The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-30
Earning Her
$37.83
o0
Copyright. 1918, by the Mcclure Newsna.
per Syndicate.)
By JANE OSBORN

Copyright. 1918. by the Mcclure Newsna.
per Syndicate.)
When Stanley Ashton agreed to give
thirty thousand dollars for the work
OF the ambulance corps by the student
body Of the college from which he
some dozen years before had taken his
degree, on the condition that the stu
dent body would raise like amount,
ne little knew what medley Of unus-
ual activities he was starting within
the dormitories Of that college.
i know it's going to be hard for the
Students" he told the dean Of the col.
lege when he made the proposal, "but
the ambulance corps needs sixty thou.
sand dollars II their work Is to be
worth while. I'm not a millionaire,
and l guess 1t Is as hard for me to
get that thirty thousand dollars to-
gether as it win be for each of the stu
dents to do his or her share toward
raising the difference"
The dean was figuring on the back
OF an envelope as Stanley Ashton was
talking to him.
YES" he said, having finished his
little sum in division. There are 799
students enrolled this year-about 400
girls and the rest men. That will mean
about $37.S3 student, as reckon 1t.
In my announcement / shall suggest
that each student try to raise that
sum. 1t will give zest to their endeav.
ors If each student knows just what Is
expected of him."
so the announcement was made, and
for the weeks that followed each stu.
dent Of the college went around more
bent on extracting the sum of S37.S3
from his financial endowments-and
most of the students Of this co-educa-
tional institution were not possessed
Of an Overadequate allowance-than
on securing passing grades in their
classroom work. Dances, athletics,
theatricals-all the usual side interests
of the college-were subservient to
this desperate struggle on the part of
the students, each to earn the allotted
quota. The trouble was they were all
doing 1t at once. Little efforts to ex-
tract the money from each other by
backing shoes, pressing clothes, darn
ing socks, ETC., were rather useless,
since no student had the amount to
pay for such services while each was
saving his funds for the quota. Fudge
was drug on the market, for who
had money to buy fudge?
Margaret Benton achieved quite an
honor for herself among her friends
by announcing that she would give up
her Christmas holiday vacation. She
had received check for $50 from
home to cover the expenses of her trip
and, with her parents sanction, she
renounced this pleasure so that she
might thereby save the larger part OF
her quota. There was $17S3 to be
earned. By going without fudge sup
plies herself for three weeks she eeked
out her funds till she had but $16.7S
to be earned Then she earned rs cents
by selling one pair Of old rubbers, two
old textbooks, the gold tips from two
outworn fountain pens and last win
ter's hat. Thirty cents she saved b!
walking downtown and back on three
occasions. There then remained S15,7(
to be earned, and there her fund re
NAMED.
Her allowance was exhausted ant
there was nothing to save, and ever,
means of earning money seemed to b
In use already by some Of the 1913.
On certain gray day, when she ha
INDUCED herself to the extent o
using cents carfare to go to colleC
the pittance that the old-clothes deale
was to allow her for her old hat an
rubbers, she sat crowded in the SUI
face car-so crowded, in fact, that sh
could not help but hear the convers'
ton of two well-overcoated men b.
side her.
'But what are you going to do abor
it?" the younger of the two aske'
I've done all / could to comply wit
the request of the department
agriculture. / had all my fields cult
waited on our summer place, and the
couldn't get men to harvest ther
l have had to pay So day for ms
to repair the hotbed frames, and no
I've had the beds planted to gree
vegetables In an effort to do my .
towards keeping the local market su
piled with green goods. l can't 6
anyone to transplant the Seeding
Did get a man for 80 cents an hot
but unless some one watched hi
every minute he soldiered."
Margaret heard the man sitting wi
him suggest that it was more sat
factory to contract the work. Then
didn't matter If the men did soldier
But If there aren't any men to
the work, what am to do?"
Margaret had only vague idea
what hotbed looked like, but son
how the task sounded easy. She
quietly beside the young man in
warm overcoat and allowed herself
De carried beyond the street where
would have got of to return to
dormitory. For several miles more
rode, until in a dreary country lane
The outskirts of the CITY the man