Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-09

are gong around Win me. wen see
everything that is worth seeing.
Dorothea shook her head. I'm
afraid they won't like it, she said.
"My stepmother thinks that maid
makes more work."
That night Aunt Clara preached
the subject OF more help. She was
not sure that she liked her brothers
new wife, but she meant to be pleas,
ant to her and her two daughters.
She simply stated that she wanted to-
see a great~deal of Dorothea and that
1t would be best, therefore, to get
some one to do the work
Aunt Clara was rich and it seemed
best not to cross her, SO the maid
was secured and Dorothea was free.
II The first thing that Aunt Clara
did was to take her to the shops. She
fitted her out with everything In the
way Of pretty summer clothes. There
was an exquisite white embroidered
gown, which cost SO much that Doro-
thea gasped.
"Oh! Aunt Clara, you are perfect
fairy godmother!'
WELL think you need a fairy
godmother," Aunt Clara said. II wish
could help you to find the prince"
Dorothea flushed. There was a
prince, but he rode away
why did he go?"
Dorothea shook her head. II am
not sure, but think they told him
was too young to marry"
'Humph!" was all the answer Aunt
Clara made.
That night, however, she asked
some questions of the stepmother and
her daughters. They admitted that
there had been young man. but that
he was poor and Dorothea was young,
and besides they needed her at home.
Aunt Clara went up to her room
and wrote letter. She was wise
old woman, and she knew that love
was better than riches. Besides, she
had plenty of money, and if Dorothea
wished to marry a poor prince she
should have him.
It was a week before the answer
came, and in the meantime Aunt
Clara spoke Of the big lawn party
that she intended to give. The house
was too small, she argued. to hold
many guests, but temporary re-
freshment tent could be put up on the
lawn. and as money can do everything,
the place could be transformed for the
occasion.
She told Dorothea to wear the en-
broidered white gown. She had q
fancy, too. that her niece should wear
white satin slippers. although they
did not seem appropriate for out OF
doors. The two sisters were to serve
lemonade but Dorothea was to
MI ;, eyJo NTH tho O,,pSfS
Thus it happened that Dorothea, a
dream Of beauty in her snowy white,
came across the lawn with Aunt
Clara just in time to meet a young
man in gray fiannels who rushed to
them. beaming.
"Why-it's Jack--Jack Barton!"
Didn't you know was coming?
Aunt Clara gave him warning
look.
Ell had some business here he
stammered.
Later. he and Aunt Clara had a
long talk II am poor and feel as II
l ought not to ask her" he said, "but
I love her dearly"
With Aunt Clara's encouragement,
however, the little romance was con-
summated that night. and, having
done her good work, the old lady left
for home.
After her departure things went
back into the old routine. Dorothea
again washed the dishes, and, it seem
ed to her as the summer waned and
the winter came on, that she and Jack
were growing farther apart. There was
nothing left Of the romance OF the
summer days when Aunt Clara haw
visited them except the little white
satin slippers which Dorothea kept on
the top of her dresser as reminder OF
the dav when Jack had asked her to
marry him.
At last things came to climax.
II am too poor" Jack declared;
Everybody says So"
"Who is everybody"
1t developed that the stepsisters
had been making trouble. They had
put into Jacks mind doubts that
should not have existed. And there
was no fairy godmother to straightep
things out.
One night Dorothea sat IN ne
kitchen alone. Every one else had
gone to the theater. She had finished
her work and was resting for a mo-
mCuJ III LIl6 uulrI pAoCS DSlOIO ouC USs
gan q letter to Jack.
Suddenly she heard a step on the
walk, the knob Of the door ratified,
and. as she ran to open 1t. some one
stepped in quickly. It was Aunt
Clara.
"Ten me what has happened?" she
said. II have just had despairing
letter from Jack, and he says you
don't love him."
"He doesn't love me- Dorothea
sobbed.
Once more Aunt Clara became the
peacemaker Her methods were not
those OF the godmother in the fairy
tale, but they sufi1ced. Instead Of
pumpkins and rats and mice she had
an automobile which served her pur-
pose better than carriage. Into It
she bundled Dorothea, then suddenly
she changed her mind.
"Run upstairs first." she ordered.
"and put on your white gown and
those white satin slippers. IL It's
going to be case Of Cinderella we
might as well have the transforms
ton scene right now. l have only
this evening to spend with you. To
leave for Europe and I
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