Show the reconstructed snob an fn y aam HINRIC 4 i copyright 1912 by associated literary P r cis dr george moultrie looked up from his book at the maid who was dusting his study several times it had occurred to him that she was unlike ll 11 bis mothers other malda maids the tightly fitting black dress showed the lined of a slender blender erect young figure her hair was brushed tightly back into a hard knot her head with its unbecoming hair arrangement and the white cap of se service was held well back on her shoulders as if the firm round chin had all the girls life iwen boon tilt tilted edat at a pronounced angle her hands were small with long tapering fingers they had tho the roughness of labor but not the distorted joints of excessive hard work she turned and met his curious scrutiny her face reddened and a look of apprehension flashed in her eyes she whirled around and resumed the wielding of her that afternoon wild frightened screams rang sude through the house dr moultrie boun dang down the stairs saw in the drawing room a cloud of smoke through which he could dl golsh several figures on the alf near an overturned tea table whose alcohol lamp had started the fire lay a woman covered with a rug beside her ber knelt kilell jane the housemaid pressing the rug close about the boni worn an and beating with her heir hands th the flames that shot from under the rug nig around them screamed his motz mother and her friends in a moment the fire was extinguished gui gule shed hed the injured woman was the cook who had ben assisting the ille maid in the drawing room when the table had been overturned when the cook had bad been made comfort comfortable comfortably abl e in her oin own rn idom room dr moultrie went in search of jane ho he T 1 resumed the wielding of her found her in the kitchen rubbing oil on her blistered hands and arms what does all this mean he asked abruptly what does what mean who are you and what are you doing here 1 I am jane white a servant in your mothers employ you are a servant only through some whim of your own I 1 want rn en explanation for several minutes the maid did not reply finally she dragged bagged her reluctant eyes up to the mans keen wondering ones 1 I am coral nielson yes t the he coral nielson who inherited the great niel son estate my parents died when I 1 was a baby an aunt brought me up she was a hard selfish woman imbued with tho the belief that wealth makes a class which has bas no obligations to less fortunate beings I 1 did not realize that I 1 had grown up to be a selfish self absorbed woman utterly without sympathy for the troubles of women in other walks of life the revelation came to me from a housemaid she was the daughter of a farmer a rosy cheeked checked happy girl with no knowledge of class distinctions one day when by a particularly cutting remark I 1 tried to show her the difference in our stations she flared forth all her wholesome pride her innate self respect declared her indignation against any selfish insolence she spoke with a dignity and a grief that awed me and awakened me I 1 saw myself as I 1 was a callous heartless snob there was one chance of reformation forme for me I 1 thought that was to rouse my heart to sympathy and love for other wom t on en I 1 determined to see ife fe from the workers side to know their heir labors and sorrows borrows the housemaid taught me her work am all I 1 went out in tho the world to do it I 1 hove have been a housemaid I 1 shall be a factory girl and learn what they lilly ha hax to suffer buffer 1 shall be a clerk in a gres 10 store where women as cruel as I 1 vi vija s shall treat me as ri a soulless cou lIeBS 9 automaton through the Is of mutual hardships I 1 ahall learn jovo vo and sympathy for other women wo roon you have made it a a baad d beginning it was a working wom woman a whose life hf you saved at the risk 0 your I 1 own 1 I am glad it was t tap tl e cook she said simply it la Is a oy to me to know that I 1 have been h k hand nd to atI at least bast one working woman several weeks later badr lir moultrie le the physician for or the M mills found in tho the room of patient an amazing transformation transform atio the patient was a young factory ogrator ape Oe for days she had bad lain in t cpr r poor bare little room III disco discouraged aged without hope to stimulate the f aebly bly ably flickering vital flame but a eh cha change ige go had come coma to both the room and t girl rl there were new white curtal curial alaa ia agae lie windows rugs on the floor floora picture flow ers snowy lin eidi 0 oi a 4 table ibbie and overflowing on tho be were dresses hats hate shoe sand an linger dainty inez inex pensive clothes careful f chosen 1 the sick girls cheeks cpr weri ath k and her eyes were like stars I 1 1 I am well she cod joy fully it Is a miss iwho who has done it the girl v i aused bed to a delineation of her deeper deepe feelings lings struggled tor for words to exp eap ass a the change in her inner being as well as in the externals ad she br light me good things and good cheer chee and took away I 1 the he horrid I 1 aara dark u illness of this place laco gmt hitte abad bad thoughts IMI ha all t the t time I 1 m e cat been work ing hard f I 1 had bad to p mother and my younger stater sister gho ho was not 4 strong enough to world 11 my money went for board and rent e never a new dress nor a hat bat and chever e ver a good time because I 1 was too shabby to go anywhere i thep then 1 I 1 go sick and was too foo als discouraged to t ctet t wem well miss white worked in the same I 1 room loom with I 1 me at the factory dihe he came to see me and found out all n troubles and then the sun of good fortune fortune sure began to shine in this poor hut she knows some rich who dont like to mend their wn n clothes and she asked them to io b ing their things to my mother andal and sl ter iter to be mended there will bo be a I 1 ithe work they can do pleasant wor wo w with th good pay she brought me th a clothes she said they had bad belonged beloff ad to a girl who could not wear tb hem it hard to get well when tiler cherms s somebody to make you see bed that tf wre 1 re are kindness and pd good goodness ex a in this poor suffering buffering corner when the emp yes 4 aarom from the factory dr bouli a plainly dressed young wo wow 1 I liaa just come from P he said 1 L you have made li he a appy girl and given her a channel aban i oi recovery poor sz letlo lit P mill I 1 had a fam lly ily to support ort ana iso had ha a sweetheart she wag to 0 good and am too unselfish to withhold ir m her dependent mother and ii s te any of her wages ages she was 0 o proud to go about with her 9 theart etheart in her rags neither would i tell him why she would not go ou aws 1 ith him he thought she did not ca for him and he began to io lookyat look at otier girls hard work wor small wages leendent len dent relatives and faithless falth lesi I 1 r were more than at illys afre strength nath buld bear her mother and sister a arja T now self sup porting the next tai e she sees bees her young man she will bi bj wearing pretty clothes and chowing lim lm illat amt she Is willing tit tf gp to 0 shows and beitch beach dances dance s with lift haiim and ana coral nielson tins as done this said dr moultrie le til T a woman who had no love nor sympathy sym m athy for poor women who knew nt hing of their sorrows and desires h haj done this for a poor factory giri girl oral jane 1 have been watching y buiu u ever since you left my mothers I 1 alouse use I 1 have known the work yom yoi have done among these people dijt B coral there Is a better work you can do one which will rouse to the greatest activity all the womanly VII bues tues you aro are so anxious to develop this work to la to love a man who loaves 1 ves you and marry him I 1 love youa you coral dear I 1 have loved you ever at alce e I 1 saw you extinguishing the cooks re do you think you could learn to fjare are for rne me jane white the reconstructed snob has le learned arned many hard things I 1 think she can learn no ne beautiful easy one |