Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — The Force of Habit. [ARTICLE]

The Force of Habit.

Chicago Record. CHAPTER I. Evangeline O’Glary came home from theball wearied and distrait. Prior to the ball she had been working all day in the telephone office. Despite the fatigue and weariness which crushed her, however she felt it would would be impossible to sleep with the memory of Archibald Rooney’s manly voice ringing in her ears. -She bad been beautiful that night, she knew, but Archibald had been cold and distant save for one word of formal greeting in his resoi an .baritone tones. Restlessly she thought it over while toss ing sadly upon her couch and gazing through the damask curtain out upon the pallid, gibbous moon. “He loves another!” she murmured in an ecstasy of pain. “Even though I have ever discriminated in his favor when any one calls up central for his number.” CHAPTER IT. Worn out with fatigue and sorrow and heedless of the fact that she must be at the down-town telephone exchange at 8 in the morning Evangeline did not fall asleep until the onyx and ovoid ormula clock on the mantel told the hour of three. Then she slept. chapter in. “Evangeline! Evangelinel” It was her mother’s voice calling her in the morning. “Evangeline! Get up! You told me to call you at seven, and it’s seven-thirty.” Evangeline turned uneasily in her slumber. The spoken numbers bad dimly reached the innermost recesses of her brain. Her ripe lips moved. “Busy now,” she murmured mechanically. “Call era up again.” A few days since a woman entered a certain hat store. She had in tow a boy of about 10 years of age. That is his body was 10 years old, but his face looked like a man of 30. “I want a cheap hat for this boy. I don't care what it is, so long as it is cheap.” The hatter pulled over his stock, and finally presented to the woman a hat worth about 50 cents. “I guess this will satisfy you,” he said. “It is 50 cents.” “All right; I’ll take it. I wanted something cheap for the to boy have fits in;” and then she went out.