Show Evening I IBY BY RUTH EUTH CAMERON CARON CAMERONS EVERAL years year ago agro when J I I. I a v vcr very ry S young newspaper woman was precariously pre pre- precariously c subsisting on the pathetically pathetically cally eally small maJl stipend that my first papel paper paper pa pa- per pel deigned to consider me mc worth aYoung a u ayoung young newspaper man on the same pap pa- pa paper p per por r camo canto to me ino and with great reat embarrassment embar embar- blurted out that he was In a terrible mess financially and could I I-he I he hated like Jike thunder to ask it but he simply didn't know where to turn and he knew how kind-hearted kind I was was could could I lend him I I 5 just until 1 the Iho he nc next t pay day Now ow for several weeks I had hail been sayIng saving sav say I ing every penny that didn't have to go o towards my actual living Hying expenses for a asuit suit the suit the first thIng thins of the sort T J was to buy with my own earnings s. I had the suit all picked out It was a dark dad blue serge and It was to cost 15 15 and I 1 had 9 9 paved toward it The money was waR in my top bureau drawer under my handler handler- chiefs Now I knew that I couldn't possibly possibly bly bli ar the other 6 6 for two or three e ew w eks ks and I didn't see any reason why 1 t sl shouldn't Jet let the poor pooi man have ha 5 of It it instead pf of keeping it In that tha l bureau drawer So I assured him of my great de delight delight delight de- de light at being able help to-help a brother cub cubIn cubin in Iii time tune of trouble and gave gac him the money He didn't pa pay it back bade tim the next pay da day Nor for ver very many pa pay days ays thereafter on can mv of- of f the the tho purchase of that beloved beloyed and much needed suit suit suit-l T wish you rou could see sec seeth seethe the th- funny little coal coat I was was wearing was delayed But being a little fool even eyen that anguish wasn't powerful enough to 10 make mo me go to 10 the man and ask asle for the money Finally several months afterward ho he came an and told me his father wanted anted him to leave the ne newspaper business He said his family was wealthy but he had been boen on the outs with them and that they were nere going to get fet him a place In the diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic matte service He paid me 4 4 of that 5 i. i I never saw the other dollar I have seen him twice since but he n never ver spoke of it Perhaps you think this is a queer story to publish but Ill I'll explain to you how I 1 came to tell it I had bad always thought until recently that m my experience was a on one and that man was as set apart by his absolute lack of sense of honor from the rest of tho the I world orld of men But within the last year there havo have come to m my ears a half dozen stories of men who have hae borrowed from women and nevel back bk the loan One ne y young ladY n-ladY lady wa was visiting at the tho home of 01 friends of her her- her family The son Of the house who entertained her most royally professed a temporary financial embarrassment owing owin to a dela delayed ed check and borrowed 75 cents of her just for the day He Iii never neer paid it back or oven even spoke of f the loan But the man who borrows money from a woman and then betrays her unwillingness unwilling unwilling- ness to refer to the subject by not paying payin back the loan well loan well my dictionary hasn't words to fit him And as for the girl gh who loans money to toa toa toa a man Id I'd like to say two things to her First It If it Is a large sum she should take a note nole That Isn't a sign of suspicion suspicion cion don merely of common sense And second if he fails faUs to pay it back bacI within a reasonable time I think she should ask him for it it and if that does no good I think it is her absolute duty duly for forthe forthe forthe the safety of oC other women n to pillory him b by telling what he has hai done Or C. C 4 t |