The Florida agriculturist., 1907-08-21
THE SPIRIT OF REVOLT.

farm"
eyes, that's so, and we've got stocked
up with provisions and vegetables, so
it wouldn't cost them hardly anything
to live"
''Why, they'd sell mix at the door,
as we do, and that would almost keep
them supplied with things they'd have
to buy, that and the eggs"
$50 it would"
A little later the sisters had gone to
the city, and the old couple from the
poor-farm were comfortably settled, per-
fectly happy in their new independence
and quiet solitude.
AS for Ruth and Myra, the large house
of their dreams had been reduced to
three pleasant rooms and tiny pantry.
cts really all we need" said Myra.
eyes," acquiesced Ruth. "We can't
afford to keep servants, and we don't
want any more rooms to care off,
"And I think we'd better pay one
months rent in advance" said Myra.
"We won't have to worry about that
item, then"
NO." said Ruth, craftily, "and 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 kitchen
range which warmed them sufficiently
with the aid of little oil heater in
extreme weather. There being family
in the tenement below, the floors were
not cold.
And now they began to take comfort
Every evening saw them at a concert,
a lecture or the theater The entertain
ing had not begun as yet. Ruth had
bought chatting dish in anticipation
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 ex-
pected.
The first month passed thus. When
the second had opened, with the funds
in The baking powder box a1armingly
low, the sisters began to be trife ap-
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.
"Fve got work." said Ruth joyously
$50 have l." said Myra.
''Im going to work in flower store
[ showed the man what | 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 woman's
exchange" said Myra. "I carried some
things there day before yesterday, and
they sent me an order today, and they
think TIL have all the work [ want to
do
After this the sisters went out even
ings 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 Oh Sunday. The last of February
came, and for some little time the sis
ters had been subject to attacks of
melancholy. One evening they sat to-
gether resting after a hard days work.
Ruth was the first to speak. Il don't
know what's the matter with you, but
[ am as homesick as DEATH"
$50 am [" said Myra.
II want to get back to the farm"
$50 do l."
Il don't think much of this way of
living. I'd rather BE poor but honest"
"I know I would" said Mvra. Then.