Show I t The T he Lonesome Girl I IJ By Winifred Black J coP Copyright I 1 by Newspaper p r Service i Dear rno mo mo how homesick she sho Is la Poor girl girl so so homesick that It brought tho the tears to m my eyes to read h her r lett letter r and It t-aH t vas a ga gay little hUle letter too or tried to be frank Crank and nice and human hurnon and unaffected 1 I could just seo eo her as 18 she sho he at writInG writIng writing writ writ- ing It It bless her hor heart heart trying so o hard not to ho bo weepy ar whiny The Tho weepy weep whiny girl has hns quite gone out of ot fashion these days hasn't she And this little girl It lIS strictly In the fashion Cashion bo be sure of oC that You could tell It by b her her writing and b by her stationery and even en b by the way aY the postage stamp was put Jut O on the en- en vol and then there thero was something straightforward and honest an and direct about the tho letter that went right to my heart Sho She Is a western girl you OU sec ee CC used to the tho outdoors prairies and plains and hl high h mountains and deep deop valleys and great rushing rivers and clear lakes and tall trots trees and winding trails traUs not not paths There Is a a. great difference differ enco ence between a path and a trail If you ou dont don't know Inow what that thal difference Is you OU have never been west that l Is all there therl Is about It H th there rc Is no use uso making making mak maR ing lug yourself believe you have And she Is uS used d to horses and dogs and men oh lots of ot men brothers and cousins and neighbors and Ions eons of ot neighbors and everybody knowing her b by her first name nameS and everybody knowing when her birthday Is 18 and nobody carInG carIng car- car Ing lug whether she sho is bt dressed up or not not- Your Ue D nr r rAnd And now ano ne Is 11 In lii New York all nIl alone and she Is so homesick she sho I is wishing she sho he were dead and yet et she cant can't go back not west not for tOl a n. year year oar and sho she I Is sure suie nobody likes her hor and she sho is t sure ure she doesn't Jo e I Ian an any one and oh however howe Is she sho going I to live In the tho mean up cramped city with nowhere to GO O and nothing to do 10 and what shall she sho do about It Il she asks mu mo Now Ill I'll tell you ou what I would do ito about it if I were wen you OU little Miss lIss Wild and Woolly West cst I would be he Just an home homesick ick as I wanted to fur for m mv flY mountains mountains moun moun- talus and m my canyons and m inS mS glorious free freo life I wouldn't put one of or them out of oC m my n hoart heart for tor ono single minute but ut I would keep them Just for a background background background back back- ground to mako make rn rue feel feci sorry for fOl the poor little pinched ln creatures who have lave never seen an any of ot these glories and I would start right to work being Just as ns nice to everybody all around mo me as ns I could I would make mako up my ray mind that nine nino times out of oC ten the person who was cool or rudo rude to me wasn't trying to be mean to me mo at all she nil she was Just thinkIng thinking thinking think think- ing about something else or worried or OI 01 homesick herself herselt maybe mabe and I would try to comfort every lonesome person I knew In the city of or Now New York New w New York Is full Cull of oC lonesome people and llie first thin thing you OU know little Miss 1199 Woolly West est you OU will have havo so runny friends antI and so man many chums and so many bright Interests outside that you OU will wilt keep leep making tho the ranch house that you ou are always alwa's building in your dreams bigger and bl bigger ger day b by day dayto dayto dayto to have hao room for all of ot your our New r-ew York friends that you aro are going to take tale we west t some day a and show them how really to live and that hint Is I what I try to feel little sick homesick girl Irl Now ow docs does that comfort you oti an any littie lit lit Ut- tie Miss Wild and Woolly West The Tue Wonder omler Word Word home Home t Half Hate the tho girls who do foolish and an wicked t things s in the tho city arc Lre foolish and wicked Just because the they are arc lonesome lonesome lonesome lone lone- I some and homesick and andant want ant somebody to lovo love them and somebody y to mako make a fuss tuss over them Half of or the tho pale p pasty-faced pasty office girls that th you OU sec eo In a ul bi big town talk taUe talka a whole lot about smart shoes shoei and the latest timing thing In hats and they think about them a whole lot too but at least CYer every other one of ot them Is Just kitchen crazy to get et into somebody's and beat up a plate of ot tu fudge ge or make a chocolate cake cako to have for tor Sunday Sunda nl night ht ten tea Graven n down own In the most carel careless careless care care- l less ss frivolous olous heart of ot tho vainest most mOISt foolish woman is almo almost almot t. t sure to tobo tobo tobo bo one worth word Home Oh how blurred and spotted and Il Illegible II- II legible that word g gets ts sometimes but butHs butH's Its It's almost always alwa's there |