Washington County news., March 24, 1904, Page 3, Image 3

Mill
Op. R R Depot
Crescent Flour is the Best.
Patronize Home Industry.
F orest Grove
Johnson & Co.
THE:
Brick • Livery,
teed
and
Sale
Stable
See our ad. in the T. P. A. Guide. Drummers’ trade our
specialty. Our ’Bus meets all trains. Carries U. S. mail.
Baggage and freight called for and delivered.
Finest Rigs.
Best Horses.
Good Drivers.
Corner Main and Pacific Ave., Forest Grove, Or.
A' LETTER TO GIRLS.
C o n rrrn lB K
S elf
R ea y ecttn ir
O ld
M a i d * a n d V e r y ' V o n u s l.n d le a .
My D ear Girls—Not long ago u wom­
an crowded up and mude room for me
In a street ear already so packed th a t
It seemed Impossible to seat another
person. I thanked her w ith sincere
appreciation, for the ride w as long.
Then began an acquaintance. I found
the lady w as employed In a business
house, th a t she w as superintendent of
a departm ent and received $20 a week.
It w as her business to direct the labors
of about fifty J r ls and to see th a t none
of them slighted a task. She wus Miss
Norcross, aged thirty-five.
The girls In the establishm ent were
fifteen to nineteen years old. They
received from $4 to $0 a week for their
work. Glrl-like, those who lived at
home spent every cent of this money
on clothes, enormous (lapping hats,
huge muffs, shiny dingle dangles and
cheap brooches and pins of various
kinds. They liked to go to dances,
which w as well enough, but they fre­
quently danced nearly all ulght and
SAELENS <Sr CO.
Proprietors of
.. City M eat M a rk e t..
We handle all kinds of meat and fresh fish.
Front S treet,
F o rest Grove
The Iron House is closed, but
D r.
H ines'
open and has the best line of Drugs, Cigars and
Stationery in town. Sole agent for the
M ontello
quite n atu ra l for a girl to look forw ard
to marrlnge. I t Is also n atu ral. If not
wise, for her to try to a ttra c t men, If
she w an ts a husband, But. girls, a n ­
sw er me this: Do you think It is ei­
th er gentle, good tem pered, w om anly
or polite to “m ake fun” of a woman
only because sbe Is an old m aid? One
likes to think of girls as sweet, bright
creatures whose m inds are occupied
w ith pleasant, kindly thoughts, whoso
m anners are alw ays courteous.
Resides, w as the lot of the m arried
women they knew so delightful and en­
viable th a t the girls I speak of w ere
Justified In jeering a t Miss Norcross be­
cause she w as single? The women they
knew had been mostly w orking girls
like themselves. They, too, had w orn ex­
aggerated hats and squeezed themselves
nearly in tw o a t the w aists an d danced
aw ay tw o or three years of young life in
a sort of dream . They w aked up w hen
they foqnd them selves fa st m arried
and til'd, w ith a string of children
hanging to them and not alw ay s money
enough to buy shoes all round. Some­
tim es even they had drunken husbands.
They “lost h e a rt“ then, as weak, Ig­
norant women cnll it, and did not care
how they looked any more. They be­
cam e bad tem pered slatterns. They,
too, In th eir youth “m ade fun" of old
maids. Now they envy the neat and
tidy single w om an who respects herself
and Is getting on well In the world.
Is there any reason to expect th a t the
fate of the girls who Jeered a t Miss
Norcross will be any different from th a t
of the girls who w ent before them ?
Miss Norcross had to tak e care of a
sickly m other. She began It w hen she
w as sixteen and kept It up till her
m other died. She had no tim e to go
to balls, and her money had to be spent
on the housekeeping. M eantim e she
m astered perfectly the business sho
w as engaged In and w as prom oted to
her present place. She lins now con­
siderable money In bank. B u t many a
tim e her h eart has been m ade b itter
because of the rude and Ignorant girls.
The tim e Is quite likely to come when,
Instead of m aking fun of old maids,
they will envy these w ith all their
souls.
SUSAN P E P P E R .
A M an o f G rn la a .
“ A m an of genius, you said?”
“ Yes. He failed In a rt anil actually
adm itted It, then w ent Into business
and succeeded."—D etroit Free Press.
Main S t
A l l C o lo rs .
“ THE11E GOES 0B O 88B O N K S !’’
H. J. GOFF
•ame to w ork next day late and stupid
and sleepy, so th a t they did their tasks
laggingly and made m istakes. Miss
Norcross w as obliged to cull them to
Well, Hardly.
account, therefore they disliked her,
I
t
is
related
of Frnnk R. Stock-
“m ade fu n ” of her behind her back—
and to her fuce so fa r as they dared. ton th at while on a visit to Boston
They called her “Old M aid” and even he was invited to address the mem­
“Crossbones,” sometimes “Old Maid bers of a well known woman’s club.
Crossbones," and she beard them once The member who conveyed the in­
or twice. They giggled, perpetually vitation was a most dignified and
giggled, a fte r the w ay of thoughtless
stately matron. With just n sus­
young girls. They considered th a t the j
most dreadful thing In this life w as to picion of asperity in her tone she
be a single woman. Of course they suggested to the hum orist th at he
expected to be innrricd, every one of might address the club on any sub­
them, and “get out of work,” not know ­ ject which seemed to him appropri­
ing In th e ir aw ful ignorance th a t the ate, but th at she would call his a t­
lot of a poor m an’s w ife who la as tention to the fact th at this was
crude
and untrained as they were Is | “ not a club of new women,” with
W. W. GOFF
nearly alw ays ten tim es harder than ! the emphasis on “ new.”
With a
th a t of the old maid who Is earning a
deferential
bow
the
humorist
re­
com fortable Income.
plied
:
Expecting to m arry, these girls adorn­
“Ah, madam, I am convinced of
DEALERS IN
ed them selves In gew gaw s anil kept
th eir w eath er eye out m orning and that. At the same time, however,
evening to catch the men who w ere to you would not have me call you u
release them from work, ns they fool- j club of old women, would you?”
lshly Imagined. They were not alw ays
Studebaker Wagons very tidy as to their skin and clothing— j
Shelf
A Casa W orth Trying.
and Buggies, Logging In tru th , they sometimes hurried to
Goods,
F irst A ttorney— We can’t go on
S to v e s
Goods, Guns and Am­ work In the m orning w ith tangled, with the case. Our client has no
bled hair, hut they alw ays wore grounds for action.
and
munitions. Reasona­ tum
upon It the huge flapping h at w ith
His Partner— No grounds for ac­
R anges
ble prices.................... feathers—of th a t you may he sure- and
they alw ays and everlastingly giggled. | tion? Why, he’s worth a million 1—
F o rest Grove, Ore. Now. for better or for worse. It Is Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Main S treet,
Now. ho w c a n g h o s t s no b la c k o r whit*.?
Of co u rse th e y m a y be so;
B ut, w h e n you com e to th in k of It,
T h e y a r e all sh a d e s, you know .
—P h ila d e lp h ia Bulletin.