New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-29

the first guy "A foreigner that come
along and had 5000 to his name.
Didn't Like the Family
-Four of my sisters had married
They married young and had lot OF
kids. | wasn't like that ] was Ameri-
can, because | got to know American
girls when was pushin' plugs IN Nan
sas CITY. | was different from my
folks. So many Of 'em lived togeethe
and they wasn't clean. They did not
have no education. ncr nuthin,"
She told how she had taught hel
father / write his own name so tha'
he nigh, pass the civil service ex-
aminations and become a night watch
man for he city, the position, she says
he now holds.
"Why, when | come back to hansas
City the old man wanted me to pay on
the mortgage on his house-S4bO. Wen
/ was willing TO do that. but ! SAID u
would have to be put in my name. lie
says, Nav, you put 1t IN the name o,
your two younger brothers. buI
worked for that money and didh
want TO just give 1t away.
81 took the kids out and bought EN-
some new clothes. ] done everything
could. But. say, they was different
from me. | couldn't stand my folks
honest. ] amt never goin' back to
Kansas City. ] don't want to ever sec
them folks Of mine again.
Father Spilled the Beans
Gee. everything was going so grand,
People liked me and / was meetln'
sweils and everything. And then he
had to come along and spill the beans.
Say. it was mean of him to crab II
when / was just gettin' in right,
wasn't It?
~ amt no Kansas City girl. I'm
Alaskan. have lived up there and |
love il. II amt bunk. An | am going
back lust as soon as | can get the
money"
For several months Louise remained
in Kansas City, living after the first
three weeks with an American family
she knew. She went to school-the
Spaldng Business College. Her life
in Alaska made her as one apart. She
was elected vice president Of the
schools "literarv society" and talked
with gusto on Inside the Arctic Cir
Gle"
Six weeks ago, with few hundred
dollars left in her poke" Louise went
TO Chicago. She lived with "a lady
who run a beauty parlor" and her
husband. Only Sl20 of the original
81 600 was left when the girl arrived
at the McAlpin. Now she has 500.
"Whattamf gonna do? Git out? You
bet. Tomorrow morning. Me payin' four
funny? III 90 70 a boarding house and
then go back to pushing plugs, guess,
till | save enough coin to get back to
Alaska.
"Say, I got letters from swells. Peo-
pie wanted TO meet me and wanted TO
give me Jobs. had one offer at $3.50 a
week in vaudeville. That's more than
the old man could make in a year
"Why. | was gonna make a millionaire
outer him. / was gonna make him my
manager and put a chain Of nuggets
around his neck and lead him up and
down Broadway. | was gonna plant
nuggets around his cabin"
She showed the days mail. There
were more offers-one TO represent a
medical firm" which deals in a honeyed
cure-all. Another was postal, signed
"Alkali Ike"
"Can that stuff about Alaska" il
read. "You used 20 throw sinkers in
Chicago. Beat it back to the beans"
Invitation from Philadelphia
Another from a woman professor
Of physical education" at Temple Uni
versity, Philadelphia, urged visit
Still another came. apparently from the
heart Of Newark's little group of seri-
Gus thinkers" Ii was a gem.
1.-THE Silent Watcher hangs over my
bed" said the writer. at means little
to many people, but understand it.