Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-08-01
SHE WAS a. WINNER AT Is
And When She Reached the City Her
Advancement Was Rapid and Her
Rise a Triumph.

Sne lett mere at an immature age
but remained with MS long enough to
shake off the Emma and later the EN-,
adopting the more classic fore-name
of Emelyn
And now-now she is in the city, a
grand lady, with still another handle.'
1t is Imogene now.
For the purpose of this narrative,
however, we are going to stick to the
original EN- AS En- we first knew
her and learned to love her and so
as En- she shall remain
For four long years and more En-
never once returned to this, the place
of her nativity She went away one
day and the earth may as well have
opened and swallowed her up for all
people out this way knew All the
while, however, she was living in the
big city, only couple of hours run
from home.
Now she has favored us with her
presence again She has been back
on visit to her parents, who are
living unostentatiously in this quiet
settlement.
For as much as three years after
En- left here none knew where she
went or what she was doing. Along
about this time one of our citizens
went to the city one day and came
back full of knowledge. He had news
of EN- and he told it to some friends
in manner that was strictly con-
fidential" EN-, he had learned, had
become a great lady, had apartments
that were luxurious, had clothes that
swished and was doing fine for a girl
that had no regular trade. She was
her own boss, went to bed when she
wanted to and got up whenever she
happened to wake up. She had
bleached hair, had magnificent ear
rings and a poodle dog and knew
some ricn brokers' She had two
automobiles and her own chauffeur.
The citizen who found all this out
story got circulated and it wasn't
long before everybody in the town
knew that EN- was in the big city
and that she had got in right The
story was bruited around and many
good citizens held up their hands
aghast at the news. Others who
weren't so good said that EN- was
doing fine down in the city and they
expressed pleasure in learning that
EN- had not been obliged to spin her
life away in shirt factory or clothes
cleaning establ ishnient
Some said they always knew that
EN- had a fine future before her. She
was too good-looking to have to re-
sort to toll. Besides, they averred,
the girl that tolls can't wear dia-
monds and have poodle dogs and
automobiles.
Well, En- is now here visiting her
parents. She is handsomer than ever
and attracts more attention than be-
fore she left The city has helped
her much. She has class to her now
She has a change of dress for every
day in the week and there is swish
about her garments that stamps her
individuality Enthusiastically.
Em is here for just a short time.
She is going back to the city and
to her old life. How could she think
of coming back to this quiet, forlorn
town? Girls who go away like En-
did and getepleasantly and profitably
located in the city, never come back
not until they are 35 or 40 years old
anyway. And En-, we may add, isn't
yet 25 and has 10 or Is years before
the sunset period.
Now, we don't wish to create any
false impressions or arouse any false
hopes, but there wouldn't be any
point to this sermon unless we took
retrospective glance--told something
of Ems early days and how she got
her start.
EN- came from poor but honest
parents who gave her nothing but an
over supply of good looks. AS
child she was the most attractive girl
in the town For time no one but
some near neighbors and a few steady
workers of the sewing circle noticed
it, but, as time wore on and the girl
grew, the boys who went to school
with her got to speaking about her
beauty, the cigarette buffers observ-
ing it first.
About this time En- used to go to
the early meetings Sunday night,
joining. her parents for the later
meeting. BY and by she cut the early
meeting and attended the main ser
vice. AS she progressed she cut the
main service too, joining her folks at
home after the meeting. When she
didn't get in at retiring time, the
parents understood that they were to
leave the lamp burning. EN- could
get in without disturbing them, as she
had her own night key.
You see the parents unconsciously
perhaps, were grooming EN- to be-
come the great lady that she is since
she located in the city. If they had
seen to it that En- kept on going to
the early meetings, and the late ones
too, she possibly would never have
worn diamonds or carried poodles.
As stated above, the cigarette
smokers at school we're the first ones
to discover that En- was girl of
promise. As her beauty grew, more
experienced hands began to inquire
who she was and expressed surprise
that old man So-and So had daugh-
ter as good loking as all that. When
a girl of Is can make men of 30 or