Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1915 — Maggie’s Effort. [ARTICLE]

Maggie’s Effort.

Now that the washing hung on the line, Mrs. Moran was leaning over the back fence and discussing with sympathetic Mrs. Regan the problem of fringing up a daughter. Privately, Mrs. Regan considered that Maggie Moran was born lazy, but Maggie's mother held that Maggie’s case was not so simple. "It ain’t that Maggie’s not willin’” said Mrs. Moran. Willin’ she is, and active on her bicycle, and always ready to run an errand for you. But she ain’t one that hears work callin’ or sees it a-lookln’ at her. "It’s easier to do a thing yerself than to be tellin’ others,” said Mrs. Regan, "And that's the truth," agreed Mrs. Moran. "But Maggie ain’t to blame, although maybe she's a little too easy discouraged. I’ve seen her tryln’. Last winter I says to her, 'Maggie,’ I says, ‘every time you find something to do to help mother round the house I’ll give ye a cent.’ That started her hard at it, Mrs. Regan, and ’twas a foil two weeks before she got discouraged and give It up." ‘And how much did she make?" asked Mrs. Regan. "Nine cents," said Mrs. Moran, "but I called it a dime." The older a man gets the less he knows ho knows. Some men would die young if they Wwru uanpeUed t» Urerk for a living.