The Dolores star., 1920-08-13
MICE AND A
PUMPKIN
COACH
Bv CRAWFORD LUTTRELL

II
D. c. iy4V BY Mc,tur, N-~suauur 81 Ga1entrb
well. my hrsI day at the Office Is
over. and | can honestly say ihaI Ell
ioypd H." Nan announced To the auN-
icusly nqutriug two who turned To
welcome her al the sound ui her h"!
ia the lock. She tossed OF her sInhrt
black sailor hat and sat down On
uaSSOCk by her mother. Il ieci 80 I'M
portant. and although | don't knu"
much yet. know that Will learn
um giving my entire time and thought
to it. have no silly sentimental ideas
about my boss failing In love with me.
Fortunately. he is bald. fat and forty,
and his wife rings up every TWO or
three hours TO tell him something
about the kids or to remind him to go
by the BAKERS for bread. Why don I
women attend to their own business
as men dO?"
"PShaw - sighed fifteen-year-old
Ruth. 81 hoped that there would be
young man in the office. g"od-inuNin-
and rich. and that he would come
tIpuilu On SUlitNN anu lhhf w. az
out riding to the country
Nan looked up NJ her and wink"d.
"Perhaps | can find that agreeable
sort of boss next time look for
work" Then To her mother: 81 am
glad that things are just rs they are.
Personally don't believe in mixing
business and pleasure and in drawing
u weekly pay envelope for time spent
IN trying to get husband. Do you.
muddie. dear2"
"When the right man comes along
vou'll know it, Nan, whether you ARE
ut a dance or buying chops al butch
rr's. | believe that there is fate
Guarding these ISSUES OF life Perhaps
I sounds foolish for nm old woman
like me TO say such things. but it Is
one of my pet theories. grounded in in
Vulnerable cases of fact that | have
observed"
II don't agree with you. mother"
said the sophisticated fifteen year-old.
when | grow up am going to pick
out the heSt-loOking. richest man in
town and set about making him fail
in love with me. Getting married Is
every w0man's first business in life
Why. already | am encouraging Billy
MCMahHn. His father owns plumb
ing place, | know, hnt he Is making
money so fast that in two or three
wears from now the daily papers will
quote him about everything. calling
1 .....,
Blood don't count any more. Why.
nobody but the ten-year census man
ever asks about your grandmother"
"Oh, wisdom in short skirts"
gasped Nan. IT'S hard to say such
things TO mother, Ruthie. You know
1t shocks her"
you might just as well know how
| feel about such things. OF course.
| expect TO go to work Just as soon
as ! leave high school and help cheer
fully so that you will have most of
your salary to spend on yourself. Nan.
Mother has her little income and may
be by that time prices will take n
tumble and we can manage better than
we do now"
Mrs. Taylor laughed bit shakiIy.
Then she drew a letter from her dress
pocket. 81 have some astonishing
news, girlies. Nan. you can resign
tomorrow"
"Resignl Why?"
Your father bought some mining
stock many years ago and we Just CON
sidered the money lost, but today
while you We're at the office and Ruth
was at school strange lawyer called
and told me that-that we are TO
have three hundred dollars a month
from the investment. | wanted to ring
both of you and tell you to run right
Eome, but | saved the news for n
happy surprise tonight"
Ruth threw her books on the floor
and began sort of Indian war dance.
chanting werdly as she circled The
TWO. Nan sat there as if she had
been turned into stone.
Aren't yOu glad. Nan, dear?" asked
her mother. bending over to touch her
I'm just staggered. stunncd,s but |
Am NOT gong TO give up my position"
"NhY, child. we can live beautiful
" on what have and that three hIn
lr"d and send Ruth to college. too"
81 know" said Nan, seriously at
nearly killed me to even think of 90
ing into mans office to earn nv own
livelihood. All those months that I
studied at business college were like n
nightmare to me, but | conquered the
feeling and now won't give it up. }
feel capable. | like getting up and
going out every day. like the hmm
OF the office, people coming and going,
all of it. 1t fascinates me-"
"fll bet there is man in that Of.
iice that you like" exploded Ruth
suddenly.
Nobody but Mr.. Henderson, and he
doesn't look as If he had ever been
young enough to think of romance "
explained Nan haughtily.
Il thought you said the firm was
Henderson & Henderson, daughter
at Is. He has a brother or a nephew
or somebody who does all of the out
Of-tOwn business | huyen't avian .oon