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Tenn, dranges, lmuhut and chlable L SROBGLOMIEOBO PO EE ) B NG TELEGHRAN, a0} THE Chven e N = R AL ] P !.‘..'“‘; Yt B o PEES | ™ P r o) r. “I dont The aii=t dried her brushes, folded .nd waited. “Go ahead and communded. ,w of Mrs. Vanderskipper?” tenographer. procident of the Humanity Uplift- ers’ society? Yes, why?” <he is a friend of a cousin of mine | never did like that cousin, either. One hot evening Mrs. Vanderskipper’'s .utomobile stopped in front .of our boarding house, and T had visions of | a ride in the park. Mrs. Vanderskip- per didn't carry the same thought. I learned that a prize of $§100 had been ! offered to the member of the Uplift- ers' society who would write the best essay on ‘A llr-lping Hand to Self- Supporting Women.' Mrs. Vander- skipper wanted to have me help her write the essay.” The artist grinned “I wanted to laugh, too” said the stenographer, ‘but 1 left the comfort- able porch and for three solid hours | we sweltered over the notes she had written. Then we rearranged them for me to copy after office hours. Mrs suggestions, but refused to cut out gome sentimental ideas—-" “And your suggestions won her the prize!"™ The artist spoke as it she knew all about winning prizes. “Ex.ctly. But that is only the first chapter. “On the strength of the $100 check,” went on the stenographer, “Mrs. Van- derskipper wished to give me what she called a real treat. If she had paid me at space rates for ccpying her essay I would have been satisfied., | but she could not think of money in | connection with services rendered. She invited me to a concert to which she had free tickets. T apologetically refused, as [ do not care for music. Anyway, T wanted the treat to be on her, not on the manazement of the concert. 1 had seen all the gond plays in town and T refused to waste an | evening on a poor one You are rather partienlar | “Oh, am 1?7 WellL anyway Vanderskipner invited me to | d'liote dinner at the Hotel Caroline Mrs 1 table and she really " oever lived there dinners as hanaguoet { She had ones recommended the iy § e never been to a #7 L | had | willing to ex invited several wonen to din | better than any $5 banguet s FOr | 3 [ attended T have never be £ 4 U feed, and anvway ‘illing wo | { periment She Ad invited several! | other solf eupporting B in- | ner also. She said that some of the gervants mizht still be at the hotel { who knew her when she lived there land they micht recognize her, so it | would be a source of great mortifiea- tion to her if her gwests were not properly attired” The artist grinned. “1 canzht the idea, so that night T told the bhoarders that I'd have to buy a new dress, just becanse T had been indiscreet enongh to lend a helpitg hand to a poor society woman. Oue ‘m;m suggested that 1 go at onee to Mrs. Vanderskipper and say, ‘Madam, that dinner will cost you $1-—give me 75 cents and I'll stay at home.! An- other man advised me to make it 1) cents—said even then she would he saving money. Miss Bosely said she would be glad to lend me her evening dress for the oceasion, but the cousn | who gave it to her had once lved ot | the Hotel Caroline and the servauts might recognize it. “Every day that week during the { noon hour I houcht a dress or tok | one back. The last afternoon at 4 | o'clock 1 had a cream wool skirt, two jv!»mnn veils, a pair of Turkish s! | pers and a linen dress. By that tin | T was so desperate that T didn't cove { whether T made a good impression on | the servants at the Hotel Caroline op {not, so 1 rushed into a store and { bonght a blonse “That isn’t the worst of it. At the | dinner Nirs: Vanderskipper told every | | | | | after hours that 1 devoted to typ o | the essay, | one that it took her less than an hovp to write the essay which won the § 0 | prize. 1 thousht of the hot sumyiop | nizht’s work in my room and the long g e to say nothing of the tim passed in shopping “lust 0 eat a $1 dinner with g [ woman'™ finished the artist. “Precisely. 1t made me so an ry that now [ haven't the slightest Je. sire ever again to give a helping hand to any one. That is why I refuse to help you. Oh, I'm now the least ot lig- | ing ereature you ever saw!"—Chicago Daily News. Youthful Chesterfield. This experience of a New Yorker is remarkable: "It {s so rare an occur rence to meet a young Chestertiold that 1 wish to go on record as havi ng encountered, in the person of the ten- year-old son of a friend of mine, the most striking example one could im- agine. 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