The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-08-28

Earning Money
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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II never before realized how rich /
am" declared the little stenographer.
Last Wednesday evening / discover
ed, to my amazement, that Croesus
and / are in the same class
TELL me about it, said the book
keeper. THE firm profits so greatly
by our invaluable services that we are
entitled to relax little in business
hours"
1T was the Ladies Aid Society,""
explained the little stenographer.
"About month ago the president re-
Quested each one of us to bring five
dollars to be earned by our individual
efforts. The money was to be provid-
ed In one month from that day. It
was for a special purpose and we all
promised that we'd do as requested.
''There aren't many other girls in
that society. They're mostly married
women. So they talked and talked
and wondered how on earth they
could earn five dollars apiece. They
went on that way for two hours after
the meeting was over. You see. they
weren't supposed to bring any money
that was given them-so they could
MT ask their husbands to help them
wei, last Wednesday evening the
month was Up. OF course, just took
fiYe-dollar bill that I'd saved from
my last check, so was perfectly safe.
If hadn't earned it myself wouldn't
have been able to bring it,
I'VE got there rather early every
one was anxious to see If every one
else had brought five dollars. And oh,
they looked SO worn out and tired and
some Of them looked crosst"
when the meeting was began we
all began to tell how the money was
earned-and that's what gives me my
wealthy sensational
"You know Mrs. Ward. Her hus
band owns nearly half the city. be
lieve, and she has all sorts of motor
cars and wears orchids all winter!
Well, she brought only $3.50! She
was almost in tears about it and she
offered to give the other seventy
cents. if they'd let her, out of her hus
bands money. Everybody was anx
ious to hear why she failed to earn
the full amount. What do you sup
pose she'd donef Pressed her hus-
bands trousers!
sShe said she had started right in
for she could charge only ten cents
a pair-and she knew there were only
thirty days a MONTH So she hunted
up all the trousers her husband owned
and pressed them the first day. Then
each day she pressed the pair he had
worn the day beforehand then she
tried to persuade him to change his
trousers at noon sometimes so she
I could press two pairs day. but he
refused. She was counting UP the
days, and at the rate she was going
she couldn't possibly get the five dol
lars before the month was up! She
made him pay her each day. Finally.
near the end, in despair, she took all
the pairs out of the closet again and,
finding, she said, they were little
wrinkled from hanging SO long, she
pressed them once more. It was that
performance that ended her earning
powerl Her husband said that tail
or was cheaper and did the work bet
ter.
Mrs. Cullen-you know, she gives
presents worth hundreds Of dollars TO
the church every little while. She
fairly keeps 1t running at times. Wen,
she sold magazine subscriptions She
said that she found all her friends al
ready were subscribers for all the
magazines she had for sale. Finally
she had to canvass the streets, and
yet in order to make up the five dol
lars she was compelled to sell three
subscriptions to herself and then give
away the magazines. We couldn't
decide whether that was fair or not.
MRS. Briggs painted place cards!
She said she spent most of the month
in wondering what to do, and just
few days before last Wednesday she
learned that special friend of hers
was giving a luncheon. So she told
the friend that she'd paint place cards
at twenty-five cents each! In ignor-
ance, her friend took her offer-and
she brought one of the cards to show.
She had to laugh at 1t herself, for
she'd never painted thing In her life
before and she thought those simple
little things would be awfully easyi
There was a little red hill-she had
just three color paints and didn't
know what to mix for other colors-
and on the red hill was yellow house
with blue trimmings. There were the
three colors-and all the embellish-
ments were on the same colors. They
were really unique!
~Mrs. Broadway is dear little old
woman who Just drives around and
looks sweet and dainty and goes to
church. She made contract with
her son to weed his whole lawn for
five dollars!
Actually, when 1t got TO me TO tell
how earned my five dollars really