Eureka Reporter | 1903-11-20 | Page 4 | Case of Satisfied Ambition

CASE OF SATISFIED AMBITION young woman s long W shed for por de s res re grat f ed T two wo young women were discussing their late vacations at a well known club for business women down town says the new york press one of them qaid enthusiastically v of you found the scenery cry inspiring but what part of your trip d d you really enjoy the most the othel woman gave vent to a T apling laugh and rep ed we weir if you want to know the truth it was my meals in the ants attached to the various stations where I 1 made close connections the first speaker a confirmed trav tray eler gasped incredulously but the second continued her explanation it was the first time tn in my life that really felt free to spend money just as I 1 liked and I 1 tooh took a childish satis fac tion in the depot restaurants not lunch counters mind you but dining rooms with real tables and table cloths As a child I 1 suffered tortures of indigestion and mortification from being forced to eat out of a family lunch basi bast et where everything had ab sobbed the flavor of everything else to leave that lunch basket or shoe box at home and enter the sacred precincts of a depot restaurant was one of the ambitions of ma a girlhood I 1 presume no ambition is so small that its gratification does not bring a tain sense of exultation