The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-28
CHAPTER xI.
Writing Hone-


 Es first It's all so strange and
 grand-the people are just people, but the things are wonderful. When I lived in the cove-it seems a long, long time agony thoughts were GAways away from dirt floors and cook stoves and cedar logs and washpans. But the people in the big world keep their minds tied right up to things only the things are finer-they are marble floors and magnificent restau- rants and houses on what they call the best streets At meals there are all kinds of little spoons and forks, md they think to use a wrong one is SoDl<.thing dreadful.
 "They have certain ways of doing everything, and just certain times for doing them, and if you do a wrong thing at right time or a right thing at q wrong time it shows you are from the west.
 Miss Sellimer is so nice to me. told her right at the start that didhT know anything about the big world, and she teaches me everything. I'd be more comfortable if she could for get about my saving her life, but she never can, and is so grateful it makes me feel that I'm enjoying all this on false pretenses, for you know my find ing her was only an accident. Her mother is very pleasant to me-much more so than to her. Bill, you know how you speak to your horse, some times, when it acts contrary? That's the way Miss Sellimer speaks to her mother at times. However they don't seem very well acquainted with each other. Of course if they'd lived to- in hov learned to tell each other their thoughts and plans, but out in the big world there isn't time for anything except to dress and go.
 'I'm learning to dress I used to think 8 girl could do that to please herself but no; the dresses are a thousand times more important than the people inside them. It wouldn't matter how wise you are if your dress is wrong, nor would it matter how foolish if your dress is like anybody else's. A person could be independent and do as she pleased, but she wouldn't be in society, because they don't know anything about being independent; they want to be governed by their things. A poor person isn't cut of from society be cause he hasn't money, but because he doesn't know how to deal with high things, not having practiced amongst them. It isn't because society people have lots of money that they stick to- gether, but because all of them, know what to do with the little forks and spoons.
 "It is like the dearest, jolIiest kind of game to me to be with these people and say just what they say and like what they like and act as they act and that's the difference between me and them ;sit's not game to them; it's deadly earnest They think they're Mv- ingi
 Miss Sellimer is witty and talented and from the way she treats me I know she has tender heart. And her mother is a perfect wonder Of a man ager, and never makes mistakes except such as happen to be the fad of the hour And MT. Edgerton Compton could be splendAl, for he seems to know everything.
 What they are working at now is all they expectfto work at as long as they live-and it takes awfully hard work to keep tip with their set. They call it 'kedping in the swim and let me tell you what it reminds me of-a strong young steer out in a tank us ing all the strength he has just to keep . OA CCR aIAoi fNAlS4 AA4SlSe%A O1 SW4A41- ming to shore: and going somewhere. Society people don't go anywhere; they use all their energy staying right where they are, and if one of them loses grip and goes under goodness!
 'I know what Mrs. Senimer has set her heart on because she has already begun instructing me in her ideals. She wants her daughter to marry a rich man, and Mir. Edgerton Compton isn't rich, he only looks like he is. Mrs Se1liper feels that. she's terribly poor