The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-11-01

Yes, that's so, and we've got stock.
ed up with provisions and vegetables,
SO it wouldn't cost them hardly any
thing to live"
Why. they'd sell milk at the dpor,
as we do, and that would almost Keep
them supplied with things they'd have
to buy, that and the eggs"
so it would
A little later the sisters had gone
to the city. and the old couple from
the poor-farm We're comfortably set
tied, perfectly happy in their new
independence and quiet solitude.
AS for Ruth and Myra, the large
house of their dreams had been re-
duced to three pleasant rooms and a
tiny pantry.
It's really all we need said Myra.
Yes" acquiesced Ruth. I'VE can't
afford to keep servants, and we don't
want any more rooms to care for"
And | think we'd better pay one
months rent in advance" said Myra.
We won't have to worry about that
item, then"
mo" said Ruth, craftily, land it
will be easier to get out of paying the
next months rent"
They furnished their rooms daintily
and simply and made their first pay
ment on the things. The rooms were
not heated, but they had large kitch-
en- range which warmed them suffl-
GENTLY with the aid of little oil heat
er ia extreme weather. There being
a family in the tenement below, the
floors were not cold.
And now they began to take comfort
Every evening saw them at concert,
a lecture or the theatre. The enter
tanning had not begun as yet. Ruth
had bought chatting dish In anticipa-
ton of the little parties she would
give, but she had not used it except
to practice upon. Somehow they did
not seem to find congenial friends,
as they had expected.
The first month passed thus. When
the second had opened, with the funds
in the baking-powder box alarmingly
low, the sisters began to be trifle APP
prehensive. They took to going out
separately in the daytime.
One day Ruth came bounding up the
stairs and burst into the kitchen, her
face wreathed in smiles. Myra stood
there smiling also, and her face very
red from working over the hot stove.
I've got work" said Ruth joyous
ly.
so have L. said Myra.
I'm going to work in flower store.
| showed the man what I could do
this afternoon, and he praised my work
and told me to come tomorrow for
steady job"
And I'm going to cook for WON.
ans exchange" said Myra. 81 carried
some things there day before yester-
day, and they sent me an order today,
and they think I'll have all the work
want to do"
After this the sisters went out eve.
nings less than they had done. They
worked steadily and were contented.
Ruth made some friends at the flower
store, and the chatting dish came into
use at last.
AS they grew more accustomed to
their work they fell into the way Of
going to play in the middle Of the
week. a concert Saturday night and
to church on Sunday. The last of
February came, and for some little
time the sisters had been subject to
attacks of melancholy. One evening
they sat together resting after a hard
days work. Ruth was the first to
speak. Il don't know what's the mat
ter with you, but am as homesick as
DEATH
$50 am l." said Myra.
81 want to get back to the farm"
$50 do L"
81 don't think much of this way OF
living. I'd rather be poor but honest"
II know would" said Myra. Then,
with unusual vehemence, Il hate
debt"
80 do IT, said Ruth. and install
ments aren't the least bit Of fun"
mo, they are not"
81 wonder how much we owe? Let's
reckon it up and know the worst It's
hung over me like a nightmare all
winter"
ut has over me, too. If hadn't
been so busy I'd have gone crazy.
It's awful"
Il know it," said Ruth. 1T was
lucky we could get work. But I want
to get back home. Poverty and hon
esty for me, every time"
MY sentiments, too" said Myra.
''Well, let's take the fatal plunge.
HOW much do we owe? VIII we have
to mortgage the farm to pay it?"