White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-18

In St. Louis, Mo-, way out in the
south side of the town and in the
heart of a modest district. stands a
particular apartment house. 1t is
like hundreds of its neighbors up
and down Minnesota avenue. 1t is
two stories high. red brick. stands on
a terrace a few feet above the street,
and the observer with an unorna-
mented front that radiates rigid re-
spectability. The ten steps and mar
white enameled brick columns on
the perehlike porch show they have
been scrubbed.
The two windows in the first apart
ment reflect the silent darkness of
a seldom used and old fashioned
front ROOM" The shades are drawn
to a few inches below the top bar of
the lower sash with mathematical
accuracy. The lace curtains, primly
white, are most precisely divided.
There is the home of an old man,
his wife, and their daughter, a steno-
grapher and the mainstay of the lit
tie four room home. Their story is
one of the short and simple annals
of the poor. The only fortune they
nave ever had was misfortun.
Their success has been extremely
modest.
The old folks are proud of their
dutiful daughter and hopeful for her
two brothers, who are away from
home engaged in independent pur-
suits.
The careful management of affairs
by the mother and the simple tastes
of the household have made life COM
Portable and conservatively happy
enough good clothes to dress up"
on Sunday, enough to spare for pic
ture shows, magazines, and to put
away a mite every week. They have
hoped for more.
How the Idea Came to Her.
iltO thl6 oaAhS iOAAC III WY
story you are reading today carries
the news that the daughter is to re-
ccive $4,000 in cash, like a dia-
mond falling from the sky.
There will be a thrill in these lines
for the girl, Miss Ida Damon of 1871
Minnesota avenue, st. Louis, The 10
year old father, Albert. and the in
dustrious mother, Caroline, will have
to spread the paper on the table by
the window back in the snug, warm
kitchen and read these lines over
and over again to be sure that they
are really true.
1t is a romance of true and humble
life that took its beginning in fiction
and grew into fact.
One day last August Miss Damon
went to Chicago on a visit. At a
Sixty-third street motion picture
house she saw a flaming herald an
nouncing 1.-The Million Dollar Mys-
terry" She passed by.
Weeks later, back at her type
writer in st. Louis, n of a long
battery of stenographers in the sky
scraper Office of a big roofing con-
Germ, she was set at the task of
checking advertisements in the news
papers. She came upon the an
nouncement that a prize of $4,000
was being offered for a solution of
The Million Dollar Mystery" the
solution to carry the suggestion for
a plot with which to build the final
episode of the film series drama.
Reporter Finds Her Skeptical
The girl had an idea. She fol-
lowed the picture for weeks. Then
one day she wrote the idea into
Tribune.
After the judges reached their de-
cision a reporter was sent to
St. Louis to hunt out this young
m and, without taking her into
confidence, to make a report.
Inquiry at the prim little house in
Minnesota n met polite frigid-
ity. The old folks were indeed care
full of what they might have to say to
a strange young man asking about
their daughter. Her business adj
dress was impaired reluctantly and
with an implied injunction.
'tShe say TO call her up un-
less it il something Of the greatest
Importance. She doesn't like to be
interrupted. Better come back here
To sae her."