“I am awfully glad, Beth Baldwin, that you went to work for Mrs. Ricardo Severn. Otherwise, I am quite sure that I would never expect soon to sign myself, ‘Mrs. Roland Severn, née J. Molly Granger, no longer F. W.’”
“What’s the good, I want to know,” said Marcus Baldwin, one night, evidently having thought hard and long upon the problem, “for you girls to go in for the highbrow ed. and then get married right smack off?”
“Not marrying ‘right smack off!’” denied Ella, vigorously. “Our Beth is going to teach at least two years.”
“Well, that jolly girl isn’t.”
“She’s going to teach after she is married, and so is Mr. Severn,” laughed Beth, “unless Mrs. Ricardo Severn remembers him very liberally indeed.”
“Well, a whole lot of you higher-ed. girls do marry right off,” repeated Marcus.
“And why not? We’re better fitted for life, no matter what it brings to us, if we have had a good education. Oh,” declared Beth, now quite grown up, “I am not sorry that I fulfilled my resolve.”
THE END
SOMETHING ABOUT
AMY BELL MARLOWE
AND HER BOOKS FOR GIRLS
In these days, when the printing presses are turning out so many books for girls that are good, bad and indifferent, it is refreshing to come upon the works of such a gifted authoress as Miss Amy Bell Marlowe, who is now under contract to write exclusively for Messrs. Grosset & Dunlap.