The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-04-17

his room with the other costume ac-
! cessorics that he was getting together
for the great play.
Caste lines were but loosely drawn
in TruXdale. The minister's
had felt no hesitancy in marrying the
| son Of the grocery on the corner' inc
young doctor felt it an 10 know
/ the daughter of old DObbs, VINO drove
the station wagon. Things hid 10 DC
hat way for. aside from the college
contingent, there were only iour OF
FIVE hundred inhabitants In the village,
and to the boys who went hrouS tne
gristmfll of education there 4 pretty
girl was a pretty girl whether she was
the daughter of the woman who did
their laundry work OF the Oh
the college president.
So Clarice higgins came In for her
share Of the college fun-ltttle bright
eyed, slender Clarice, who had been
known TO every swcettOothed boy IN
college as the dispenser Of his tayorite
brand OF soda water or sundae. Cha
ice had all the intense ~self-rcspect ana
INDEPENDENCE of the true farmers
daughter that she was. And 1t was
quite rs necessary Tor her to receive
formal Introduction from the boys who
wished 10 converse with her over the
straws aud glasses as it would have
been for the daughter Of the college
; president.
But C!arice had cherished ambition.
There was not enough scope for her
Imagination in the task of soda dispen.
scr. There was limitations in the ar
tistic possibilities even Of u raspberry
dream OF a peach delight. So when an
apprentice was needed at Crindles
millinery shop she left the fountain on
a days notice and told her plans OF
changed career only TO two or three
OF her most loyal admirers at the fouil'
tain.
Most loyal Of these was Blair Tuttle,
and he could but feel u satisfaction In
J knowing that hereafter those bright
eyes Of hers would shine only for
naughty Mrs. Crindle and her other
assistants or the occasional women
shoppers who came into try on the new
millinery.
81 am SO perfectly happy tonight"
Clarice told Blair that night when he
called at her boarding house to take
her 10 The movies. that single source
OF evening diversion in Truxdale. The
most wonderful thing has happened.
My hat-my very own hat-that / work.
ed on so hard has been sold. And 1t
is the only one that brought the price
marked. The women in Truxdale III
ways bargain so that Mrs. Crindle
marks them much higher than she eX-
poets t. sell them. Mrs. Crindle
didn't think that hat | made was SO
very wonderful. but she let me put
It in the window with some others she
had made and mine was the first one
bought. ! didn't SEQ the young lady
that bought 1t. but the girl who waited
on her said she looked like q fashion
plato. with a hat that must have come
from New York. Isn't that wonderful?
D., you suppose l am going to make
uaIto u success OF millinery? Perhaps
before long l shall have q little shop
OF my own"
70. the time being, Blair futile
thought only of himself and the Ell
feet on his own plans that this inde-
pend, nee would mem. To Eeli the
ruth, Blair had more than once before
tried 10 get his courage up to tell the
ht~sh.sDirited little girl that she was
part OF his own p!aus for happiness
and that in the career he was about 10
start after his graduation from college
rs reeded her encouragement more
than anything.
"But, Clarice, ! don't want you to be
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