Daily British Whig (1850), 31 May 1912, p. 9

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100 0000000000000 00000 The Reconstructed Snob he OPERA PIPETTE. Dr. George Moultrie looked up from his book at 'the maid who was dust ing his study, ' Several times &t bad occurred to him that she was unlike his mother's other maids. The tightly fitting black dress showed the lives of a slender, erect young figure. Her hair was brushed tightly back mto a bard knot. Her head, with its unbecoming hair as rangement and the white cap of ser Wes, was held well back on her shoul- ders as if the firm, round chin had ali the girl's life been tilted at a pro- nounced angle. « Her hands were small, with long, tapering fingers, They had the robghness of labor, but not the distorted joints of ex cessive hard work, She turned 'and met his scrutiny, Her face reddened look of apprehension flashed in her eves. She whired around and re sumed the wielding of her dusteloih. That al oon, wild frightened screams rang suddenly through the house. - Dr. Moultrie bounding down the stairs saw in the drawing room a cloud of smoke, through which he could stinguish several figures. On the r near an overturned tea ta- ble, whose alcohol lamp had started the fire, lay a woman covered with . A Tug. Beside her knelt Jane, the houemaid, pressing the rug close a bout the woman and beating with her hand the flames that shot from under the rug. Around them scream- ed 'his mother and her friends. In a moment the fire was extin- guished. The injured woman was the curious and a "~eook, who had been aststing the maid in the drawing room when the table had been overturned. When the cook had been made com fortable in her own room Dr. Moul- tiie went in Search of Jave. He found her in the kitchen rubbing -oil on her blistered hands and arms. "What does all thi mean ?" asked abruptly. "What does what mean 7" "Who are you and what are doing here ¥' "YI am Jane White, your 'mother's employ." "You aré n servant only throvgh some whim of yout own, | want an explanation." or several minutes the maid did not veply. Finally she dragged her reluctant eyes to the man's keen won- dering ones. * : ' "I am Coral Nielson---yes, the Cor al Nielson who inherited the great Nielson estate. © My parents died when | was a baby. An ~aunt brought me up. She was a hard, SUFFERED THREE YEARS Till Dr. Morse's indian Root Pills cured his Kidney Trouble be you a servant in There are few diseases that cause more Trouble, - Smal al my bask sud ould be impossible for me to straighten fog several minutes. A dull wdneys was always pres. it a buruing. senid but . Morse's Indian ually effective its attendant THAT TOBACCO With the "Rooster" 'on It Is .orowing louder us be goes along Only 46¢ per pound. For chewing und smoking: ~~ AT A. MACLEAN'S, Ontario Street, F. J. JOHNSON THE LEADING FLORIST * 324 KING STREET. Special prices In Cut ¥Flow- ers. See our window display. Wedding Bouquets and Floral Floral Sprays a . Sweet Pea Seed Bulk Named. Varieties. Phones: RA Store, 239. Conservatories 235 Residence, 1213. Packet Soups' and Gravies D. COUPER'S Phous 76. 341-8 PRINCESS ST. -- selfish woman, imbued with the be. © bat wealth. makes a class wich sas no OLlgALIOUS LO' 1688 Tor fuuste peings. | did not realize tnat I haa growu up to be a seinsh, seir- ausorped woman, utjerly without wen 1n other walks of life. "fhe revelation came to me from a hopsemaid. She was the daugh ter 6f a farmer, a rosy-cheeked, hap » py girl. with no knowledge ofgciass aisunctions. One day, when by a particular cutting remark I tried to show her the difference in our sta- stons, she flared forth. AH her wholesome pride, ber innate seit- vespect, declared her indignation against my selfish Insolence. Bhe spoke with a dignity and a grief that awed me---and awakened me. { saw myself as | was, heartless snob. There was . chance of reformation for me, 1 thought. That was to pe my heart to sympathy 'apd Jove for gther women. 1 determified to see fe from the worker's side, to know thelr labors and sorrows. The {ittle housemald had taught me het work and I. went out in the world to do it. I have been a housemaid. Ek shall be a factory girl and learn what they have to suffer. 'I shall be a'clerk in a great store where women as cruel as I was shall treat me as a soulless, bloodless automa- tion. ' Through the experience of mutual hardships | shall learn love and sympathy for other women." "You have made a good begin. ping. It whs a working woman whose life you saved at the. risk of your own." "1 am glad it was the cook," she said simply. "It is a joy to me to know that I have been kind to at least ope working woman." Several weeks later D. Moultrie, the physician for the Mills, foung In the room of a pa tient an amazing transformation. The, patient was a young factory operator. For days she had lain in her poor, bare, little room, ill, dis- couraged, without hope to stimulate the feebly flickering vital flame, But a change had come to both the room and the girl There were new white curtains at the windows, rugs on the floor, pictures, flowers, snowy dinen. On a table and oyer- flowing bed were dresses, hats, shoes and lingerie, dainty, inex- pensive clothés carefully chosen: The sick girl's cheks were pink and her eyes wdre like stars. ' "I am well," she anounced joy- fully: - "It is Miss White who has done it." The girl, unused to a de- lineation of her deeper feelings struggled for words to express the change in her inner being as well as in the externals. 'She brought nie good things and good cheer and took away the horried, dark ugli- ness of this 'place and the bitter, sad thought I've had all the time. I've been working hard. 1 had to help mother and my young sister, who' was not strong enough to work. All my gnoney went for hoard and rent, never a good time because I was too shabby to go any- where. Then I got sick and was too discouraged to get wel. Miss White worked in the same * room with me at the factory. She came to see me and found out alk . my troubles and theh the sun for good fortune began to shine in this poor hut. She knows some rich woman who don't like to mend their own clothes and she askea to bring their things to my mother and sister to be mended. There will be all the work they can do--pleasant 'work with good pay. She brought me these clothes. She sald they be- longed to a girl who could not wear them and wanted me to have them. It isn't hiird to ge. well when there's somebody to make you see that there are kindness and good- ness even down in this poor suffer- ing corner of the world." When the employes came from the factory Dr. Moultrie joined a plainly dressed woman. "I have dus' come from Milly Smith," he said. "You have made her a hap- »¥ girl and given her a chance for recovery." "Poor little Milly. She had a family to'support and she also had a sweetheart, She was too good and too unselfish to withhold from her dependent mother and sister any of her wages. She was too proud to go about with her sweet- heart in her rags; neither would she tell him why she would not go out with him. He thought she did not care for hiln and he began to look at other girls. Hard work, small 'wages, dependent relatives and faithless lover were more than Mil- 1¥'s strength could bear. Her mo- ther and sister are now . self-sup- porting. The next time she sees her young man she will be wearing pretty clothes and showing him that she is willing to go to picture shows and beach dances with him." "And Coral Nielson has this," sdald Dr. Moultrie. man who had no love nor sympathy for poor women, who knew nothing of their sorrows and desires, . has done this for a poor factory girl Coral---Jane --- | have been watch- ing you ever since you left my > -¥ UNSEEN DANGER ® i | The shriek of a Jaetmotive isa warning of immediate danger so great {that it must be heeded, but people face Other dangers as ° without knowing it. +H. Lloyd, of Mt. G36 done Vernon, tion of the system, ed for two months gud was grow sympathy lor tae wbubles or we | a callous, | Merrivale | "The wo- many great XY. 'writes us about a recent experience as lows : "A generally debilitated con- which: had last- on fe the neces. | I~, i ' i i LE" alittle practice in mother's house. I have kmown the work youn have done among these people. But, Coral, there is a better work you can do, one which will rouse ta the greatest activity. .all the womanly virtues you are 80 anxious. to develop. This work is to love a man who loves yon and {mary him. I love you, Coral dear. I have loved you ever since I saw yoy extinguishing the #ool's fire, Do you think you could learn to care for me?" - "Jane White, the reconstructed grob, has learned many hard things. 1 think she canstlearn one beautiful easy one." DECAY IN CLASSICS STUDY Noted in: United States by Oxford Professor. New York, May 31.-Dr. Murray, Regius® professor of at Oxford, who recently visited: the United "States and made a survey oi American college methods of study ing the classics, has just ' published a summary of his findings. He de- ciares that a "deep decay' has eaten into the study of the classics in Ame G. G, Greek rica. "1 was struck," The+said, "bf weneral--sense ob regret, -for--the lost inheritance. The detay is in part due to Dr. Eliot's policy in abolish- the ing compulsory Greek. It was an ex- | peritnent whichp should have been tried | in a laboratory less noble than Har vard, | "America is educating a vast ge- | moeracy with splendid public spirit | and progress. 1 can sep quite well | that circupaances demand a awick, | cheap, business-like education to meet | the needs of the immediate moment. But I think a. time has come which de- | maids a deeper, more solid, and there- | fore slower, education. | "At Oxford we must prepare our | ancient individuality, and continue to | teach the classics in the old, thor- | okeh He The American university | cannot give the education like ours." i GIRLS SHOCK EDITOR, ------------ i Who Promptly Dismisses Fifteen for Dancing Turkey Trot. | Philadelphia, May 31.--The ( tin Publishing company is without the | serviges of fifteen youmsg women who | so far forgot the proprieties and rales i of that corporation in the "turkey trot' on the third floor | of the Ladies' Home Journal build: ing. The sixteen were discovered at the noon hour engaged in this terpischor- | as to indulge Edwaed Bok, the editor, who prompt- ly . informed the their department that the vould dispense of the services of girls who eould so far forget selves as to engage company | them action as not only an intrusion, since they were their eon at the time he happened on them, but as an attack on their personal privileges. én-oving noon lunch SPOONERS MUST GO. Lovemaking ou Handlebars Has to be Stopped. Aurora, 1l., May 31.--Chief of Police Michaels has issued an order for arrest of all motoreyele spooners. The chief explained that motoreyele spoon ors are girle who ride aronnd town on the tops of the handlebars, ing back looking into the eyes: "Why, these fellows get so dizzy," he said, "they can't 'see anything but what is in the girl's eves. They are always running into some one, iujur- ing them or half killing them. "It seems they never get seriously hurt themselves. Anyway, that "'driek got to stop in Aurora on top of the handlebars." « ' GIP. ENTERS \PPEAL the Railway Ottawa, May 31. ~The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway company has given no- company's termifials at Prince Ru- pert. is is the second a I from the company's rulings during the past month, the other being the deei- 1 The appeal will be heard before the Fos council June 6th and there will a i array of counsel in | srtendance. Beirne tn American Refugees. port Buford arrived. from the west coast of Mexico with 373 refugees aboard. ' Of this number forty-one will and jhe landed here. There is only one case of sickness from ean specialty, much to the disgust of | superintendent of | the | in such dances | even among themselves, | The voung women regard Mr. Bok s | | sioners concerning the location of the | UNITED STATES Uncle Sam is seizing the opportunity furnished by the negro riotsin Cuba to give Halts Charch Marauder at Point of nesday OW « church, when he 8 dark lantern, the | lean- | fellow's i to me only with thine eves' stuff has | i | i : i i tice of an appeal from the recent deci- | gion of the board of railway commi- | t i sion regarding the Hazelton townsite. | +. sa San Diego, Cal, May 31. ~The trans | 3 : an Americas | PASTOR CAPTURES BURGLAR. I fan to the police station, nearby. Of | Lancaster, | point Cramer, pastor of the Firat Reformed | | hehurch, capyured: Harry the church PAGE NINE. of uncertain ®m quality and value, when delicious "SALADA" Tea can be had on demand. » | Black, Green or Mixed. 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