Show kow HOW SHE EARNED HER CAR FARE A TTo Wo aiana ingenious Ingen ioa device for makins money when hen she was wa hard up A woman who is ia now one of the most arons promising ing artists in this city and wai wag lucky enough to get two of her pictures accepted by the academy told this story of how she earned her first few fc w lenniea ta in this lg big town when I 1 name come hero here fiver five years year sago ago I 1 had kist t enax five dollars in ill my mr pock et I 1 yot ot a room or rather a cubb cubby hole next 13 3 the root roof in a boerding bonse Llou seon on fourth avenue it was the cz I 1 ip av A then teacher in id a Z when you got it wasa was fair fai elou I 1 io amount but unfortunately got get it until the end of the tha month by this time there was such a tremendous hole in my twenty five douar dollars that I 1 afford to move up town tho expressage alone would have made mad a bankrupt of me for I 1 had absolute absolu tel come to such a pass that I 1 enough money to pay my car fare to the and back I 1 explained the situation ti t tho the landlady sho she really was a dear alc thing she told me I 1 to worra won j about my board bill she was perfectly 3 willing to wait for her money until thi th end of the month that was one ona weight off my mind of course but bat 1 still to grapple ditl the car fare problem 1 I was in p dread ful pickle really for four days I 1 walked every inch of the way 11 41 milet miles each journey I 1 used to leave tha house at 7 in the morning so as to reach the school promptly at 9 then I 1 found that my french heeck were beginning to give out so I 1 saw that my efforts to save money by trian ism would only get me into deeper water suddenly I 1 had an insel inspiration aaion there were threefold three thre eold old maiden asisten who occupied the double bedded room on the second floor they wherewith were with out exception the fattest women I 1 avei saw the most etherial of the thre we weighed ig bed if she weighed a pound they were all saleswomen in one of the big sixth avenue stores they used ti ft Bc down to breakfast in the moru morn ing I 1 in a fluster atthe last moment one of them confided to me that it ir was their shoes which always delayed them they almost expired every morn in ing in their attempts to button them s 6 told mo me in a tone of the utmost resignation that eventually she expect ec their shoes would be the death of a al three of them well what do you sup pose I 1 did I 1 took that woman asid and I 1 said to I 1 ahrn r now w look COZ it here e re I 1 IL 1 make a bargain with you yon I 1 want fact tt tc make a ittle extra money just now fo f 0 I 1 am dreadfully hard up lf if you ano ana your two sisters asters will each pay me twenty cents a week ill come and button your tour shoes for you every the poor old things fairly jumped ni at the offer they ted sted on pap paying i n my OT first weeks salary sixty cents in ad vance it left me ten cents to the good you see because on saturday therewa there was no school after the first week they ii a on raising my salary to an el avei el quarter from each well I 1 buttoned their shoes regularly for two mouths then thea I 1 had to resign bresn my position tiou as I 1 was moving to a boarding honse up town when I 1 bade them goodby the por peor old things actually cried over me and presented me with the loveliest little silver buttonhook you ever over oversaw saw I 1 sen ben them tickets for the private view th other night they all came fatter thal thai ever and went into over my pictures the eldest one told me with tears in dereyes her eyes that ever since I 1 left tham they had been obliged to abandon button shoes now my dear she said with a huge sigh of regret becan we can wear nothing noth irig but elastic sides r new kew evening sun |