Connecticut western news., 1909-06-10

she had addressed thirty or forty mil lions that dellcatessen store would be q sure thing in case of the failure of the other.
 She applied at a certain street and number. So did about a hundred girls,
 fifty old women and number of boys. The man in the office called her my dear and gave her n thou sand envelopes to take home that he might see what sort of a hand she wrote. He also eXacted deposit of 50 cents for their return. He also 1 took her for a young widow and re-
 marked on his gladness to see her striving to make an honest living in- stead cf attending champagne suppers at shorty restaurants.
 | It took the ambitious young wife the 1 be; part of two days to address the thousand envelopes, and when she l carried them back the man smiled at i her in n brotherly way and handed ] over 20 cents and said:
 1 My dear, you have only to keep on ] ard you will wear diamonds" 1 But the striving wife didn't keep on. l She was so discouraged and indignant 1 that she left the place without de- manding her deposit Something else must be found. She saw the simple l life galloping down on her and shirt i less. collarless and sockless men pass 1 ing gents furnishing stores with looks 1 of contempt.
 That something else was an ad. X i bright young woman could make from 1 S3 to SC day by calling at such a street and number. Nobody would dare advertise such thing unless It were true. and young Mrs. Lee called i Lady Canvassers were wanted to sell! a newly invented corset. It was a l corset that would give any woman in the world a willowy form. It would . add to her height. straighten the stoop l in her shoulders. and she would seem to 1 float in the air as she walked. No canvasser had made less than $3 a ] day, and some were ashamed of them selves for making only SC.
 The caller allowed herself to be 1 talked into the canvassing business and took the rest of that day to study up on points and then made plunge. Not at home" met her at the door of 1 the first four houses she called at and mot at home" and "she wouldn't sec you if she were" at the next four. At the ninth house she was admit ted. and the lady offered her a job as parlor maid At the tenth the lady of the house was in bed with head 1 ache. but her husband wasn't. He asked the canvasser to sit down for a . heart to heart talk and give him her confidence. and when she refused he said that if she had to live on turnips and sleep in barrels all the rest of 1 her days it was her own fault Ina ended the corset business. When the sample was handed in the ] man in the office threw it down and muttercd something that sounded like 1 a swear word-two or three swear ! words connected by dashes.
 There was one more trial for the striving young wife. She advertised ! to give piano lessons at the homes of l pupils. She received postal cards to i call here and there, and she called, to be snubbed by servants, winked at by young men and to be told by the lady 1 of the house that her terms were at ! least one-half too high.
 In two cases she was offered castoff i dresses in exchange for instructions and called "a stuck up' thing when she refused. Mrs. Lee went home with tears in her eyes to find her husband there, two hours ahead of his usual time. The simple life had come! The shirtless, sockless era had dawned at last, and the furnishing store had smashed and there was no money to open the delicatessen!
 The poor bride leaned against her husbands shoulder and sobbed.
 There, there! What Is 1t, pet?" he cooed.
 "Oh, Arthur. IT was trying so hard to get money to meet this calamity, and-and haven't got cent!'
 Calamity? What calamity do you mean?"
 "Why, the smash! Miss Headly said it would come and that we must open a delicatessen store and sell sausages and saladsv'
 "Sausages and salads be hangedr' he ! SllOuleu. Olu IldluS De udllBeus NObc to smash be hanged! Why, sweet heart, business is so good that bought a piano today and have come home to see it delivered. Here it | comes now"
 And men are going to keep right on wearing shirts and things?"
 Lord, yes. The dollar shirt at 4S cents is as firmly fixed as the rock of l Gibraltar"
 i But Miss Headly-why-why"
 "Why did she talk that way? Oh, ] just because she had taken u contract to stuff and sew a thousand dolls for market and wanted an excuse if you 1 found it out"