The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-31


have never attended a circus, have
your
Never"
Wen have him put that in the
letter. 1t will show that you are not
a frivolous girl. Have you ever
danced"
mo"
se,rhat must go in. too. Whoever
k4mploys YOU must know that you are
not one to put on your hat and walk
off to a dance anytime the ht comes
on. / don't think you ever had
beau, did you? That is. you never
had one that talked about getting
married?"
mo"
.eThe minister orter make the most
of that i'm his letter In the city they
want to know that a gal they hire
amt taIkin' love and marriage every
evenin' and gettin' all upset over it.
Let's see-you don't use paint nor
powder nor bleach your hair
"Oh, no."
an have the minister put that in.
The folks down there don't want girls
that primph up. Kitty Clarkson, you
ran take the minister's letter and go
to the city and earn thirty or forty
4 dollars a week right from the day
YOU get there. There may be half a
dozen business men to meet you at
the depot If we hear you are earn
ing q hundred dollars week nobody
Will be envtous."
But I don't know what l can get
to do" said the girl.
DO? Do? Why. they'll offer you
this and that, and you can take your
pick
Then the good spinster Martin
came In to say
yes, Kitty, it's going to be a great
\ thing for YOU. You won't have the
4 least trouble finding a place, but it
4 would be great thing for you to
4 learn typewriting. You may strike
place with some banker who'll
4 want a letter written. Come over to
the house and III teach you.
In the course of fortnight Miss
I KiIy departed for the city. She had
I with her the minister's letter as a
1 certificate OF character, and a specf-
\ men of her dexterity on the type
4 writer that read:
"The sun Is up, and The sun Is
Down. l Can Also write the Lord
4 Pra Yer"
There was no one at the depot to
4 meet the girl. There was no one 10
1 help her find O boarding house. The
next mornings dailies did not chron-
\ iCle her arrival.
Even when she had found board
4 ing place and paid a week in advance
on a hall bedroom she had heard the
Z landlady say to boarder:
There's another fool girl come tc
town instead of going to some idiot
\ asylum"
The girl shed few tears and went
4 TO bed and to sleep. and next morning
she started out with brave heart &c
I secure a place. She was just too late
r.. s.f,n oil nd
that there had been scores of girls
I ahead of her Sometimes, notwith'
standing the imp thence to get ria o.
her she fingered to say:
But | have a letter from my min
lister"
a pump kin field.
\ But / don't bleach my hair mol
paint nor powder"
\ But you'll soon get the hang OF it.
AT one or two other places the!
> sat her down at a typewriter TO ties
her work After I'VE minutes sh'
- was Courteously bowed out
II took Miss Kitty Ciarkson les
than two weeks to learn that wha
| the doctor the old maid. Mrs. John
son and she herself knew about tn
big city could be held In a very small
-1 thimhle She walked about the street
=, for DAYS and days. She called at of
only place offered to her after sh
had been turned away a hundre'
\ times was a situation in box fac
~ tory at 81 per week. She took 1t, bu
:" in another month would have beel
u nenniless but for a streak OF luck
=, one evening in coming from the fac
ID tory she found forty dollars In tn
gutter. Yes, there were four ten
N dollar bills. and they were wet ant
stained.
y. Miss Kitty did not advertise for al
" owner. One in thousand migh
Ig have done so, but she was not tina
d. one At the noon hour next day sh
rs placed the money in q bank. Tw
a weeks the girl made up her mind t.
Sc of ii to make even, and it was at tn
AZ paying teller's window she frs
III caught sight of Brian Van Vert. III
he was a young man, and he was s
~ courteous and kind as to draw he
particular attention. she had neve
drawn a check in her life, and ha'
$50 TO be shown how,
1T was an uphill fight with the girl
but she hung on in hope of bette
thing. She had not been able L
. send home a dollar yet, nor to ear
d her own way. but the landlady ha'
encouraged her.
After a bit Miss Kitty had to draw
II out more money. More talk with tn
l. paving teller. At the end of thre
. weeks the girl made up her mind T.
u accept defeat and return home Will
l. at work for the 81 per week she ha'
lie advertised and sought in other way
;, to better herself, but without avail
n 1t seemed as If there was con
spiracy against her. Yes. she woui
Z. withdraw her balance and go back {
y mother and say she had failed.
~ A bank makes no mistakes--tha
- is, the mistakes are not made public
The receiving teller of the ban
wherein Miss Kitty deposited her 81
~, =. entered 1t on slip for the bookkeepe
as s400. The girl was given pass
Y; book with that sum entered upon il
ID She wondered over the odd cipher, br
was too timid to ask questions. A
,. the close Of the days business tn
= bank was short $3.50. but it was nc
l. traced TO the Ciankson passbook. no
accounted for otherwise. and the re
s ceiving teller had to stand the loss.
When Miss Kitty had made up he
"a mind to go home she knew that sh
ID had $40 in the bank. In writing OF
T. her check she made 1t for s200. Sh
70 was thinking of the extra cipher, 8
10 she thought Of it in the book. Sh
a., received the money and rolled 1t u