Chapters from life a tale of "our Baylor." Page: 28
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28 CHAPTERS FROM LIFE:
would be a slave; a slave to poverty; a slave to
bitter, pinching necessity but to-day she could
still hold her head above them all and not till
the morrow came would she acknowledge her
necessity.
When the morrow came Louise took up calmly
the life of drudgery that had fallen to her share.
She made no sign, for pride still sealed her lips,
and none suspected the struggle that had ended
in despair. Immediately she put her whole soul
into the task of learning and fulfilling her duties.
Thus days passed. Louise earned the praise of
her employers, the envy of most of her associate
clerks and the name of a cold, unsociable girl
from all.
But the days and weeks and months that
dragged over the girl's weary head were not
spent in vain. Before she had learned life from
books; now she learned it from her own experiences
and she read it in the faces of the living
characters around her. While the other girls
were flirting and giggling Louise was wondering.
She wondered why it was that so many girls
were working who had plenty at home; why it
was that people did not see that independence,
so called, in youth often led to the most abject
dependence in old age; why these very girls
could not realize that the earning of a few
dollars in early young womanhood, and therby
the stunting of their minds and souls, led to
poverty and restlessness and wretchedness later
in life.
But they were not all silly. Here and there
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Cheaney, Winifred A. Chapters from life a tale of "our Baylor.", book, 1901; Belton, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29407/m1/28/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Star of the Republic Museum.