Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1915-09-24
$4,000 JOB ON
FARM GWEN TO
STENOGRAPHER
Mary Smith Of Chicago, Blue.
Eyed Orphan, Selected for
the PankhurStS.
GLAD SHE'S FOUND HOME
Declares Fact She viii Have Some.
one to Care for Her Counts More
Than Money-Gets Warm
Welcome on the Farm.

Welcome on the Farm.
Chicago-Mary Smith wanted a
home. She came to Chicago six years
ago from Wisconsin. She was eighteen
then and an orphan. She went to the
Wendell Phillips high school for two
years and because she was unusually
good looking and more serious minded
than the average girl of her age she
made many friends-but she found no
home. And then she left school and
went to work. Every morning for
four years she rode downtown from
her boarding house at $3.50 Kimbark
avenue, busted her typewriter,
Strengthened her hair that remained
golden even in the city and smiled
good morning to her various BOSSES
But she had no home. There was no
one who cared how we'll she sang or
played the piano or how tired she was
or what her dreams were made of.
Il was just sort of a cog in vast
automaton known as the CITY," said
Mary Smith, smiling with bright eyes.
"And made $12 week."
Happy in Thoughts of Home.
Click-click-click went the cameras.
Mary Smith laughed She swung her
heels from the edge of the table on
which she sat, looked out through the
window into Wabash avenue and
laughed again. For Mary Smith had
found home, real one She was
going away from her typewriter that
needed busting every morning, her
bosses who needed smiles and the
vast automaton that needed nothing
and in which her typewriter keys we're
like cogs that clicked away forever.
Out of the thousands of girls who
answered uncle Jimmy" Pankhurst's
application for girl to be "a daughter
to him and inherit $4,000 when he
died." Mary Smith was the one Sc
lected.
She Is Tired of the City.
II don't know why they took me-"
she said. Maybe it's because want
ed to 60 more than all the others. I'm
tired. 1t gets tiresome in the city.
Every day is the same. And there's
nobody that matters. Why am /
going? No, it's not the $4,000. /
don't care very much about that. In
fact would rather not sign that con-
tract. It might give me mercenary
view of the situation. don't want
money. I'm leaving $12 job in the
city that fought four years to get,
and Mr.. Pankhurst is going to pay only
three dollars week.
"But think-I1l have somebody to
look on me as daughter and some
body to look upon as my parents. I'll
work for them Certainly, can wash
dishes and scrub and cook, and love
horses. I'll do all that gladly. And
I'll get up early"
give o'clock" prompted a young
woman reporter who had herself ap-
piled for the job.
"Then I'll be able to see the sun
RISE" smiled Mary Smith.
Again she laughed, this time with a
catch in her voice. She looked as she
sat on the table in the immigration Of
flee as if she had just stepped off
Michigan avenue. A pellow waist, a
black dress and a black cape and a
black and white toque completed her
attire. Her small feet were incased
in tiny pumps and altogether she
weighed at a guess. about 12O pounds.
Fond Of coIflns, Too.
"Oh, I'm not sick of the city," she |
said Of her own accord. 1T really |
seems strange that l should talk so
freely to you-but I'm so happy. The
hard work? Oh, look at my hands,"
She showed two miniature palms that |
were slightly calloused. Cooling" she
smiled II love to golf. know | |
won't golf in the country-but
won't mind that bit"
She stopped talking suddenly A
reporter asked the question:
"Are you engaged?"
Mary Smith didn't answer for mo-
ment. Then she smiled again and
said, Perhaps" A volley of questions
followed. What about him." What
will he say?" "Will you be able to
leave him?" To all of which Mary
Smith said, "No. He won't mind. He'll
wait-perhaps. don't want to get
married A girl shouldn't marry until
she is twenty-eight, think"
Perhaps you are leaving because Of
this romance" was suggested
But Mary Smith smiled again. "Per-
haps have romance" she said, her
eyes gazing intently at her questioner.
"But there is no romance like home.
To have home to go to-"
What about one of your own"
II was saying" persisted Mary
Smith, ito have a home-and two peo-
pie in the world happy because you
are there-that's the greatest ro-
They'll Like Her, Says ofielaI.
Mark Crawford OF the United States
bureau beckoned, her
aside.