Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1912-05-10
One iris
Luck.


g funny how We never appreciate
our own good luck, 4 said the little
$stenographer as she pinned tissue pa.
per round her clean, stiff cuffs pre-
paratory to attacking the days work.
ell z" The n bookkeeper's tone
called for particulars. Then he asked
What special luck has shefallen you Re
oh, It's Just the glory Of being able
to work, !" she declared. Think Of
earning ones own living! Think Of
being business woman, free from,
all the cares and tribulations Of home
life nothing to do but earn nice
little salary that m sure Of. getting
each week! f$ff s;5 sss 52ss " ys
I'm much to be envied by my Sis
tiers in society, the poor butterflies
who are forced to stay up lats4 night
after night, while I'm renewing my
beauty such as It is In sleep. The
worn. ennuied. ambitionless girls
who drag out a wretched existence
trying to have q good time how /
pity them! The . .s:E5s
Here, here! ." exclaimed the book.
keeper, excitedly. Stop before you're
all run down. You're overworkins
yourself. child. I'm afraid you're 60.
ing to be Ill" ,55.; /.
The little. stenographer smiled
And he thought / meant It'll" she en-.
claimed, under her breath. 5ss
No, but listen to mel" abe Insist
ed aloud. Think Of It'll Here. 1 ger
sup, at six o'clock mornings, well rested
after 3 good, long sleep, having gone
to bed at tenno social engagements
having kept me up-and L dress in ave
or ten minutes, having things all my
own way, being bothered by no maid,
and knowing exactly where my. things
are, having put them in certain places
myself the night before. / know e1-
actly what to wear. 90 I don't have
to worry for an hour to decide which
dress VIII be most becoming. Il Just
put on my working dress on work
days and my Sunday dress ON 4 Sun.
days, and that's all there 10 to 1t. Why.
it's beautifully simple. Think Of tho
Joy Of having no worry on that score: !:
then think OF the trials Of society
bellies. 81 4 }.$s i
Then. too, know exactly where
I'm going every day and Just what I'm
going to do. don't have to worry
and fret over whether I'm insulting
or pleasing by accepting or rejecting
invitations. don't have to attend
long receptions and meet illustrious
folk and feel alarm lest / won't DO
smart enough to talk with them. i
Just calmly take q nice, convenient
street car to my daily work. After
get there I find my day all arranged
for BY the firm 10 worry whatever
on my part Shouldn't ! appreciate All
that
s3.I never have to face emergencies,
being never, called suddenly to Soma
important social affair in New York or
San Francisco or to. Europe. Think OF
4 the poor girls, no older than i, who
uddenly face the dire necessity OF
getting twenty, or thirty new frocks
and the sundries & to attend them!
Think Of having to let modistes At you
1 to. dress after dress, and having TO suf-
fer in silence, SO that the At OF each
may be perfectl For, being in the
1 public eye, the society girl can't stick
4 q pin in anywhere to hide a wrinkle
/ and then stand SO that side Of her
won't be noticed. She must. be abso:
lutely perfect all over. d.
Think Of her troubles, and then
think Of me! 4 can devote any noon
\ hour to shopping merely. by going
without lunch. I can pick mp bargains
at any sale Then in not more than
two. or three weeks, by working eve
4 nings and Saturday afternoons, I can
have g. new dress made exactly az. ]
want #. i don't have: to take Just
4 what some dressmaker tells me /
must have. can have low wasted
i dress II I want it-and that Kind is
easier to make when every one. is
wearing high waists and on one can
stop me. $:.s;5 ss
Think, too. Of the poor society
i girls having 70 take along chaperon
wherever she goes Why, i &. can
\ work nights until ten or eleven any
| time the frm wants me to and then
take my taye-mile trip home alone, and
4 no one sayssa word. i have such per
|. feet freedom! ! can go to a theater
with Just another girl, II want to.
and sitting high up, no opera glass.
es are turned ON me to note with
4 whom I'm sitting. From my comfort.
able chair 1 can see the poor rich
Il Girl, In tight clothes and q stiff, I'M.
i comfortable posftio for she can't
4 hlouch down and be comfortable-try.
Ing to look unconscious Of the opera
4 glasses turned on her / can enjoy the
d play, but she must be constantly think.
Ing Of herself. 7.z.'
Say. honestly, = declared the little
4 stenographer, looking half seriously
ct the bookkeeper for an instant. $ado
.you Know. after all, I don't know but
i that I'm half right in what ! say. I
DIDN'T mean It ct all. when i said il.
i Dut I've Just about cony1nced myself
4 that 1t,0 pretty good fhynr, 81, "a u Z, =