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Shall a Girl Work to Sup
port Her Lazy Brothers?
A "Lovable" Girl!
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Or, Perhaps, an Idea
for the Coquette
By Nell Brinkley
t'opynght. I'.'l.i
Intern I Nmi fcrvlce.
Hj DOROTHY D1X.
Among my r-.cqualntatit -ee is a splendid
young -woman, who bold a responsible
position In i hlg business house. S?he re
ceive a good salary, enough to enable
her to dress well
and Indulge her
self In many
luxui Irs, but she is
always poorly clad,
scrimps on her
lunch and car far,
and has gotten the
reputation among
her coworkera who
observe how ahe
looks at a nickel
before she lets It
go, of being little
short of a miser.
The girl seen the
contempt uoun
glances with
which her as
sociates regard her
parsimony, and
they stab her like
so many knives, for she Is In reality the
most generous soul alive. She would like
to be free handed. Also, being a woman,
and young and good looking, she would
like to have pretty clothes, and to go to
the places of amusement whose doors
she never enters because she cannot af
ford to spend a cent on self-Indulgence.
And the reason why? 1
This girl's mother, without perhaps
realizing what a crime ah la committing,
is deliberately making her daughter a
slave to Bupport three laxy brothers. And
many other mothers are doing the same
thing.
In this particular home not a dollar
comes Into, it that Is not earned by the
girl. She pays the rent, and for the light,
the heat, and the food. -The mother hai
no income and ' furnishes nothing, yet
she persists In thinking of the home as
her home and says, "that while I have a
roof over my head my boys shall have a
- place to stay."
Kvery morning the girl gets up early
und goes to work, leaving her three able
bodied brothers ea'mly snoring,, secure
that, when they choose to arise, along to
ward noon, that mother will have some
special dainty prepared for them. And
mother thinks that this is all right. .She
makes a thousand excuses for their idle
ness, and considers that her daughter Is
very mean and hard-hearted' when she
objects to supporting a bunch of Idlers
and would like some of the money that
ahe earns to spend upon herself.
And the girl la helpless because she
... wants to take care of her mother, and
ehe can't take care of mother without
mother supporting her good-for-nothing
aona.
Of- cburse this tfrl, and every' other
woman who supports a strong, healthy
man, Is an easy mark that the fool killer
will assuredly get some- fine day. She
gets neither thanks nor ha'pence, for
the man who deliberately alta down and
lets a woman take care of him la Invari
ably a yellow cur that bites the hand that
feeds him.
Therefore. I would advise this young
woman and every one confronted with
the same problem to simply shut the
doors on their loafing brothers, and force
them to go to work. In that way they
will not only rid themselves of a burden
that they are under no obligation to bear.
but will do the one thing that Is possible
to make a self-respecting and decent man
out of an Idler.
Laalncsa Is a disease that requires
heroic , remedies to cure, and the best
antidote for it over devised Is alniply to
i huck a man out Into the world where he j
must oimrr wora or starve. Hunger tins
done more to allay that tired feeling with
which so many men arc born than any
other one thing in the world.
As long as a loafer knows that, he's got
a warm place to sit, a good bed to sleep
In and three square meals a day to eat
he Isn't going to wear himself out look
ing for work, and he's going to be mighty
particular about tho sort of a job he
takes. But If he Knows that only his
own labor stands between him and want,
he'll get right down to the real pursuit
of a Job, and In work he'll find the Inde
pendence that makes him a man.
The ease of this girl who Is forced by
her mother to support her three laiy
brothers Is not an Isolated one. I have
known many other such ones myself, and
1 get hundreds of letters from working
girls telling exactly the same story and
making the same complaint. They love
their mothers, they feel a high sense of
duty and desire to divlds their earnings
with their parents, but they fell It a
hardship thst they have to support
brothers far more able to work than
they are.
These girls are right. It is most
cruelly unjust that their mothers should
rob them of their hardearned wages to
give the money to trifling and often
drunken sons, and the girls should have
the courage to rebel and refuse to sub
mit to such treatment. The one who
earns tho money that eupporta a home
is in law the head of it, and tho girl
who pays the bills has a right to say
who shall live In that home and eat
the food that ahe buyj. Certainly no
sister is under any obligation to slave
herself to death to buy whiskey and
cigarettes for an Idle man, even though
he is mother's darling and mother
thinks that ahe ought to.
It is. a strange perversity pf mother
love that makes a woman willing to
sacrifice her daughters to her sons, but
that appears to be the way that nature
built a .mother's heart. When a girl goes
to work mother thinks that she should
turn over her pay envelope to her, and
that she should help with the housework
when she Is at home, but she never
dreams of her son turning over his pay
envelope to her or doing the dishes after
supper, and if ha even fcays his board
she goes about bragging about what ' a j
good boy he Js. v ; , :
,But because mother la willing to sup
port her loafing sons is no reason why
Sister Susie should, and If Sister Susie
has an Inch of backbone she won't do it.
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SIXTH EP1SODK.
The Siege of the House of O'Keefe.
CHAPTER 1. (Continued.)
"lJoes she live down this way?" asked
Ned.
"Never saw her before." Officer Moran
Impressed Ned's features on his memory.
"I think she took an uptown car."
He hurried away.
Officer Tools was not quite so quick in
his mind, because he was more elaborate.
He held a thick foreflnrer In the deep
dimple of his chin.
"A girl with a fur cap and a green tas
sel over one car," he repeated, making
the normal gesture for the tassel, as the
black Vandyked man had done. "Oh,
yea. a girl with a green tassel over one
ear! Yea, there was a girl with a red
tassel p'.ayln" shinny here thla mornin.'
but she was a little girl. Pat. Casey's
.Maggie. And there was a girl with a
blue tasrel down here yesterday workln'
for on orphan' benefit." All this way
of asocmbliug his mind while he studied
Jilbcrt Blye whisker by whisker. "But
th! girl with the . green tassel rather a
inau young laay, round-like, and a
pretty face with a smile?"
"Yes!" Blye was all eagerness.
"Well, 1 don't know anything about her
incir, but I think I saw such a girl
m a question of Officer Morrieey
io chocks beyond.
Ulye looked up the street to where
against the hill. Officer Morrisey stood
-w... .no iur, handling his tangle f
uray ira'Hc.
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.- .u.t ycu. Amj isiye struck out for
winc-rr jurrisey.
That busy p reon scarcely looked at the
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man with the black Vandyke; Just one
roll of his gray eye.
"No."
"Oh!" Mr. Elyd was very much disap
pointed. "The officer below s&ld that he
had Been such a girl talking to you."
"Yes, I remember. She asked me the
time of day, and she headed over this
way."
over thla way" was at right angles!
to isiyes previous course. By the time
he reaohed Traffic, Off leer Schmeltz Pa
trolman O Malley had carried the word
to that corner from Officer Toole, so that
Fchmelta was prepared for the coming of
oiye, and Dy the time Blye aot wv
from Sehmelus tha worli was all through
the district.
"Have you seen a girl wearing; a fur
cap with a green tassel over one ear?"
uuoert Blye had asked this question f
fourteen policemen. Something struck
him as familiar In the way this one held
a thick forefinger In the deep dimple of
nis cnin. it was Offcer TonU ot,.i
"Hure." said Officer Toole, with 're
markable promptness. "She went bv here
not a minute ago. Right that way."
And he pointed up the hill toward Of
ficer Morrisey; then as Blye started off,
paming, ne neld his side. "Oh
was dull times on the beat these nights
when Offic., v, ""'"V uarKueei tn window. It Is such an lmpolbe day
b?oad anouVh P rrled not outside. The muddy rivulet, are gurg-
tZZT J?.J"TV lhe trl'ling at the edge of tho pavement trying
. .... muauLcne, ana the!
sun. ocainng, oroaaened Into a huge
Our Everyday Life
ny ukatrict; i-airfax.
Ooe excitement mean living? Is It the
actual foundation of life? Or are the
simple nf feet lens and loves, the honest
. rnthusissm, the every-day Interests and
the ever stimulating routine of ambition
end work the things that make life?
I Very often nn laying down a "beet
seller." lit which the excitable heroine
'l.'ikeji sll sorts of world tours of srtven
ture and emotion, we have n empty
scut of feeling as to our own lives.
"lond heavens!" thinks usn, "noth
ing like I hat ever happens to me. My
life's such a simple thing that It really
! Isn't worth the living. It's Just like
I dosenn of others, all .-ff the same pattern,
j all perfectly negative."
Hut it doesn't occxir to Susan that the
chapter nf incidents about which she has
I been ri nding, even If true to life. Is a
I lather highly-colored cross-section cov
! er ng only weeks, months or years. A
life that i all Jumps Into big things and
out again, from the cradle to the grave,
would le a very agonising aXfatr. It
would be soul racking, soul stirring and
so full ol emotional crises that the per
son to whom they were happening would
never get a chance to alt back and en
Jov things thst were happening to her.
The full flavor of a South African
lach Is not to be obtained by swal
lowing It whole. The recipe for readln
good books has to be followed. They
r lould be "tasted, chewed and digested."
Ho wllh everything In life If one means
to enjoy It.
Uvea that look lerrlbly dull when
viewed by the romsntlc young woman or
adventurous gentleman, who has lust
been reading the latest thriller, probably
have enough spread out throughout their
three score and ten to pack a play or a
movie or a novelette full of human In
terest. Mental spxims are not necessary nor
are wonderful soul thrills. Most f u
show moderation and self-control In our
affairs. We don't have to wreck a. life
or two In order to fear our own existence
on tho ruins. Torturing decisions as In
r.ght and wrong and great moment of
agonlr.ing sclf-nerlflce come to -few ef
us. Crest loves like those of i Tristan
end Isolde, or Petrarch and Ijiura are
nnl happening by dosens In any com
munity. The miseries that beset "I
Miserable." the frightful temptations
which made I.ucretla Borgia infamous,
are experienced by shout on In ten mil
lion of the earth's clllsens.
But are these necessary to life? If
nothing, startling happens to us must our
lives be terribly dull?
Never. There Is infinite romance to be
; ouml all through life, hut if ona never
j experienced anything else, existence
i would be a sugsr-plummy affair In which
I one's soul would be always a little bilious.
I All through life with Its work and' de
veloping experience end simple living,
there are little "high lights" of lore and
Joy and pain and unklndness and growth
land suffering and ambition and effort.
And they dot the stream ef life with
Intends on which to rest and rapids which
'.must be negotiated.
! Nothing very big or startling happens
I In most lives. It is quite unnecessary
J that one should have soul crises or mag
nificent momenta As Browning says:
llow good is man's life; the mere llvingt
Jlow fit to employ
All the heart and the soul and the senses
Forever in Joy.
Snap Shots
Six another woman ' up to take her
down In one and the same glance when
she sees her out with a past sweetheart
of her own.
Appear to her bubanda as riddle that
he dare not give up tiven after she has
ceased to keep him guessing.
Achieve real popularity with mankind'
after she learns to treat th young ones
with respect and the old ones with good
fellowship. , ' -
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Keel thst any other woman Is original
If she sees her doing all the tblrgs she
has longed to do and his never atd.
WOMEN
By liAlKA RINGHTON
A really wet day Is generally an excuse
for sitting In front of the fire. Immersed
In the pages of the latest novel by a
favorite author. Nothing calls so strenu
ously as a good flie anil a comfortable
well, it'chaJr. while outside the wind is blowing,
and the rain Is beating heavily against
It with remarkable quiet-
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laugh.
Blye stood
ness.
"It seemi to me I've been furnishing
a little amusement for the boys," h?
surmised, frowning.
"You have." laughed Moran. "Its what
in Scotland they call 'chasing the gowk.'
As for this girl you mentioned, " and h
swung his club happily. "I don't suppose
one of u has ever laid eyea on her."
Blye'a black eyes dwelt on Moran pierc
ingly; then his suave smile rum.
"Have a cigar." And he paiwed over
one which Officer Moran kept for
Christiana.
Blye stopped smiling as he walked
away, and hia eyea narrowed In concen
trated thought. He stroked his black
Vandyke with hi
gers. They had had
to escape underneath, while In the country
the very thought of the. muddy lanes U
simply awallng. Only a man-woman
would venture out n defiance of the
storm.
Thas It one side of the picture; a
friend of mine has tr.otlier story to
tell. Sha declares that her good com
plexion Is due to walki in rainy weather.
"Waterproof hat and coat, with warm
stockings and reasonably thick boots, and
nothing will harm you. I.'mbreUaJ? They
are more bother than, they are worth."
This friend's equipment was Just as she
raid. She had a waterproof hat nhlrh
delightful walking In the summer tlms
limy represent a shallow swamp during
the depth of winter or spring, and there
Is no fun In wading throi.gh a few Inches
of mingled mud and water, covered by a
So many persons have an idea that it
U positively tin.eaithy to go out In the
ram. .
"You will catch your death of cold,"
they exclaim, with a look of horror, hut.
covered by a layer of wet grass, jjffx-
perlence will soon teach the nicest roads,
to take. The beauty of the fading leaf Is
quite different from tlfat of the summer
greenery, ami a beautiful landscape will
layer of wet grass. Experience will noon I provided one in dressed suitably there la j be Inexpressibly dreary when all the
teach the nicest roads to take. The
beauty of the fading leaf is quite dif
ferent from that of the aummer greenery,
and a beautiful landscape will be Inex
pressibly dreary when all the leavea are
falling. For this reason the beautiful
scenes of Rinnmer walks 'will glvp plac e
to delightful ones' where ' the winter's
grandeur of frost and snow will well re
pay a walk.
no reason why a coin should he easier
caught during a wet day's walk than
doling a summer one.
It la better to keep to well made roads
and avoid fields. A field that would
make delightful walking in the summer
time may represent a shallow swsnip
uuring the depth of winter or spring,
and there Is no fun In wading through
a few inches of mingled water und mini,'
n finully pet lulu (omethlriK flue, und ul
leaves am falling. For this resson the !
beautiful scenes of summer walks will !
rive place to delightful ones where the!
winter's grandeur of frost snd snow will :
well repay a walk.
"So many persons huve ail Idea that It!
is positively- unhealthy to go out In the!
rain.
"You will catch your your liestli of
cold," they exclaim, with a look of horror.
but, provided one is dressed suitably
j there Is really no reason why a cold
j should lie easier caught .luring
j mat weep1 when I tbreulen to give him """'' "' easier caught during a wet
1 J-!-. i T 1 . II "P. but for a year he has promised lu'oay's walk than duriiitf it dry on.
AUVlCe 10 llOVeiOm "'" i- """"l ' I'"' ihnncr are really equal.
1 I The real c ause of cold catching Ilea in
BZATBICB AJtmrAXiJ e-opi..... you try the effect of putting thc ftt,.t ,,aL for lw lrtu,r Mn o(
In Auxloua ;lrl Friend.
I'ear Miss Fairfax: 1 have been as
sociated with a lady friem. for the lust
three year. Of late she lias fallen inlu
the company of another girl, whose
rr-putittion Is not what It ought to be. I
Oet a small package of Hamburg Breast
Tea, or as the German folks call it,
"Hamburger Brust Thee." at any phar
macy. Take a tablespoonful of the tea,
put a cup of boiling water upon it. pour
thaough a sieve and drink a teacup full
at any time. It is the most effective way
to break a cold and cure grip, as it opens
.he pores, relieving congestion. Am
loosens the ho els, thus breaking a cold
at or.ee. ,
It i inexnrnuvc and entirely kegelable
he re . ?. iiMili tt Vdieiicni-iiV
the.e, thick policemen. They had made j , , cW ,nstances
lln A a li w a J I - , . m a I
.... uD.ii iiikjij iium cumer to corner,
I over many weary blocks, but
knowing that they were doing so they
naa convinced him q one thing that
June lived in this vicinity and that they
all knew of her.
He was passing the corners as ha ar
rived at this uncertainty. The corners
were a tar.gled knot of street and alley
intersections where one might angle orf
In almoet any direction and go nowhere.
Ned Warner at that moment was send
ing a ecore of detectives into the neighborhood.
"To Be lonlinued Tomorrow.) '
icovered her hair, and loose mackintosh "' "er mother, and she axked me l.
which completely hid n.r skirt, and hot- ,,,,.7.
toned close to her throat, the tailor at j company, but would like to suve her
the back fitting up under her hat. Press reputation, provided mine will not be
the mac kintosh well fastened j p". ' . K
It alwaya seems such a ' '"" be one whose in-
siiouki Keep uer out oi bad o-
mever, you might tell her that
I you like her too w ell to see her In ques
tionable company, and might ask her to
IcImv tve liv lMhti alltliiir 111 u -, .
wait for six months while he make, an n.,irre ,, u(l. ,u,al(llJ fcIlU vlM(iUd
ana inoe lor your marriage, once lie i
acea you aie in earnest about it his'
ambition may br aroused, Ki.oin the '
Ui-ne of yoiir letter I am not at all sine I
that you love this man. You seem to be 1
clips keeps
at the liotton
s long, lean, white fin- defect ln mckintosn that the buttons
isd their Joke with him. ,,0 not bult0ii ail the way down, except ,y', .
Fot wet weather walking skirts ahoold
without Ik. aiu... two inches shorter than the
mackintosh, and the latter should be
short enough to escape the mud. but not
so short that the rain ran beat against
the stockings.
waikin? t.. I. is a i iefi.1 article. ...
It -does a good deal of help when walking
along muddy lanes. As a rule, in the wet
weather walks count iv lanes must be
avoided, especially ones that lead ever a
lavev soil, aa this i lirgs to the boots
and makes walking vrv mine
It 's better to keep to welt made i
choose between you.
I't II I on Prohatlua.
lear Mies Fairfax: I am 24 years oli
and have liern receiving attention from a
young man of 2k ymra for two years.
mce he has been culling on me he 1ms
given up many bad habits and haa learned
to love ni. Mo Is a carpenter, but earns
very little. I am a hookkceiier earning a
fairly gx aalary, but as I like oiler
Women lone for n hfinia ll mv s, a n
jam) ii rot cherish tne iuca of going to
bualnesa fo the lest of my life, I won-
Irter ir it Is prctl. for me do. htin
ad ' " n". tec l.prl (.r a htle or
i i .1 .iv. ' I fi- .I f ,li- .,i i .. , . :" asKii'-'Hiin- and v iM f.,r hi n
assoi'iatiug with Mm rather w (TTi a
aire to avoid I. 'inn lonely and "an
maid ' tiiau bci'iuae of love.
An Oalragrvu. lalli.
de-old
token In clothea I
that aru tcMi thin or not i.ioteetive enough,
A eohl Is caught .ml the weather Is
Hhiiu'iI. Really brisk walka tn wet
weather will never do one any barm.
j There is another M3 of wet weather
j walks they are really i plendid tonics for
i the skin. The .oft beat of the rain touc hes '
tip the nerves and flesh of the face, and
1 1 tie glow of health mounts to the cheeks.
Hut do not make a mistake snj go too
I am a girl 16 eaiai,U""' lo f,r '"'mediately after com
pear Mies Fall fax
old and ci usiriere 1 beautiful. I am en-i Inf 'n. The sudden rhaii'ce fnim the cold
gaged to be marred to a man of Tu years, ciiiuip asinoHphtre to the hot air alven
year. old. This ilaughlrr Is Jealous of '"I uncomfortable, and the wind will ba
oersue. ir i clo not marrv him. he
will Inherit hlk fortune. Klndlv aclviM!
m what to do under rnich clr. unmtances,
aa 1 would like to keep her f rlendHlnp.
F. II. F.
Assuring your own liapplneaa Is Juat as
important as keeping the friendship c.f
the grind. la ok I. lei of the man to whom
you are engaged. Hixtevn and seventy
should not mate. Imn't dream of marry-
In't for
youi l"
'era I ycai,
i ;. o lit :i j
snd t lien
i !.cr..lii n.
blamed. On coming In from a walk on a
wet day dry the face with a very soft
towel, and rub gently fcr a few seconds.
Remove the coal, iiat and boots, and
then ait for a few minutes well away
from the fire until the face Is used to
the changed conditions of the atmos
phere. The simple precaution will save
the face from any disastrous effects, and
find t lie skin will lie much Improved by
i r Ik on a w et da
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