Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-12-16
Rose Terry's
Scholarship
By E. DUNBAR.
H..~>eeesScS>cSc<SS
CfScsSaI,SShv Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate

rave the "Rose and the Book
W. r.ise funds needed to send stu
" 70 Tatum Women's college, there
1,ore those among the citizens OF Ia
..,n, who figured it out that the WON
nod adopted a roundabout way OF
,a,no two hundred dollars. Old 81
nDaa,ev actually went to figuring
nsont II. and the afternoon before the
osormance in the new theater ne
ont as his opinion that it had
s sost the folk Of Tatum some Thousand
so,,ors in cold cash to raise that two
hundred. - .,m,,v o,ore
:. had cost nearly twenty-five dollars
~ conservative estimate. Jenny, SIS
dougbter. was taking minor part. She
nod had to get her own costumes. Not
counting the things that she had had
n make, but could use later, these cos
t,,mas had cost her eight dollars and
.oroptv.three cents. Then she had had
+o Give ND two evening music lessons
for evening rehearsals and Jenny got
dollar q lesson. That came to over
ten dollars.
Tben there were tickets for all the
Bradley family and taxi to take Jen-
nv to the dress rehearsal the night be-
yore as It had rained, and Jenny had
haen so busy over the rehearsals that
She hadn't been able to help her moth
or so they had had to get in sewing
woman three days to help with the
spring sewing And so 1t had, come
altogether by careful figuring to
600 * This was barring the possible
necessity of taxi to take Jenny to the
p,av that night, and 1t looked like
rain. as well as the probability that
Jenny would be all played out after
ward and would need doctor and
medicine.
What 81 Bradley was arguing was
that II wasn't worth while. If the
folks of Tatum wanted to give schol.
arship, through the Browning society
they should be assessed just so much
Then there wouldn't have to be any
play and he wouldn't have to &c
through the ordeal Of sitting through
II.
Roger MaplewoOd, Mr.. Bradley's
companion in arms, added his quot
Of argument against such perform
ances. 1t would cost even more thar
Mr.. Bradley had figured. For he knew
1t for fact that the WentwOrths wer'
going to be quite bit out Of pocket
Jim Wentworth was going to take ;
part and at the last minute he hat
been called away on business. ID
couldn't throw the thing over the las
minute that way. So he had to tele
graph to some fellow he knew, laugh
English in some college somewher
and knew Browning from A to 2, AM
get him on to take his place. This ha'
meant Jim Wentworth had had to pa
this professors carfare, and that tn
Wentworths would have to have com
pany dinners. No, 1t wasn't wort
while. According to Roger Maplewoo
there wasn't any reason why the cit
zens of Tatum should give scholar
ships anyway. If girl hadn't enoug
money to get an education she coul
90 to work In factory or somebody
kitchen. College educations were 70
children of the well-to-do, not for poo
folk.
This discussion took place aboar
the local trolley car of Tatum and
was audible to the few passengers b.
cause Roger Maplewood and 81 Brat
ley always sat on opposite sides Of tn
car and threw their remarks back an
forth.
Rose Terry, going from high scho'
to the farmhouse where she worke,
was one Of the passengers. This We
unfortunate. For Rose Terry was II
one out Of the seventeen or eightee
who had applied for the SCHOLARSHIP
who had been selected by the Brow
Ing club as the beneficiary She W,
twenty-six and settled. That w,
what finally decided the matter.
other words she wouldn't do what u
appreciatlve beneficiaries OF the club
bounty had done before-just x
through college and then marry son
one and waste her education. TT
cluD wanted to be sure that II tn,
helped girl to go through college 81
ing afterwards. II she was the XII
mat would get married, why was
the education7
Rose Terry was twenty-five the ye
before when she went to work with
FARMER In return for her board nj
then started In ut the high school, 81
had been able In one year to make ,
Tor the neglected education OF her gl
hood and prepare herself for collee
She had not applied for the schola
snip. She had expected to go on wor
Ing with the farmers family, But q
committee had heard of her and HI
persuaded her to make her nppllcatio
She had been selected and now 4
committee had asked her to sit In Z
WASlllNGTON.--Pres Har
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