Show y 0 lyv okyo oy yo ya sf rt 1 MARY 1 SUCCEEDS A 0 ON 01 1 I MAIN STREET 6 1 by LAURA MILLER 1194 by b luuru lauru miller OLD MISS plantation MANAGER miss ealie ahe Moui modicure cure and 1 I friends of ahall a half hour hoir were ere lunching on scrimps shrimps and rice it was a quaint little res caurant tau taur rant atit not to be duplicated in BH any metropolis neither are shrimps scrimps and rice cooked as those these were ft ere cooked to be duplicated outside of dixieland or of shreveport for or till all I 1 leow kaow certainly miss bliss Moncure 13 43 unique in her side line ill have to get back to work fairly early she suddenly said my black folks conie come in for or supplies this afternoon therein lay it a romance of the feudal age ace dut but the lord of the castle had become a lady I 1 and the lady was the he pretty young person peron who had bad introduced herself merely as jan an average private secretary A leading lawyer of this Lot Lov llana town own Is also by inheritance a planter ills acres are arc planted to cotton culli bated on shares kach each of tits his fifteen negro families has I 1 20 0 acres the sharing scheme has become heredi tary a voluntary serfdom the preach tr for instance Is son of he five genera ilona of preachers born on the same soll soil illiterate and perpetually in debt to the current generation of owners wildcat Wild cata c negro of recent literary fame grew up miss bliss moncure Blon cure bays on her place when the owner had to go west for his health she inherited his oler oversight sight of the place last year car despite floods re planting and low prices site she man aged to make tho the rent and a 31 profit as against no rent and a 2000 delicti before she took charge she has to advance supplies of every cery sort for the full year ear in the proportion these childlike negroes need not want see that enough corn atrid alfalfa are raised for stock and that all work steadily she has bits to share all their joys and sorrows yet retain their respect their nickname old ms applied to her under thirty self to la tho the final proof of their devotion and trust in her shreveport folk say that miss bliss moncure has personality goes inthout saying saving she Is the first woman of her family to work outside her home her grandmother was the earliest white alte woman settler on the last river bank along the texas trill trail f and thus a founder of the oldest family of shreveport miss bliss moncure to cecime it stenographer made sure she could feell translate french law and look up authorities and thus took tok herself outside the mediocre ocre class before she started she believes that by staying in the he smaller place it a woman has a better chance of becoming known in bustness business and retains the he social position tIon which means good times |