The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-09-10
$4,000 JOB Oh
FARM GIVEN TO
STEN0GRAPHER
Mary Smith of Chicago, Blue
Eyed Orphan. Selected for
the PaaNnursts.
GLAD SHE'S FOUND HOME
Declares Fact She viii Have Some.
enc t. Care for Her Counts More
Than Money-Cets Warm
Welcome on the Farm.

Chicago.-Mary Smith wanted
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
han the average girl of her age she
made many friends-but she found no
home. And then she left school and
vent 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 cog in a vast
automaton known as the city," said
Mary Smith, smiling with bright eyes.
And | made $12 week"
Happy in Thoughts Of Home.
Click-click-clck 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 a home. a 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 were
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 10 Tired Of the City.
Il don't know why they took me-
she said. Maybe it's because l want
ed to go 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. l
don't care very much about that. In
fact l would rather not sign that con-
tract 1t might give me a mercenary
view of the situation. l don't want
money. I'm leaving a SIP Job in the
city that | fought four years to get,
and Mr.. Pankhurst is going to pay only
three dollars a week.
But think-Ill have somebody to
look on me as a daughter and some
body to look upon as my parents. I'll
work for them Certainly, can wash
dishes and scrub and cook, and l love
horses. I'll do all that gladly And
I'll get up early"
Five 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.
fee as ii she had Just stepped of
Michigan avenue. A pellow waist, a
black dress and black cape and a
black and white toque completed her
attire. Her small feet were incased
III llAy anu oltOSSlACI DUO
weighed at guess about 120 pounds.
Fond Of ooIfing, Too.
ooh, 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. "Golfing." she
smiled. Il love to golf. l know l
won't golf in the country-but l
won't mind that a Bit"
She stopped talking suddenly. A
reporter asked the question:
Are you engaged?"
Mary Smith didn't answer for a mo-
molt. Then she smiled again and
said, Perhaps" A volley of questions
followed. What about him." What
will he say" "WM you be able to
leave him?" To all Of which Mary
Smith said. me. 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 10 no romance like home.
To have 4 home to 60 to-"
what about one Of your own"
81 was saying" persisted Mary |
Smith. ito have . home-and two PEG
pie in the world happy because you
are there-that's the greatest 70
nance
They'll Like Her, says ofie,al.
Mark Crawford OF the United States
bureau beckoned her |
aside.