The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-01
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ADY MURIEL'S carriagel l
wonder what she be doing
~A~S in Arundale on a Sabbath

~ WOllucI Wildl sic Dt uOiiiS
~ in Arundale on a Sabbath
afternoon"
1.-THE carriagei Where, Granny? 7
like to see that grand carriage with its
big horses coming down the hill. 1t
bowls along so swift. It seems to give
me a Whit out of another life"
Another life, girl! Aren't you on
tent with this one?" and an old
who was seated in an armchair by the
window turned her keen eyes on her
granddaughter's face, as she stood gaz-
ing over some low cottages opposite the
one in which they were living. The
girl was looking hard at Lady Muriel
Alston's carriage, as it sped down the
hill from Dale House.
"Content?" she answered, half dream
lily, more bent on watching the carriage
than on her grandmother's words.
AYE, of course l am content, but at 10
one don't sit with folded hands. 1
suppose / shall live my life"
Live your life? Just stick to your
work in the factory, my lass, and hope
make you his wife, and leave living a
life to wenches who haven't had your
e~ddication and bringing up"
oiaAAS Il ldNbpiS WI W.
ny. that I never will. My mother. you've
often told me, married a; but I
shall miss seeing the carriage properly
if 1 don't run outside"
Follow your mother, girl, and you'll
come to destruction. Poor lass, If
you've got they grand ideas you'd best
die at once. Bless my heart, what have
1 striven and toiled for, to make you
/ a dacapf bo rd ,rorsiDS GIRL If Uon,re
going to flaunt after every gentleman
in the country. Not marry a factory
worker, indeed!'
And old Mrs. Urske grew quite ex.
cited as she chatted on.
1t was all lost on her granddaughter
however, who was standing by the doc
waiting for the Dale House carriag,
to pass.
Patty was right; she was only 10
and she had her life before her. NJ
one. ave purblind old Granny coul'
doubt it. as they looked into her bright
sunny face, with it's large blue eyes
fun lips, fair complexion and masses o
curling auburn hair, which would no
be depressed or Strengthened, notwith
standing the washing and dampinI
which. by Granny's orders, it daily re
ceived.
As Patty Urske-she was Away
called Patty Urske, because her grand
mothers name was Urske, and no on
in Arundale knew Patty's real name
as she stood by the door that Lowell,
July afternoon. in a tidy blue ginghan
frock, put on quite clean because i
was Sunday. the most blase of beauty
seekers must have been awakened a
the sight of her.
The prettiest girl in all the Dale, aye
that she was, though she herself wa
only just beginning to find it out, tn.
fact having been thrust on her. in thu
first instance, by the malice and un-
charitableness of the girls with whom
she came in contact.
The Urskes had only been in Arun-
dale about two years; they had com
from London. they said. but no ont
knew anything of their antecedents
neither the old woman nor Patty being
free of speech.
In education, appearance and gen
eral neatness they were considerably
above the rest of the Dale population
which was another reason for the evil
dent prejudice there was against them
''NVhy such moighty folks as they
/ SiiDAlNi I'M tiINll SElNtS " idNAOt y
work." was a question very frequently
asked by one neighbor of another.
Fol Patty Urske had peer now for
more than eighteen months past q
gold burnisher in Messrs. Schippheim's
large porcelain mandatory. The en-
ployment pleased her less than she
chose to acknowledge to her grand
mother, not so much on account of the
aA,.-I -~.-T- L.. I'll - -
the association with coarse, low natures
Jared somewhat on her more refined
temperament.
Patty, though her ruling passion was
ambition, was, however, too good a
girl to complain uselessly, She knew
that old Mrs. Urske could not keep
the pot boiling without her assistance,
and she contributed to it gladly, only
resolving to bide her time for finding a
more %congenial mode in which to make
money.
How that more congenial mode was
ever likely to be discovered in Arun-
dale neither she nor any one who knew
the place could have OWNED. II was
not a large place. numbering in all
about three thousand souls, and out of
the three thousand every available man,
| NOilldl anu emu was etllpiDgeu III lIlG
factory. There were only just enough
shops in the town to serve the n%ecessi-
ties of life; two doctors, a pastor, who,
unaccustomed to such sort of folk,
made but little way with his flock: a
board school and a Nonconformist min
lister. who carried off the larger por-
ton of the Established clergyman's
congregation. All the rest was factory
or belonging to the factory; ven the
hospital. which was the gem of Arun-
dale, had been built and endowed by
the firm, and was worked by a staff
Of nurses under the immediate super
vision of the elder partner.
How comes it, then, that so well APP
pointed an cquipage, bearing such an
unmistakable ~aristocratic brand as
Lady Muriel Alston's, should be seen
dashing through Arundale in that hot
July afternoon?
The Alstons are factory, too.
Though the firm goes by the name
of Sehippheim & Co.. Mr.. Herbert Al
ston is one of the partners, and so rich
a man that he did not find it difficult
some three years ago to obtain the