The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16
zW EVENING STORY
Assisted by Betty Baker.


By Lawrence Alfred Clay.)
In actual life. when poor young man
| sees. admires and loves rich gtri ne
says to her:
what II money? Humph! It 10 mere
dross. It will buy breakfast foods and
| take you into the shows. but 1t can't buy
| you such love as I have for YOU"
| And she looks at him and replies:
You are q thousand times right. Harold.
We win get married and live in a two
room cottage and will take in washing
and hopping to support the family. What
dross have VIII give to the heather.
and then we will have nothing to bother
| u.s.
It is somewhat different in the story
books.
The poor young man sees the rich young
lady gliding by In her auto. Hts heart
! began to thump. He is in love before
her auto has busted a tire-madly in love,
and yet realizing the terrible. horrible.
indispensable gulf separating them
He il out of a job. out OF money. and
the tobacco stores won't trust him for
| cigarettes. Four inches Of the lace on that
girls dress would meann q porterhouse
steak smothered in onions for him. but
| alas, no steak-no smother for him!
Henry St Claire was born Of respect
anything else. When he had worked his
way through college and came out with
| a good general education. he found that
such men were worth q salary OF about
| ten dollars . week. After looking In vain
| for a better thing, he accepted It. He be-
came private secretary and librarian to a
Mr.. Scott.
Mr.. Scott was chiefly known as that
man that lived next door to Mr.. McCabe,"
and the latter was chiefly known as to be
| worth several million dollars. He had a
wife and daughter, and the daughter was
beautiful. Her name was Roma
On the morning that Henry st. Claire
assumed his duties and within half an
hour after assuming. he caught his first
sight Of Miss Roma as she droven from
the house in an auto. There was instant
Ing on hers as abe didn't know that such
a young man existed.
In four or five days the young man was
him realize to the fullest extent the help
lessness OF his position.
In love with an heiress whose auto
would run him down and then speed away
IL he fingered to take another look at
her!
In love with an aristocrat and he
Qonentity!
In love with n girl. and not earning
salary enough to buy her shoes II she
became his wife!
Love 10 something that neither sex can
always go with it. When young Mr.. st.
Clare realized the gulf between them he
employers cook that diverted them into
other channels. Betty Baker was . mid
dle-aged woman who had had her own
troubles with the god OF love.
I: She was q good cook, but she believed
that all men and all women were born
tree and equal. She considered herself
of the family. and II snubbed she went
on a strike for higher wages. Mr.. st.
Claire had not been in the house two
hours when she entered the library and
took seat and began:
Now. then, you are no better than /
am, and I am no better than you are.
while we are both as good as the master
and mistress
"Yesf"
you are a good looking young man
and o:w they say you have good education
But you are working for ten dollars
ST have got to make a start" he said.
"And q poor start 1t IL. my boy"
"And have you come In here to taunt
me with my poverty!
"Hush! Betty Baker taupnts no one. She
sometimes gives advice. but she never
And you have come to give me ad-
4 have and when I think need advice
next door
YES"
She's got a mighty heap of money"
And she hasn't = lover. She's a bit
How do you mean queer7''
she reads books"
mot that kind, SIR She won't read q
book unless it il q story Of knight or
| u
poor young man who has saved her
"And how does it come that you know
so much about the rich girl next door,"
asked the private secretary.
IT was the cook there for seven long
years. and only quit q year ago when the
that she, felt herself a heap above me.
Miss Roma and I were like sisters. II
know her better than her own mother
:'But the advice!'
wait q week."
Young st. Claire was slightly consoled
Cabe was romantic. She had . father
who wasn't q bit that way, and the
chances were that he would have some
The girl would marry = poor young man
or none at all. He wa. a poor young
man, all right. but she had fun hall
According to the cook. Miss Roma want
ed q hero. He was perfectly willing to
become hero; but . whers wa. the "a. oppor.
to put himself in the way Of meeting
No! There was no hope for the young
man. He must mourn himself into the
grave through unreQl1ited love. What left
him without ray Of hope was that Betty |
Baker was rebuked for sitting In the par |
lor with her feet cooked mp ON another !
chair. and she had stood on her dignity |
and quit the job. It took ten days and
running I'm the same old way she dropped |
Into the library e say.
at might a. we'll be."sswas. the melan- |
THAT can keep for . spell. IKE Boston
baked beans. am going to Mas ROmA1
and ten her you ere perishing Of yourf
love for her"
'sMerciful heavens nor
mot word In your praise until after
the event
but what ovent?'
Yong mAn!'' said Betty Baker In solemn 1
tones, Miss Roma walks Ia her sleepr' |
Mr.. St Claire looked At her in = beWil-
dered way.
~Yoa, sir. she do, ana her own mother /
DON'T know II Many b he night hayo