Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-06-25
NOVEL TYfORABAzAAR An ABLE ASSISTANT,
1ysADELAlDE RUTH HILL


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a sunny morning in June a girl OF
twenty stood in the grounds of coun-.
try place, diagram in one hand. i
pencil in the other. a. man carryingI
artists sketching materials was conf
Ing down the road. He stopped andI
leaned against the stone wall.
rs. this the Harrington place p bel
asked the girl.
ut Isl
The old maids who owned it, IL
hear, are dead. and it has passed into|
the hands of a new owner. They sayl
he's globe trotter and there's no more
chance Of the place being kept up than
before
ION the contrary, l am employed to
lay out the grounds in an entirely new
scheme" IS.
.You?''
"You seem surprised to see a girl do
ing such work. I have just been grad
uated in the department Of gardening
at - college,"
"H'm!. Where are your assistants?
You can't do the job alone"
Cant get any"
::'How would dog he asked after
| pause.
"You seem to be an artist, not a tiller
Of the SOIL
Artists can't live on their artistic
productions: they must stop once in
awhile to earn some money by work.
"You couldn't earn much here-only
50 a day and found"
II could run ahead SIP week. III
60 to work right of if you like"
The man was engaged, the head
gardener warning him that If she
caught him dreaming over the sur
rounding scenery, which was very fne,.
she would dock" his wages He must
also agree to give her a weeks notice
before quitting. All this being ar
ranged. she set him to work digging
up the sod for new arrangement of
the walks. 1t was hard work, and he
didn't get on very we'll. At evening
she told him he'd better give it up.
II tell you what I'll d." he said.
'You pay me what you are allowed
for assistants. With that I'll agree to
employ two assistants and boss them
That'll give you all your time for plan
| ming"
He succeeded in talking her into the
scheme, though she couldn't see where
he would get help or make anything
for himself He went to the village
that evening and the next morning
| had two lusty fellows at work. He sat
in the grounds sketching, giving his
men occasional instructions.
II declare said the head gardener,
IF that isn't just like an artist. No.
body can ever tell how they live
Well, If he doesn't make any money
it's no concern Of mine. He's getting
the work DONE" ,y-e,szss.e,sgs.s>..
/ Finding too much time fore her plan
ming, she strolled out and took look
at the picture he was making, The
outline of a landscape was sketched
on the canvas.
II would like to know" she said,
chow you expect to gain any money
by paying your wages to Others"
II thought that was the only way
to make getting other people
to do the hard work and doing the
skilled part yourself"
"But you're not even doing the skill
ed part"
"You're doing that
"While you are
Wasting my time. admit it. This
picture will never be good for any
thing. Let's go in and try the piano.
He seemed to have his own way
with her. She followed him into the
house. and, sitting before the piano.
he struck several chords.
"This won't d." he said snappishly.
1.-THE thing can't have been tuned in
years. These people can't expect yor
to get on with tin pan. What's T.,
agents nance"
Before she could stop him he had
rung up the agent on the telephone,
and she was Mortified to hear him say:
Miss Kissock, the head gardener.
wants to know what you mean by
leaving the piano in such condition?
She says If you don't have man here
to tune it right off she'll throw up he!
job"
He flung down the receiver and re.
Joined her.
upon my wordv' she exclaimed
"Who authorized you to say that?'
IF he doesn't have tuner here by
tomorrow morning you needn't PAYNE
any wages for myself or the two as
sistants. You women are not fitted
to get on as men are You haven't
got any sand
Where men have as much Of it I
you have there's none left for Us
women -
She consented to let the matter rest.
and sure enough the next morning the
piano was tuned Then the first assist
ant gardener insisted on the head ga
dener spending the morning with hi
in the music room
Finally the grounds We're laid out
on the new plan. The men the assist
ant had hired kept at.work and seemed
satisfied with their pay. How their