The New England magazine . practice do anapple pie. She would spend all dayjust cooking the things he liked. Itdid not matter in the dark whether hercheeks took on color or not. She letherself go. It was rather too bad,however, that a mirror could not haveshown her how much younger thesethoughts made her. She would try to persuade him tosave his money too. In time he mightbe promoted on the ferry-boat. Hemight even be made captain. He de-served to be. She had often jolliedCaptain Regan on her morning tripto the cafe, and he wasnt half theman that Gene was. Then in time —? she whispered thistho
The New England magazine . practice do anapple pie. She would spend all dayjust cooking the things he liked. Itdid not matter in the dark whether hercheeks took on color or not. She letherself go. It was rather too bad,however, that a mirror could not haveshown her how much younger thesethoughts made her. She would try to persuade him tosave his money too. In time he mightbe promoted on the ferry-boat. Hemight even be made captain. He de-served to be. She had often jolliedCaptain Regan on her morning tripto the cafe, and he wasnt half theman that Gene was. Then in time —? she whispered thisthought to herself — in time theremight be a kiddy. There might be alittle kiddy who looked like might have sandy hair and blueeyes ?— a little warm round ball ofsandy hair and blue eyes. He wouldput his arms around her neck and callher Modder. She was heard the quick intake of her ownbreath. She rolled over and buriedher face in the pillow. Oh, my Gawd! she , my Gawd! (To be continued). Helping New England Grow ORGANIZED EFFORTS OF THE RAILROADS. THE INDUSTRIAL BUREAU OF THE NEW ENGLAND LINES; ITS CONSTRUCTIVE ACTIVITIES By SYLVESTER BAXTER NEARLY two million dollars innew industries brought intoNew England in little morethan a year! This achieve-ment represents the net result of onephase of the efforts made by anew agency organized to do justthat sort of thing. The agency bearsthis name, The New England LinesIndustrial Bureau. It is one of thefirst fruits of the management of theNew York, New Haven & HartfordRailroad, the Boston & Maine Rail-road, and the Maine Central Railroadin common. We have had endless talk aboutbuilding up New England, and allthat sort of thing. A good deal hasbeen said about booming andboosting and hustling—wordshardly yet domesticated in the NewEngland vocabulary except with refer-ence to doings west of the you go to any leading industrialcenter in New England, —say Spring-field, Pittsfield, Worcester
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