The Forrest City times., 1914-02-06
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enced shopper She went straight tc the millinery department and arranged to have the hat boxed and sent to tht address Bunham had given her.
 | had cost less to express the hal than she had feared, yet her stock ot money was woefully small Some Einf of dress she must have. and vrap that she might be disguised, but what could sine buy and yet have sometAina left for food? Lifting her eyes. she saw sign over table-"Linene ] Skirts. 75 cents and $10o."
 i Here was a ray of hope. She turned eagerly to examine them. Piles of l soT Der skirts, blue and black and tan. ! They Were stout and coarse and scant and not of the latest cut, but what mat. tered 1t? She decided on a seventy. i five cent black one
 i Growing wise with experience. she 1 discovered that she could get d black sateen shirtWaist for fifty cents. Rub bers and d cotton umbrella took an other dollar and half She must save at least dollar to send back the suit case by express
 A bargain-table Of odds and ends of woollen Jackets. golf vests, and old Fashioned blouse sweaters. selling off at a dollar apiece. solved the prob rem ol wrap. She selected a dark blouse, of an ugly, purply blue. but thlck and warm. Then with her pre- clous packages she asked a pleasant. laced salesWoman If there were any place near where she could slip on q walking skirt sine had just bought to save her other skirt from the muddy streets She was ushered into little iltting.room near by.
 Rapidly she slipped off her fine silk ihed cloth garments, and put on the StlH sateen waist and the coarse oidck skirt Then she surveyed her sell. and was not ill pleased. There was striking lack of collar and belt SAe sought out black necktie and plhhed It about her waist. and then. "lth protesting frown. she delib- efateiy tore strip from the edge of one or the fine hem,stitched handker- chlets, and folded it in about her neck m turnover collar. The result was quite startling and unfamiliar. The gown, the halr, the hat, and the neat collar gave her the look of d young hurse-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 hef most intimate friends would not recognize her. She folded the rain coat, and placed 1t smoothly in tbe suitcase, then with dismay remem. bered that she had nothing in which To put her own cloth dress, save the few Inadequate paper wrappinra that had come about her simple purchases She tolded the dress smoothly and laid It In the suitcase, under the raincoat
 She sat down at a writing-desk in fhe waiting room. and wrote. "I am sate and ! thank you." Then she paused an instant, and with nervous haste wrote Mary" underneath Sbc opened the suitcase and pinned the pa per to the lape! of the evening coat Just three dollars and siXty-scven ctpts sho had left in her pocketbook after paying the eNpressago on the suitcase
 Al her '.rs' waking, in the carly gay hours of the morning. she had looked her prcd.cameut calmly in the face She had aoH" carefully over her own accomplishments Her musical attain. meu's, which would naturally have bern th. first tho1aht were cut of ,ho question Her skill as musician was 90 -rgat and SO V,H known by her ,asmE that she WoUd probably oc sraad by if at once The same arsu- n r's 1rra true f she were 10 at teMlf to tahe a position as teacher or aeVtragss, a'thoush shp was thoroueh- 'F coure'srt to do ao. A servants place .N eome ones home was tue only tlius possible thar presented itself to lar mua Sb. could not cook. nor Io eeusrat Laa~eaork but she thought she could dJl the place of waitress.
 W.,h brave face but shrinking heut sto slc.pya into a drug store and looked up n tAe directory the ad- dresses ot several employment asrnslcs