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Show SHE MADE GOOD. Daughter of Capitalist Something of a Financier Herself. A member of Vassar's graduation class, tho daughter of a Chicago capitalist. Is noted for her generosity and prodigal liberality. lib-erality. A short time ago her father, who Is sclf-mado. began to fear that his daughter did not appreciate the value of money. Sho promptly wrote demanding that her allowance bo stopped nnd set to work more as a joko than for any other reason to see just how much sho could do for herself. She had spent several years In Europe when a child, and spoko French and German with such ease that she always elected a course in one or tho other that might prove'a rebate on study expended in other directions. Consequently Consequent-ly sho secured several patrons In the city whom she visited weekly to converse pnilably and instructively with their children chil-dren In whichever language they chose. At home sho had an excellent French maid, whose operations sho had often watched with interest She put up a sign announcing, "Shampoo at 25 cents, manicuring mani-curing at 15 cent3; latest nnd most approved ap-proved methods. Buy a book of tickets nnd save money." She opened a boot-blacking boot-blacking stand and impressed her lazy room-mate .Into service. Thoy who had lormctly slept until getting any breakfast wns a gamble now rose at dawn and disposed dis-posed of long rows of boots. iio girl's father, among other things, was an officer of nn express company. Weekly her laundry was franked home that her dainty garments might not be ruined In tho college laundry. Sho suggested sug-gested yet another Industry. Sho became a laundress of turn-overs and flno handkerchiefs. hand-kerchiefs. Tho 10-cent store furnished the outfit at. a price that would have delighted delight-ed the Salvation Army, and she made enough out of It to pay her bill at the grocery store representing many a col-lego col-lego spread. It happened to bo near a basketball game. She rented a sowing machine and went Into tho Hag business, making SO per cent on each pennant. At the end of the month sho sent her father an account of her career, which so pleased that gentleman he had just won a victory ever his board of directors that ho came on and took her and her friends to Now York, where the time of their lives was theirs for the asking. His alarms were so successfully quieted that ho begged her to give up business for tho present and let nlr support l.er until she finished college. Public Opinion. |