| Show WEALTH WEALTH IN DOUGHNUTS DOUGHNUTS hl Chronicle Miss Jennie Long of this city has returned from Cape Nome with gold enough to so maintain herself in luxury for the remainder r i of Qt her hr b r life Ufe and she made it all ii by cooking doughnuts for forthe forthe forthe the miners in that faraway region She went to roo Neme Nome some months ago for a vacation end nd to look the land landover landover over oler and J me ee If she could not gather guther a of the wealth that she had I been told merely awaited the picking up there Miss Long says ys that tha when n she reach reached I ed the end of her long journey she found the tow n so crow ded that tha people I were walking tt ng the Ithe streets tJ ets at night be because because I cause there were ere not enough places I w where here they could sleepy sleep Within a week after her arrival she bought a tent and In a few days there was a sign hung sit art t her door which informed the passing miners miners that homemade doughnuts were for sale Ie w within From Froman an old cook book that had belonged to her mother Miss Mies Long had taken a recipe for lor southern doughnuts This I she followed to the letter and the re result result sult suit was that she had five dozen of the nicest little brown cakes that ever over gladdened the eve of a hungry man man Every one of the doughnuts brought the sum of 26 2 cents and in an hour all had disappeared After this orders came faster than they could be filled I According to the practical young joung lady traveler all an a woman needs in Nome N ome is to have her wits about her herand herand herand I and she can make money I 1 was for enough to get a position as copyist for the Pacific Title Abstract Trust company composed of several millionaire business s men of Seattle and through this means I was able to obtain quarter er interests in jn two very ery rich claims one on on the Nome Noine river and the other in Newton Ne on creek The Nome river claim will be worked throughout the winter and the Newton creek claim will be worked when I return in the spring After I had bad become identified with Nome I set to work to give a series of entertainments The first I gave was in the Presbyterian church tent under the auspices of that denomination and it was surprising the way the miners and the residents turned out outI I afterward gave a recital rec taI assisted by some musicians in a hall hail and it wes wies crowded to the doors Vaudeville shows have never been successful in Nome strange to lo say During the terrible storms in Sep I was pretty badly frightened The night the was wrecked I was at the Pacific Title office build ing mg and it seemed as if the big vessel was making straight for us She was washed ashore not nail more than feet from where I stood SOO |
