Show HER OWN o 0 AY 0 c A 9 GIRL o THE INEVITABLE QUESTION Jim Costellos Costello's voice was raspy I 1 could see that he had felt the cuts which the presumably society young young men had given gl himI him I 11 had always thought It was only women and girls that kept up that Idea of class I had always alwa's thought that men were more nore democratic My dear Judy Jud men are the most snobbish animals on earth They seldom cut one of your sex but they the can bo be nearer to one of mine and not see him than one would think possible But I don dont don't t want to talk tak about men or women in g general gen gen- n- n eral I want to talk about you You say that If It didn't st stay here and work you you'd d have to go home and marl many mariy Becker Isn Isn't t this a free country I Gin Cant t you jou do as yoU jou pleAs please 1 I 1 thought all l that old melodrama stuff shiff went out with theold the theold theold old plays of our grandfathers Jimmie struck an attitude right light I in the middle of tie the sidewalk and proclaimed m t Daughter you m must must st marry marry Sir George Heathcock or your jour father tather will go t to p lson and Your our oui mother moth r die of shame Then he came back t to again tuck tucked d me under his arm arm and aric said That might have been the bees bee's kne knees s in 1850 1830 but in 1925 Its It's the bunk I T laughed and then l I blushed for forI I didn't didn t want Jimmie to know why dad had Insisted I should Charlie Becker I hesitated d as I trl tried d to decide how much I should tell this clever and how much I should keep to myself You know lenow Jimmie dad thinks a airl girl irl o to marry as soon as can He that some sore man must always be be bethe the master master of t a girls destiny Father rather is the best Judge according to himself as to what 1 I should do and say and think until my husband appears appear on the and then he hes he's s perfectly willing willing- willingto to turn the management over oyer to himI him I don dont don't t think it would make any particular difference to Father Rather if It the young man had the worst of o reputations He still stilt has that lie he implanted in his brain that a girl c can cin n marry a man and reform himI him I T don dont don't t want that kind Jimmie I 1 want to think I wint to work 1 I want to be something end ind SOmebOdy somebody somebody some SOme- body all by myself Dont you vou ever think of ot marry ml marrying ing Jud Judy Don Dont Dont t you jou expect to fall taIl fallin fallin in love some time I always thought that was the only thing a 1 girl thought of ot Tut Tut tut man Its It's a side issue w with ith most of the girls girls' today toda Copyright 1926 1920 EA EA S Service Inc Tomorrow For the Sake of Appearances Ap Ap- jes |