Josie O'Gorman and the Meddlesome Major

The package tore and disclosed a mass of filmy lace.—Chapter VII
Josie O’Gorman and the Meddlesome Major
By Edith Van Dyne Author of The Mary Louise Stories, and Josie O’Gorman
Frontispiece by Isabel Bush Mack
The Reilly & Lee Co. Chicago
Printed in the United States of America Copyright, 1924 by The Reilly & Lee Co. All Rights Reserved Josie O’Gorman and the Meddlesome Major

Josie and the Meddlesome Major
“Not much on looks!”
“Who?”
“That new girl the boss has just hired. Got no style to speak of. I reckon they’ll begin her at the notion counter. It don’t take much looks to hold down a job there.”
“Brains, perhaps!” suggested a trim looking girl with twinkling grey eyes and wavy brown hair, noticeable in that it was not so elaborately coiffured as her companions’. “My opinion is, Gertie Wheelan, that Mr. Burnett thinks more about brains than beauty where his business is concerned.”