The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-19

nistted TO wear SIX dress Ia tho
attefnoon provided Il Wis hish
isecked They eere addFe sed a
inf! o. Mss 10 IistihgIiiSii then,
noni regular servants, and they
ate their meals IN their sitting
room brought up on 4 tray ~
one Of the maids. They carried
the keys 70 the'suphly closets; had
the hiring Of !esb important Ser.
wants, paid OF household bills, kept
track Of arrival and departure a.
guests and. whore that work wax
not done by the butler, took Sc.
structions for meals from their eiii.
ployers.
Latitta's ambition was to be q
housekeeper. SHE thought with
sattStaeuon Of herself ns.a middle
aged person In stiff black siti
trock, eating In solitary grandeur
IN her private sitting room, But.
she could not become DO impof.,
ant Q peTsonnge all N one day sht
must work up to such heights. TIL !
fudlments Of housekeeping sh
had learned from her service VIII
the Dawsons. The flouflshes she
must learn by experience IN more
pretentious household.
She had definitely decided to 70
to the city and apply at an EN-.
ployment agency for a position as
Ia housekeeper, In a less preten-
tious establishment than that de-
scribed in tho book TO begin with.
But she must be able honestly to
say that She had been 4 house
keeper-1ot hired girl.
Apparently she gained nothing
BY her petition to the DawSon
mon. difficult as Il was 10 deliver.
Mr.. Dawson, Sr., simply hadn /
taken her seriously. and Tom as
usual answered IN an Indefinite
sort Of scared manner Even since
lie had been working on that cor
respondonce course be had soer-
ed preoccupied. Once several yars
ago he had taken her for occaSton.
al walks and had driven her to
town, but apparently his ambition
to become q scientific farmer lef;
no thoughts for Lefty, "the hired
girl. !"
Letitia's darning needle flew
back and forth as she sat by the
reading lamp, and once large
tear splashed on one OF Tom
Dawson's heavy wooden socks that
she was darning. She rose to re-
tire when the clock struck half.
past s. and on some pretext or
other Tom followed her to tho
kitchen, where she went to get
her little lamp to light her to
bed.
81 want to talk to you, Let
IT," Tom said, barely looking at
her. "Stay III your room until
father has gone to bed, then, come
down quietly"
Lefty went about lighting her
lamp and said only after n loitg
pause, IAN right, Tom, ri
come back"
a half hour later Tom and Let
" met in the living room and
Tom led the way to the little side
porch, whore, though the air was
chilly, they could talk with no
fear Of being heard. K.
tits about your wanting to be
called a housekeeper," Tom be-
gan. II don't blame you mot want
ing to be called hired GIRL but
father doesn't reilly mean to hurt
your feelings. I'D have made mat
ItefsJdifferent from what they DIRE
long ago II 1t had, been any use
trying 80, Instead, l made
plans and part Of the plan was 10
take this course in agriculture. I
came into that money from moth
er last spring when I was twenty
one. I'm going to finish my cor
respondence. course and next win
ter take time to take the shorter
course in agriculture at the State
college. Father has agreed. Then
Til come back and buy a farm Of
my own; and when I do that
Lefty, II You were Mrs. Tom Daw-
son 1t wouldn't be SO bad as be-
ing Dawson's hired, girl, would
it?" @
There was a trying pause and
Lefty kept her head turned from
Toms.
Lefty, l love you" Tom said
with more bravery than he knew
he possessed, q, know you have
ambition and didn't want to be call.
cd a hired girl, but I've had am.
billions too. / don't want to be an
old.fashtoned, laundering farmer.
That's why I've worked 80 hard on
that correspondence course. / want
to marry YOU
but I'd have to love you"