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dry, and at our public school in the
country I had a teacher who inter
ested himself in my progress, so that
1 learned a good deal about figures.
The assistant bookkeeper in our store
was taken with typhoid fever, and the
head bookkeeper, having heard, in
some way, of my proficiency in math
ematics, took me on trial. He was
kind in showing me what should be
done, and when the sick man was
ordered to the country and a farm, I
was given the place of assistant book
keeper. It is confining work, and I
often long for the country and wish I
was churning out under the sycamore
trees, or milking Bessie, the Jersey
cow, but I am thankful that I have a
position which enables me to help
mother and the family. I send them
money every month, and often send a
dress pattern or a pair of shoes. I
have never had any trouble with my
employers, perhaps because I try to
be prompt and attentive, and I never
look for slights or offense, knowing
that business people have too much
on their minds to think of the little
details of courtesy and consideration
that would be agreeable to a girl em
ployee, but are not necessary to her
happiness.
I had the pleasure of a little talk
with your good and gifted Household
head, Mrs. Bryan, who was in the
store shopping when I started out to
lunch. The saleswoman introduced
her to me, and she asked me to write
a letter for The Golden Age from the
standpoint of a girl in the city who
had left a country home to enter on a
business life. To all girls similarly
situated I would say it is a great help
to join the Young Women’s Christian
Association. They have such a nice
rest and reading room; they give de
lightful dinners for a most reasonable
price; they allow working girls’ clubs
and societies to meet in their pleas
ant reception room. There is an at
mosphere of peace and kindness and
friendship about the place. There are
quantities of good books and maga
zines to read and a gymnasium for
athletic exercise.
JULIA T.
Atlanta, Ga.
Stomach Troubles
Horsford’s Acid Phosphate
Produces healthy activity of weak
and disordered stomachs. An unex
celled strength builder.
OFF FOp EUROPE.
I have not been unmindful of my
dear “Mother Meb” and her interest
ing Household. Often the desire
comes to me to write something to
you and to yours, but the time needed
for indulging such an inclination has
not been granted me. Teaching five
hours a day in four languages, carry
ing on a voluminous correspondence
with the members of my party of
European tourists, and last, but not
least in the amount of consideration
required, planning (and making) suit
able habiliments —all these things
have consumed all the days and hours
and minutes that there were.
I write now to tell you again how
much I wish you could be one of our
pleasant and congenial party, who
will make a tour of Europe. We leave
on the big German steamer Frederic
dur Grosse on June 11. We have a
delightful itinerary, including a visit
to Oberammergau, where the great
Passion Play will be performed this
year with a grandeur and perfection
Tetterlne Cures Ringworm.
Wysacklng, N. C., June 2, 1961.
Enclosed you will find SI.OO, for which
please send me at once Tetterlne. It Is
a dead shot on ringworms.
W. S. Dudley.
Tetterlne cures Eczema, Tetter, Ring
Worm, itching Piles, Rough, Scaly
Patches on the Face, Old Itching Sores,
Dandruff, Cankered Scalp, Bunions,
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of detail never attempted before. If
the spirit moves me while on ship
board, and the malde mer keeps afar,
I will write you about my attending
the commencement at the Naval Acad
emy of Anapolis. I have a nephew
who graduates there this month; and
also I may write to the Household
during our journeyings, if you and the
family will care to hear from your old
time Sunny Girl.
MARY THOMAS PETTUS.
Baylor College, Texas.
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PATTERSON MYSTERY SOLVED.
Word comes from Higginsville, a
little city in the western part of Mis
souri, that a former merchant of that
town, whose veracity is vouched for
by his fellow-citizens and himself, has
answered the oft-repeated question as
to who struck Billy Patterson. This
famous incident has been associated
with many cities, both in the East and
in the West, though who Billy Patter
son was, or why he should have been
struck no one had definitely stated.
The Missouri man seems to have
cleared away all these lingering
doubts. He relates that, when a small
boy, he lived in Richmond, Va. Os
that town, seventy-five years ago,
Billy Patterson was the acknowledged
bully. One day, when, as usual, he
was spoiling for a fight and found no
oncomers, he amused himself by
standing on the sidewalk and edging
passersby into the street. He was
particularly insulting to a crowd of
medical students, and one of them,
Albin Payne, turned and knocked him
down with such force that the blow
was believed to be fatal. The men
fled, and when the police drummed
up the student quarters with the in
quiry, “Who struck Billy Patterson?”
nobody knew. That is said to have
accounted for the long unsolved mys
tery. The story is accepted until a
better explanation is offered.
DO YOU HAVE CATARRH,
The almost universal bane of mankind?
Then use Dr. Christian’s Catarrh Balm.
Guaranteed to cure. Free sample. Write
Dr. J. M. Christian. Hazelhurst. Ga.
ENTERING THE PORT.
When at last we’ve crossed Life’s
ocean
And, through the port of Death,
Enter on that mystic region
Told of by no mortal breath;
When that twilight port we enter,
Whence no sound has ever come,
May our faith fail not, nor falter;
May we feel we are nearing home;
May the shores of earth, receding,
Bring us only the brief pain
That our loved ones here we’re leav
ing
But to meet them soon again.
Rough has been our vessel’s passage,
But the end is full of peace,
Smooth the port to faithful spirits,
There all storms and terrors cease.
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