The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-11-16
THE A..
BOLTON GIRLS :
PROPOSITION :
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

Us After that We knew that she was
at least highly improbable II not en-.
tirely impossible But hen we might
have expected as much from a girl who
called herself Maybelle. There is.
hoHever, this much TO be said In May
bellies favor she was persistent. She
did not let 20 till Il thunderedi We
could have stood II well enough II she
had limited her campaign for a job on
the paper 10 an occasional call at the
Office. But she had a fiendish instinct
which told her who were the friends
We liked most TO oblige the banker,
for instance. who carried our over
drafts, the leading advertiser. the
chairman Of the printing committee Of
the town council-and she found ways
10 make them ask IL we couldn't do
something for Miss Bolton. She could
teach school indeed. she had a place
In the academy. But she loathed
sch~ool-teaching. She had always felt
that, IL she could once get a start. she
could make a name for herself.
She had written something that she
called "A Critique on Hamlet" which
she submitted TO us, and was deeply
pained when we told her that we Didn't
care for editorial matter that what
our paper needed was the names Of
the people in our own country town
and county, printed as many times a
day or a week or a month as they
could be put into type. We tried to
tell her that more important 10 us thar
the influence Of the Celtic element on
our national life and literature was
the fact that John Jones OF Lebo-
that IS TO say, red John, as dlstin.
guished from black John-or Jones the
timer, or Jones of the Possum Holler
settlement was in town with a load Of
hay. other papers," we explained
carefully, while she looked as sympa-
thetic and intelligent as a collie, 'othar
papers might be interested In the
radio-activity Of uranium X: they
might are 10 print articles on the
psychological phenomena OF mobs"-
10 which she snapped z agreement
with her eyes-"others, with entire
- ~ hNAFH ttAEhA Hf AAlEINSitU IN lIl0F~ /
ganic evolution'-and she cheeped
YES, YES" with feverish intensity
but in our little local paper we cared
only for the person who could tell our
readers with the most dellcacy and
precision how many spoons Mrs.
Worthington had to borrow for her
party, who had the largest number Of
finger bowls In town, what Mrs. Conk-
lin paid for the broilers she served nj
her party last February, and the name
Of the country woman who raised
them, and why II was that ali the
Tomen failed 70 make Jennie's recipe
for sunshine cake work when they
IL" such are the things that
Interest our people. and he. she or II
who can turn ~ two or three columns
a day OF items setting forth these
things In a good-natured way, so that
the persons mentioned win only grin
wonder who told II. is good for ten
dollars Of our money every Saturday
night.
Maybelle thought Il was such inter.
astlng work, and her eyes hoated in
ears Of happiness az the thought Of
such JOY. IL she could only have a
II would be just lovely
grand, and she knew she could
10 IL Something IN her lnnermost
'oul thrilled with a naturalization
made her culver with anticipation.
N%hereupon she went out and came
iack in three days with five sheets of
Oelscap on which she had written an
beginning when Memory
.raws aside the curtains Of her magic
hamber, revealing the pictures medi-
alton paints, and We see through the
of our dreams the sweet vale
{ Yesterday, lying outside and be-
ond when stern Ambition, with re-
.ntless hand, turns Us away from an
bis 10 ride In the somber chariot Of
'uty-then II IS that enhancing
leasure beckons as back to sit by
IeH1rys Gre and sip our tea with !,
meditation What II was aII T,
bout ne n ever found out but the /
oung Prince m thp local desk who I
L clear through said that some
mes he thought tbat it vas d report
q fire and at other times il seemed
Se q dress goods catalogue. II would I
i've made four columns. As he put Z
K roll back In the drawer the Young .
-ince rose and paced grandly out /.
/ the front door b. stopped and said:
luu never make anything out n her y
she's q handholleri When q girl
gins 70 get corrs % her hands. / !,
itice she has mush on the brain e =
But Maybelle returned. and We went :
over the same ground again. We \.
planned that what We wanted was I,
items-two or three lines each :,
re references % home dOings: some !,
ING telling who has company. who Is !.
4 who j. putting shingles % the =
r. Or an Il on the house. And she =,
d -Oh. yes - -passionately that =
seemed as though she would bark or =
{ her front feet "a the table one
{ IKE taking her jaws In his hands %