Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-27

The American ladies' !were,artists. Some
of them painted out in theRfelds; others
IN the peasant cottages, using es1nnates as
and paving them half gulden, morning for Just
sitting still! Hcad-ikjes friend BeEta was one OF
the luck models who thus earned twenty cents
day. AID Cc-ta occame very proud and even as
agreeable ovc- !: too.
One G. - 1T ladies had pretty daughter
inst a5o-. -. .-..cs age and size This four
tccn-yc1--cl were the Iovecst clothes that ever
the eyes {: ---.---.1 Gazcd upon. AT least TWO
ewes r2zcL CO c;,. with envy, and those were f1eI1-
dril,ies Il seemed to her she never stepped out OF
her door :,s SIC saw the beautifully dressed Juff-
rouw (Which IS Dutch for "MissD. Then she would
look down at her own shabby frock and feel
wretchedly poor. -
Dutch village And one OF them on leaving did
something that made the cloud on HendrikJe,s face
blacker than ever-something that made her go
home and weep soon as she heard OF It.
Mother" she cried. Indignantly, the Ameri-
kaansche dame has given all her old clothes to
Berta"
eyes. dear and why not?" asked the vrouw,
quietly. "She knows Berta very well by this time
You wouldn't expect her to give her clothes to
strangers"
81 don't see why it didn't happen to be she
paintedI I'm sure L need clothes more than Berta
does-especially the winter coatP and poor Hen
drikje gave way to bitter tears That she needed
clothes was enough, for the Ruyters were the
poorest familyyi the village.
The next piece of news she learned in the town
did not make her any happier She came home IN
sulleu mood and told it ito her mother
- "Moeder.tth artist.with the young daughter IS
Going to stay here all winter. She's one OF the
artists who paint trees Iand sheep; II she only
the poor ps s4 had visions the clothes might
fall heir to IN that cas- m OF '1'
dEessed-up sirfsarounds sne enoeo' resehuuiiy.
Tut. tut, mesje. .The.Juffrouwt is very nice.
Didn't she give. the children a whole bag OF candy
whenever she met them on the heath l,..a 1.ou
"Ballitjes don't keep you-warrn, muttered Hen
drikje. =
Which+remarsz was, true. For Qualities are the
Dutch substitute flor sugar-ltte lozenges OF var
ious favors which the peasants hold on the tongue
while drinking their sugarless coffee Until they
met the Young lady the heath, the little Ruyters
had never known the luxuryof eating balls as candy
ten whole cents, worth at a time! 50 OF course
they liked the Juffrouw even though their elder
While the good vrouw tri-d to talk her daughter
mother in Blaarikam was similarly engaged And
that was Mrs. Goring, whose wen-dEessed young
Elsie Goring didn't want to stay in BLAIR kan She
wanted to go back to New Y OK, Where the h!gn
big colleges For Elsie ambitious, and cared
for her studies than for Tr5 e a n tine
honors at her graduation and why she was crazy
to get back" 49,. of s,hoo,
would be best-a year out the Dutch sanddunes,
1d the e4d t5e t re T Be and Butter and
eggs and other good things would make her plump
Elsie was terribly disappointed,
why, mother" She protested, I'll forget every
thing ever knew before next SEPTEMBER comes mes
round! And all the other girls OF my class VIII
be year ahead of mel"
"a year ahead of you in school lessons, agreed
her mother. But you may pick up something they
don't know
Elsie looked astonshed.
What pick up here in this little Dutch
village? II you would go to Paris for the winter,
could study something But here"-and Else's look
OF disgust finished the sentence.
yet there's a lot be learned right here, dear,
smiled her mother. Things you could never learn
from books"
Elsie couldn't understand it, and cried herself to
sleep that night But the September days were so
beautiful she couldn't help feeling glad sometimes
when the keen heather-scented air blew IN her face
The crisp October was 1ovier still and she began to
feel little reconciled. Though: for the life
of her. she couldn't that ST was learning any
thing by inst proving around Blaarikam.
One day she saw Hendrikie Ruyter in the vii
lage. and spoke to her-for the first time.
Don't your little sisters play out on the
heath any more" she asked. 81 never see them
ooh, no. Juffrouw.' and Hendrikie fairly shud-
dered at the thought. att is much too cold
We just sit huddled by the fire all the time