Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-05-20

DEAD white. heavy oN0rtN petals.
Dulcie stopped in Il store where
goods were cheap and bought an tn,i
tation lace collar with her 30 cents
That money WAS TO have been SpeM:
cthelwisrl1 cents for supper. IL
cents for breakfast. 10 cents for lunch.
Another dime was to he added TO her
small store of savings. and 5 cents
was to be suuandcrcd for licoricc drops
the kind that made your cheek look
like the toothaclle and last us long.
The licorice was an eXtravagancc-al-
most carouse--but what is life with.
out pleasures?
Dulcie lived in Il furnished room.
There is this difference between a fur
nished room and Il boarding house
in a furnished room other people do
not know it when you go hungry.
Dulcie went up to her room-the
third floor back in a west side brown
stone front. She lit the gas. Scien-
fists tell us that the diamond is the
hardest substance known. Their mis-
take. I.andladies know of compound
| beside which the diamond is as putty.
They pack it in the tips of gas burn
ers, and one may stand on Il chair and
dig at it in vain until ones fingers are
pink and bruised. \ hairpin will not
remove it: therefore let us call it i'm.
movable
So Dulcie lit the gas. In its one
fourth candle power glow we will OBJ
serve the room.
Couch bed. dresser, table, wasllstand.
CHARIOT this much the landlady was
guilty. The rest was Duicie's.
On the dresser were her treasures
Il gilt china vase presented to her by
Sadie, a calendar issued by a pickle
works, Il book OH the divination of
dreams. some rice powder i'll glass
dish and a cluster of artificial cherries
tied with a pink ribbon.
Against the wrinkly mirror stood
pictures of General Kitchener, William
Muldoon. the Duchess of Marlborough
and Benvenuto Cellini. Against one
wall was a plaster of paris plaque of
an O'Callahan in Roman helmet
Near it was violent telegraph of a
lemon colored child assaultny an in
flammatory butterfly. This was Dull
cie's final Judgment in art, but it had
never been upset. Her rest had never
been disturbed by whispers Of stolen
copes; no critic had elevated his eye
brows at her infantile entomologist
Piggy was to call for her at {. While
she swiftly makes ready let us dis
creetly face the other way and Cos
sip.
For the room Dulcie paid 50 per
week. On week days her breakfast
costs 10 cents. She made coffee and
cooked an egg over the gaslight while
she was dressing. On Sunday morn
ings she Toasted royalty on veal chops
and pineapple fritters at "Billy's'' res
taurant at cost of % cents and tip.
ped the waitress 10 cents. New York
presents so many temptations for one
to run into extravaganza.
She had her lunches in the depart.
ment store restaurant ut u cost of &C
cents fer the week. Dinners were
$1.05. The evening papers-show mt
a New Yorker going without his daily
paper!--canle to q cents. and two Sun
day papers, one for the personal col
umn and the other to read. were 1(
cents. The total amounts to $4.76
Now, one has to buy clothes. and
, give it up. hear Of wonderful
bargains in fabrics and Of miracle:
performed with needle and thread, bu
l am in doubt. | hold my pen poisei
in vain when would add to Dulcie':
life some of those joys that belong t,
woman 10y virtue Of all the unwrittcn
sacred, natural. inactive ordinances O
the equity of heaven. Twice she hat
been to Coney Island and had riddel
the hobbyhorses. Ills a weary thin;
to count your pleasures by summer
instead of by hours.
Piggy needs but a word. When tn
: girls named him an undeserving stig
. ma was cast upon the noble famil,
= Of swine.
l The words of three letters lesson il
e the old blue spelling book begins witt
: Piggy's biography. He was fat; Ii
] had the soul of a rat. the habits of
: bat and the magnanimity of a cat. II
> wore expensive clothes and was con
{ noisseur in starvation. He could loo
at shopgirl and tell you to an hou
:: how long it had been since she ha
II eaten anything more nourislling tina
marshmallows and tea.
e He hung about the shopping dis
Il tricts and prowled around in depar,
d ment stores with his invitations t
y dinner.
II Men who escort dogs upon the stree;
II at the end of string look down upo
ii him.
lie is Il type. can dwell upon hil
IS no longer. My pen is not the kind ii
III tended for him. am no carpenter
y. At ten minutes to Dulcic W.,
le ready. She locked ut herself in I'll
Fl wrinlily mirror. The reflection WI:
satisfactory. The dark blue dress, Fl
IL ting without Il wrinkle. the hat wit
its jaun;y black feather. the but Sigh
lie ~ soled sloves-lll representing SO
~ denial. even Of food tsclf-wnre vast
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