Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-18

cated II all would make contribution of some
kind. a handsome one, If possible but at any rate,
something, no matter how SMALL either in cash or
in the goods they sell produce--Say Why
don't you go after the factories too? Might just
as we'll All the business houses. And then when
you've got the just about to suit you I'll look
it over And I'll take it down town and get it
printed SO that it will like real, typewriter
letter."
on do you think it would be proper for lady
to send out typewrtten letter?' misgave Mrs.
Galloway.
Certainly. Who do you think Is going to puz-
zIe out hand-written letter these days? You'll be
of the fairs being grand success, and
you won't have any work to do at all. Miss Cans
has a very nice angular handwriting and Ill have
her sign them. I'll get thousand struck on, and
she can fill in the addresses on the letters and the
envelopes when she's resting.
And will l have to think up all the names of
all the business houses and put them down on
piece OF paper for her to copy off Off" lamented
Mrs. Galloway. because there lots and lots
of them don't deal with, and I don't know them
at ALL"
mo, my dear. Miss Cans will attend to all that"
"And where will she get them?"
"Out of the business directory answered Mr..
Galloway in the tone of one who closes an incident.
Thank you much dear!" she gushed as she
took the hint and departed. you've removed
such burden from my mind How's your speech
coming on?'
Its coming on, coming on, but" She kissed
her hand to him she used to do twenty
years before when she looked the part better. Mr..
Charles Preston Galloway resumed his pacing.
In common with the head of every other busi-
ness house in town. one morning, two weeks later,
MIR. P Cloonan opened envelope or very thick,
handsome stock, and took out a letter on equally
thick handsome stock, typewriter on the first and
fourth pages, and signed "(Mrs.) eva Hustled Gal
loway' in angular handwriting, angular as to be
almost iIlegible He read it through twice, very
carefully and around his thin, straight smooth
lips played the faint spectral smile for
the same nnnitesimal part of second that had
played around Miss Cans lips, when after a long,
weary day. she had got far as half through the
C's in the business directory. Take 'em as they
come along" Mr.. Galloway had said to her. And
he was man who expected to be obeyed.
The Sunday-school cream tinted walls seemed
distressed by the rowdy reds and green's violets
and yelIows, blue and oranges of crepe paper.
which looped in screwy strips from chandeliers to
cornices and back again. wined and shirred about
the raw new timber of the booths and tables or
the money changers.
Such huddIement of things as there was in the
large space left vacant by the removal of the chairs
from which so many, many little legs dangled pa
tientIy-everything made or sold in the factories
or stores of "our beautiful little city" For the
responses to the high class letters of marque ut
tered by Mrs. Galloway had been profuse and varie
gated. And Eva Hustled Galloway was all in de-
lghtfu fiutter borrowing pencils here and there
and everywhere to sign the expressmans book for
new things that kept coming after another.
Not less enthusiastic was the Rev. Mr.. Simmons