The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-08-04

By Jeanneton Stay-at-home.


In a little Canadian village lived
family of six people, man and
his wife, two sons and two daugh-
ters. A story could be written about
each member Of the family. But the
present story is of the eldest son,
with some side lights on the rest of
the family. The village was a quiet
and beautiful place. The father was
the village tailor. He had work
enough to do. But the people in the
village wore their clothes a long
time. Any mending there was to do
was done at home by the villagers
wives. The people who came in from
the country to the village to buy
what they needed wore their clothes
even longer than the village people
did. Therefore the tailor, while he
had enough to do, and made living
for his family, had not more than
enough to do, and the family had to
live carefully.
The tailor's wife was a beautiful
manager. They lived in a little frame
house on one of the farthest out
streets of the village. 1t was a tidy
house. There was a garden where
vegetables grow, and some flowers
bloomed close to the little house. It
was thrifty place, but not particu-
larly attractive. I do not think that
the tailor's wife had any keen eye
for beauty. She had come from a
in tab
was clean, but neither beautiful nor
picturesque. Besides that, there was
a great deal of work to do, and it
was hard to make both ends meet.
When the story of the son is finished
you will know better what kind of
woman the tailor's wife was.
The eldest boy went to school till
he was ten. Then he said to his
father and mother that he would like
to go to work as boy in the gro
GERS shop. on the main street of the
village. He earned two dollars a
week, and paid small amount of
board to his mother. Of course, all
the children helped at home But
they were not paid for this. The
home was their home. The mother
who did most Of the work was their
mother. Why should they be paid
for helping in their home, to which
they belonged, and which belonged
to them, or for helping their mother
their mother-who worked for
them all day and every day?
The eldest boy, although he was
working for the village grocer, did
not mean to be a grocer or a tailor.
Before he was ten he knew what he
wanted to be. He wanted to be a
banker. The salaries paid bank
clerks are not large, especially when
they begin young, as William meant
to begin. He began to save out of
his two dollars week, putting by
what he could, and by the time he
was fourteen he had saved two hun
dred dollars. l do not know how he
did it. But when boy like William
and a woman like the tailor's wife
begin to do anything they generally
succeed in doing it.
William began in one of the banks
III lAC mere were TWO
banks in the village. 1t was more
practicable for William to get into
the smaller and junior bank, so that
was the bank he went into Years
went by and William was moved to
several Of the towns near by the vii
lage where he was born and where
his mother lived. Then. too, he was
always doing other things as well as
being in bank. William filled va
rious Offices to the satisfaction of the
people whose work he did, and from
these Offices there was always a lit
tie money coming in. In the years
between fourteen and twenty-seven.
William thought Of many things that
he could do for the tailor's house in
the village. One year he had the
house painted. Another year he sent