The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
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paper Enterprise Association,
81 asked You down here to talk
to you about our home affairs"
said Mollie after Mr.. Patrick
Sullivan had left the table where
Mollie and | were lunchng. and
we have been all the time talking
about my boss. ..iargie, what do
YOU think Mother and | had bet
ter do?"
AT first l thought, dear, Il
would be ideal for you to live
with Mary and Jack. but | have
come to the conclusion that
would be impossible as your
mother would be complaining of
Mary all the time"
Il think" said Mollie, ut
would be a good thing for mother
to know just what yellow dog
Jack is. Oh, you need not look
so shocked, Margie. know lust
how he is acting and pity poor
Mary from the bottom of my
heart. My boss wants to rent
furnished house for while and
| think IL would be fine to rent
him ours. Mother and | could
board until We get our second
wind. Mother. however, is so
queer that | dare not suggest II
to her for II she thought | want
ed to do IL she would begin i'm
mediately to say that she could
not give up everything-her
home as well as her husband. II
We could only get her to suggest
1t then things would be all right.
She resents the slightest interior
ence In her affairs and will accept
the advice OF no one except Jack,
who, of course, Is for ousting
Mary and letting him run the
business.
"Margie, have no confidence
in Jack. lie wants to do big
things without any preparation
for them. He will not work. He
does not seem to understand that
you cannot accomplish anything
| by just wishing for it,"
| / looked at Mollie with re-
newed admiration, for seldom
does so young girl come to
understand that you must work
for things that you desire in this
world. No one Is going to hand
them to you. and even after you
have gotten them you must work
to keep them.
I'm tell you a secret, Margie,"
continued Mollie. 81 have been
writing some little things for the
paper. You see l have a good
deal of time when Mr.. Hatton is
not in. gave them to Mr.. Sui
livan and he has been running
them three times week and
they have been commented on
lot In the office" Mollie began
to laugh. who do you think in
the opinion of the staff is the
author of the stuff? No one
less than the boss himself. No
one seems to think that a woman,
much less little /, could write
them"
You don't mean, Mollie, that
you have been writing those
clever comments on books and
drama in the Daily ------?"
l exclaimed. "Mollie, you are
certainly a wonder. Why, they
have the tone and experience of
man of 30, and yet you say you
have no literary taste"
THAT is what Pat said, and |
don't mind telling you, dear, that
lots of II has come to me from
talking with you and Mary. !
did not tell you this to brag, but
to show you why Mr.. Sullivan Is
paying me SIS a week more SO
can afford to pay SIS week
for my board IL necessary"
II don't think you will have to
pay more than 500 q month for
you and your mother provided
you will go over and live with
the people / lived with before l
was married"
81 don't think you are right
about that, Margie. Although I'd
be awfully glad to do 1t, mother
would be very lonely. / think II
WOuiu Dc Dcttci iOT hCi " IfC at
some family hotel where she
would have plenty of company In
the house. 1t would make 1t
much easier for me-"
II saw Immediately that Mollie
was right and told her would
ask Dick to talk to mother"
Don't you think Aunt Mary
could do 1t better?" she asked.
"Mollie, you are a WITCH" | ex-
claimed. IL see you are going to
be one of those women who know
not only the thing to do but how
to do it."
Mollie looked up with a divine
smile and I suddenly understood
that she had grown up-she was
O woman.
"Margie," she said wistfully,
"I'll be glad to have my boss In
my house-it won't seem like
renting it to a stranger"
Oh!slove, love, what philter do
you give a girl that turns her, in
the twinkling of an eye, into a
woman?
Continued Tomorrow