Show Oll Girls in Busin s s By g Winifred ni nd r Black Black OUR Chicago O university girls have opened a haIrdressing establishment FOUR I In the sacred precinct of the Midway L They The are poor peor girls who Inter d to take this lila method ef Of working their way through college r They The 1 eY lope hope to get ge ge the patronage of f the college girls who are not BOt working their way a through and thy they ought to make a pretty penny of ot profit out of ot It ft So far so good goed The four tour girls are all bright students stud ts welt well known to the faculty but mu they are taking assumed names name in their businesS In InThey They say they do this because e thy tb y do not want WAIt their friends outside to know what they are doing dol g So far so bed bad s the th matter with you girls t If I you Y Il are ashamed of doing hair dressing why do you do it Friends fudge If you have any friends worth having be proud of you and proud of your out pluck Ingenuity and in If It not proud of you not Dot worth having Any Anyone one who despises you for tor doing honest work one onesy ay is ia a very good person to de do despise The idea of a girl who has had bt sense enee enough and enterprise e enough to think out a brand new way of or earning a 1 good education being afraid of the opinion of a snob Why its like a great lion hiding his head bead anti and beginning to tremble when he sees aces a mouse The snob girl is the one to tremble sisters Make fun of her laugh at her let her know Just what a goose goo e she ahe is iL Dont worry about her opinion Your Yur opinion is the thing that counts Pride real pride is a splendid thing It Win carry you through where noth ing tog else on earth will do it but it must be real reed pride not vanity The pride of the kind BO so deep rooted roofed IB la a sense of ones own real use in the world that nothing can shake It ItI ItI ItI I heard two women talking In a theatre one ORe night One was the leading woman and ono was the soubrette They were talking about the ballet bellet girls J I 1 ssi sa say said the leading woman you knew that tall girt girl in the second row Yes said the soubrette Well Weli she Me has a history I b be Afraid to bet that some girl of or good rood family and fine social position just in the ballet to learn the business What makes you think so soT said the soubrette Why she offered to help me dress dross tonight when she saw I was wag In a hurry hUrr Goodness Go said the soubrette here eyes getting large and ani round she must be he one of the Four Hundred And she was wasI 1 I investigated and found out of course MiSs Rebecca ky of or the tenements or Miss Mary Iary Dunnigan of the flats fiats would never offer to help helo a leading woman dress What Me a servant she shed d say Indeed Tm rn r too much of a lady tedy to demean myself The real society girl afraid of demeaning herself herselt She knew who she was and what her position in the tM world was too well to fear losing it by a little common civility I never hear bear a woman say that too toe proud to do some kind of or honest work and let her friends and neighbors kaow that doing it without thinking of the lady In the ballet They know how to do these theae things down south Have you ou ever been there Go into any shop in any southern city in America and you are quite likely to be waited upon by 1 a girl whose e voice manner and every line Une in her face tells a story of good Od blood lood and good birth Is she ashamed of working for a living Not she ahe one of ot the Car rols rots of Carrolton Everybody Ever body knows her and everybody respects her for toe f facing S th the hard situation left tl by the war mr with the courage and the genuine b pride of the Carrels Carrol of Carrolton The old story of the Duke of or Argyle Arule is fa a good goed one Do you remember It He fell cli In with a strange company In some seine traveling adventure and was d at a P table in a motley crowd Some one found fouRd out who he was and bustled hustled up to him with a It great show of obsequious oD civility Your Thur grace he said we did not know you Come take the UIe head of or the table The duke smiled kindly up at the man My good fellow he ne said wherever I sit is the head bead of the tab table Now a commoner would never have Saw said sai that It took a duke to do it or a plain American citizen Be a duke girls and If It you cant be De a duke be a dukess Fortify yourself so 80 strongly In honest pride prIcIe that all who look at you shall shaU know that wherever you sit is the head hd of ot the table whether you sit alt at a mahogany board with a damask cloth in the company of the great of th earth or whether you draw up to a common little pine table with a red and ani yellow enow oilcloth cover on it Open your hairdressing shop and put p J ut your name on It In good goon leg bit let toes so that every passerby may notice that four Independent plucky quick witted enterprising American girls girts have gone to work and that they are not ashamed of It WINIFRED BLACK |