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Show II The Life Worth Living I' By WINIFRED BLACK a HANI out wast I the git , Ktsv tal ; ,, "T am to no trouble in . particular. " so wrote the man in 1 t the letter "1 am just Ursd of llr H- ing. that's n'l. 1 baxe cough money so that I dn I hn to H i work, and my heath in as good B rOuld expert ovy age. after H, fbe uerv racking life I have led. Hi Hul what there to live for? 1 ' I Ve seen it all. been it all. sad H I'e made up St salssl there ,. do H loager any Mich thing a nnaelAsli H love instill- noritl. The whole world has cooe erar.v on the elf question. ques-tion. Women marry for money. n,.a marry for ambition, 10 jet a partnership part-nership ion with father in law, mothers dres up ami parade the streets, daughters lie abed and let her Bftgrk, fathers won't give up their cigars and their eloha for anvthing on earth. All self. II sIf- r haf such .1 rId. so I am glad to die. ' " r'd at the xerv moment when that poor, foolish o . erw rouht man lav down t lie hcau there was no more neM.n !rtv e .n trc world. a sfssaan iiagj(er . , 4 ipgsi prairie with ber little boy in her arm?. Thev wore Ungat in a bltsxard. The woman tool: off her oat aud wrapped Iho little bo in it. and when thrv found her the DSZl mOTB' in.' she was dead, but the lit tic hoy lived and will live And every woman who read the story of what that mother did drew her own children closer to her heart and sa.il to herself. "I would do the same for you, my darling, yea. for the lest among you."' Ami whai -ihe said was true, too that'fl the best of it. She would do it and do it twice over for anv little helpless child of hers and count herself ble-sed to be able ts do it. n Here in the world do thc.-e : q pie liv who a'X mueh about the selfishness of modern life! What sort of folk do thev- count among thsix friends, aoyhowl No wt. 1 r,vhii.-ks :.-tt 10 lie world! No. por sunlight, nor break of day. nor bright moon at night, nor wind that .sings in the chimney corner nothing there is is true, if we believe what tbese people so- . Osjj a fsW VSari ago they tied inaue people up in noisome cellar, or rarried them around in cov-ere cov-ere I .a't-. an i BXhibitsd their d'a-tr- for niotic- A few xegrs ac" when a poor man was taken ill he affarj alone in bis hut or m bis frrtjraH d room, ywdsj I he has the best care, the best doctors the world eaa Zis. and the pubhe pay6 lor it all. A horse cannot .slip down in the street of any 1 Jy in this country todav without hain some one from a humane Mcistj push tlironch the crowd to re what the trouble i ami wbal OUgbt 10 DS done fir humanit y 't sake. And the mother-! The mothers arc the sanm as thrv hae always been and alwavs will 1m thank the good Maker of all things good. There may be a few re-(less, dis-eontente.l dis-eontente.l t;ii!urcs who dare to call thcuisel ves irothc'"!. but thev aren't th real thing, tncy are onlv the imitation, and a poor imitation ( 1 hat. All the mo-lern improvetnents on i-arth run '1 chancre honest, simple human nature, it'- not fair to think woman can't be ju-t as . eet and as good w ith a smart gown ;inl a pret t f bat on as slir can if she is a dowd and what they used to call a "has been.' in the day vhcn it wa considered nl gar to ue lani;. ''Women toarry for monev" not half as much a thev did flftv or SVaSJ twf.rv tivr ears ago. W men p-scticallv had to marrv for something in those dfaVa or be condemned con-demned to be tbe fifth wheel in ome one '. eoaeh the re d of their lives. Half the women who walked up to the altar twentv ears ujo heard the wedding Bsremony with lui-t one idea in t'neir head: "Ncll, anv how I'm not an old maid now ! That's all changed. No girl has 'o marrv to keep from bejng an old maid thee .lavs. There arc no Old Bsida fhere are bachelor wo men - and n ightv free anl mde-pcndcni mde-pcndcni and harpy creatures a "j whole Jot pi them are, too. If vou a-! me. Anv level-headed, sensible, sensi-ble, onergetn irl enn make bet own living th-c day.-, and do what he lihea with her life so she doesn't marrv Dulosfl sin- really wants to. "Men marry for ambition." luo 't believe it. Any ninn who is a u:;tn would marrv a girl with-oul with-oul a cent to her name rather than be dependent upon his wife for BOCeeeSi Men were never so free to marry the .rt of cir they really likea.s thev are todav. TheV ineet all kinds now- -society bpsf-ness. bpsf-ness. prot'e.s-ional- all they' have to do i- to cboOSS, and make the light cirl see it tbe right way. Mothers parade the street-, do tbe f What mothers? I don t see utanv ol tins sort arnnnd w!ierj I live. Most mothers are .ntin lv too busy to parade anywhere. (i'rls lie abed while mothers work! What sort ol girlj do this! None that I know. The modern "irl feu no time to lie abed. She has to be up bet line- to keep up with the procession. Nothing to live for! Poor m.-n? Now it vou hid odK waited a day or so vou might have read n'l about the poor little l left alms in the eorl-I when his mother froe to death to save him. ami then VOS could have takeu that bov Mn, Ssed BOOM ot that useless nionev of 'our- to bring him up and give Lim a chance in life. Nothing to live for. with the great world full ol people who ne,-de,J your he)p. needed vour comfort, eeeded yoqt eaeaaTfaurs. ment. Nothing to live for! Why, von ncer really lived at all. that's what w:i tho matter vith vou. poor mil. Wha1 a plt vou didn't have to keep J Ofhin for a liing. That might hav0 kept you slive. |