
ioor opened to her that 1t should lead
her to marriage which would make
her position safe when the days Of her
youth were over.
She didn't particularly want to
marry millionaire. But she thought
she should like title with good in-
come attached to II. She didn't build
upon becoming peeresa, but she
thought II she could be ''her ladyship"
that would be a very satisfactory end
to her stage career.
During the first i've months Of her
career az an actress she saw . good
deal OF May Wilson.
There was nothing Claire liked bet
ter than to be driven up to the Regent
street. establishment In motor. and
10 stroll Ia and make purchase and
chat with the girls who had known
her when she was one Of themselves.
Ia this way she had seen q good
deaf III May. and had asked her to
come to the theater. May had been
sonca. seen the performance. and ad-
mirad her friend. but she had ex-
planned to Claire that she liked to get
home after her work was done, and
chat, the theater was not an amuse.
ment which she cared to take up.
Sitting over her breakfast late the
morning after her parting with Capt.
Sinclair, the belle Of the Pandora re-
mSmbered that It was some time since
sehA had seen her TREND May.
She had seen stole which she very
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