Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-01-20
CHAPTER |.
How It All BEGAN.
Copyrighted 1906, by BoBBsMERRrLL COMPANY

How It All Began.
I'VE can hold out six months long
er-at least six months" My moth
er's tone made the six months
stretch encouragingly into six long
! years.
l see her now wildly as If 1t were
only yesterday. We were at our sCant
breakfast | as blue as was ever
| even %, she brave and confident
And hers was no mere pretense to
| reassure me, no cherries optimi SIN
| OF ignorance, but the through-and
! through courage and strength of those
who finch for no DOGGY that life or
| death can Conjure, Her tone lifted
me; ! glanced at her and what shone
from her eyes set me on my feet, face
to the foe. The table-eloth was darn
! ed in many places, but so skillfully
that you could have looked closely
| without detecting 1t. Not a lump of
| sugar nor slice of bread went to
waste In that house; yet even | had
to think twice to realize that we were
poor desperately poor. She did not
hide our poverty she beautified it.
! she dignified 1t into Spartan sim
! plicity. | know it is not the glamour
over the past that makes me be-
lieve there are no women now like
nose of the race to which she he.
! longed The world TO-DAY Yields
comfort too easily 10 the canable.
hardship is the opiy mold for such
character. aud In those DAYS in this
middle-westcrn country, even the cap
able were strangers to hardship.
when | was young" she went on
land things looked black as thew
have habit of looking to the voung
and inexperieuced,"- that nut in with
a teasing smile at met used TO saw
to myself; well, anyhow. they can't
! kill me" And the Thought usad to
| cheer me up wonderfully. In fact, it
still does"
| no longer felt homeless hogan
to gnaw my troubles again-despair is
still
Judge CRANKY is a dog" said 7.
''yes, a dog"
"Nhv .dog9'n ohiaotcd NV nathan
"Whv not simnlv sraan mapq rve
never l,povp a dog ,,,.t oo,,ld oo,,al
a man who set ont +o ha .o,,,a,.,,"
"yvhon tbirl or al. 49,. ,,.o,.i, r,,o
dona for hin, =, ttosn t,,.o, ,.aau- ),
- ,,o,,rso1f,, rio t-,4l.,,,,,,t,,,
oyK,o,l, Won do 60. ,4i,oaa ,,l.pe,.1t
amount ~ ,,,,ob ,,,1o-e 49, 49,, a,a-t
ond host For ,,onnaoif,, - ,'' - -
.pu+ bo ror honae+o, h- +. 49,,
T urged land bse ta?Jan no oasr ona
bos bod ,,,oro aii-.4 a,5 1,i,1 ''9' s''lu
tbo, Lo a,,or had has',.a 80 ,,,-l 80
give him ioIt ia ston nnn n, ~
e.. 9oP us rs
corner of the gloes in bie door "a
hang ont hio eign of my, or,, ovor
NV own ofce doorv
NV, roo+ha. h,ro+ toto ,,
-, ii' 49, D",S' ILL., l"olailI
hear that" she said
Thereupon I had a shock Of fright
inside, for I'd never have dared to
show fear before my mocher There's
nothing else that makes YOU so brave
DIS Ilr'HS WIN some one o''He whom
~" i'1 Vi VIC YOU '.,' - Jet your
dIdn,t loo, oocb otbor NV N.Y. ~ 4,,o We
what q snectoc1e of f,tab+ ana etaht
this world-drama would he, Vanity
the greatest of vices, is also the
| greatest of virtues, or the source of
the greatest Ylrtues-which comes to
the same thlhs'
"neh qla you 40 II! she went on
anu anu ' m,dI, r. nnS" do N 'or IT. ana
tho+ hod boan I,ao,';,,, ION
49,. npa HsHC-
0Hu' upon lily uIe@i1 Oh lhdepend-
ehee'
| '1ll-Pil think about it." was nv
answer in a tone which 7 hoped she
would see was net b-sn lting hut re-
| Elective. 81 mustn't on foo far--or 200
faetn
Better go too far and too fast
! tbon mona Of oil - ratOrtad NV u,igo