El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-06-30
Jane McLean's Fascinating Series
Girl Workers Who Win Out
The Newsgiirl Finds Her Patience Rewarded

ARGERY was a very little girl
M She wasn't really old enough
70 make money and besides
that she was lame Margery had an
older sister who worked in a factory
and brought home 50 a week Margery's
big brother made s12. but he was a man
and was going TO marry as soon as he
reached the Is mark. And so Margery
sold papers to help out OF course she
didn't make much. and It was very
firing standing so long IN one place,
and sometimes it rained. and in spite
OF the great shawl that her mother
wrapped her IN, It wasn't very pleasant.
Now, this might be made into & reg
ular fairy story II Margery. the won
derful heroine had golden curls and
wide blue eyes, and a rich man -srns
along ana thought she might be inst
the girl 10 adopt and take home. But
as this Is a story that might happen to
any little girl who is Door and in earn
est about making money. IL would not
be right to make up beautiful adven-
turers that might never happen.
You see Margery wasn't al an p-etfv
she was too thin She was small for
nine years old, too. and looked hardly
more than seven or eight She had a
wizened little face and her eyes seemed
she wore in brace that the entire
family had saved up TO buy, and Mar
gerys hair was not golden-it was
tangly brown.
The one feature Of her entire face
that was really beautiful was her
and patient It looked like a brave
little mouth, and II was brave. because
Margery had suffered a great deal OF
pain in her short life
Days when she went to school the
other children made fun of her. She
could never run and play games as they
could, and so she had no friends. Every
minute that Margery could save from
her work she spent in reading She
read anything, even the newspapers, al
though the hardly understood that
There was a corner that BIargerv
called her very own, where she stood
TO make her trades. She could call out
the different names Just like a boy and
sometimes she did very well The pic
ture OF a little lame girl standing on
the corner selling papers may sound
palmetto to read about, but in truth
she was hardly noticed by the great
business crowd that swept past every
day
She learned not TO expect kindly
glances and 10 accept her pennies with !
the nonchaiance Of the neWsboy who /
makes his papers a business and never
regards the crowds as possessing
hearts It's harder Tor a girl to do this Z
because girl is always looking for 1
romance, even the smallest girl and
when a little girl likes to read she i'm 4
AGNES beautiful things about people 7
that she wishes might come true even 4
If she knows they can't
One night il rained hard and Mar
gerry leaned stOlidly against the brick I
wall on the windy corner and called 4
her papers Justify The rain droDs
rolled off the fringe of the shawl and
dripped into her eyes and she was a
sorry enough little spectacle. but she
stuck al her post Every night at this
time an old man stopped and bought
two papers from Margery- He was a
cross looking man, and MarEery never
ventured even a look Of him when he
took the papers from her Tonight he
was late and Margery had saved the
two papers for him She saw him com
Ing when he was quite a way off. and
she took few steps forward and said
timidly:
T saved them for you. Here they
are. sir"
The old man stopped and looked At
Aargery's rain wet face with eyes that
she could hardly see, so hidden were
hey under bushy eyebrows
Didn't think you'd be ont tonight"
he said gruffly, so I bought my pa
1ers from a boy up the street"
Margery fell back. "Oh." she vouch-
iafed. I'm always here. I thought you
we're my customer.
swell, well. your customer. eh, wei,