The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-08-23

Tkey were stout and coarse anu scan''
and not Of the latest cut, bit what mat
tered it? She decided on seventy
I'VE cent black one.
Growing wise with experience. sne
discovered that she could get a olack
sateen shirtwaist for fifty cents. RuD'
hers and a cotton umbrella took an
other dollar and half. She must save
at least a dollar to send back the suit
case by express. .
A bargain-table Of odds and ends OF
woollen jackets, golf vests, and Ola
fashioned blouse sweaters, selling OH
at a dollar apiece, solved the PROB
lem of a wrap. She selected a DARK
blouse, of an ugly, purply blue, but
thick and warm. Then with her pre-
cious packages she asked a pleasant
faced saleswoman if there were any
place near where she could slip on q
walking skirt she had just bought to
save her other skirt from the muddy
streets. She was ushered into . little
fitting.room near by.
Rapidly she slipped of her fine, silk
lined cloth garments, and put on tho
stir sateen waist and the coarse
black skirt. Then she surveyed her.
self, and was not i'll pleased. There
was a striking lack Of collar and belt.
She sought out q black necktie and
pinned it about her waist and then,
with a protesting frown, she DELHI
erately tore strip from the edge Of
one Of the fine hem.stitched handker.
chiefs. and folded it in about her neck
in turnover collar. The result was
quite startling and unfamiliar. The
gown, the hair, the hat and the neat
collar gave her the look Of a young
nurse-girl or upper servant. On the
whole, the disguise could not have
been better. She added the blue wool.
len blouse, and felt certain that even
her most intimate friends would not
recognize her. She folded the rain.
coat, and placed it smoothly in the
suitcase, then with dismay remem.
bered that she had nothing in which
to put her own cloth dress, save the
Few inadequate paper wrappings that
had come about her simple purchases.
She folded the dress smoothly and laid
1t In the suitcase, under the raincoat.
She sat down at writing-desk, in
the waiting room, and wrote: 81 am
safe, and l thank YOU" Then she
paused an instant, and with nervous
haste wrote MARY" underneath. She
opened the suitcase and pinned the pa
per to the lapel Of the evening coat
Just three dollars and sixty.seven cents
She had left in her pocketbook after
paying the expressage on the suitcase
AT her first waking, in the early gray
hours OF the morning, she had looked
her predicament calmly in the face
She had gone carefully over her own
accomplishments. Her musical attain
ments, which would naturally have
been the first thought, were out of the
question. Her Skill as musician was
so great, and SO we'll known by he,
enemy. that she would probably be
traced by 1t at once. The same argu
ments were true if she were to at
tempt to take position as teacher O,
governess, although she was thorough
~ competent to do so. A servant,
place In some ones home was the onl,
thing possible that presented itself IL
her mind. She could not cook. nor d.
general homework, but she though
she could fill the place of waitress.
With a brave face, but shrinkin,
heart, she stepped into a drug stor,
and looked up in the directory the I'D
dresses Of several emplovmen
agencies.