| Show HER OwN t 0 0 y cA R GIRL ij n c s 1 DESPAIR Of course course I know now Julie Julle said Mamie somewhat hysterically that both these notes were were- very high hat but bul I did not know as much about the life liCe of ot a poor In Ing Boil goil as I do now Sometimes I think that hat It Is all the bunk to try to keep straight Hero I am all broken up because tonight at the rest restaurant I saw Buddy Buddy Buddy Bud Bud- dy Tremaine well I I dressed among charming people eating the most expensive viands oJ on the menu I I thought to myself if it I had not been so grand and virtuous I might have been for the last two years In In all pl places ces where Buddy Tremaine could be found I could be reveling In n n love and luxury Beside all that I might be almost al almost almost al- al most ready for grand opera Instead of without hope for tor ever taking another another another an an- other voice lesson Mamie could not speak for tor paroxysms paroxysms I sms of ot sobs I let her cry for tor a while and then the she T raised her tear face tace tome to tome tome me and said Julia do you think Its It's worth it Up to date Ive I've not Jound any gre great t reward In being strictly virtuous I Julik Julia Dean sat there stunned For the first l time me In my life I realized realized real real- th the temptations a n. girl had to I face I was vas was almost sure I 1 would not have come through Mamie's Mamle's unscathed un un- scathed Poor poor Mamie I truly wondered red if f she were not right when she said that she had made a great sacrifice and nd had not even ven got out of ot it Jt the satisfaction of feeling that she h had d made her- her i fitt r ra O. O J self a mart martyr to a a. p i g r cause cause What am I now flow Jute Jutte r JuU l she asked aske des despairingly a just Im just a ahat hat girl In the Beaux Arts restaurant in Chicago Who Vho cares what haV I am or who I am Who Vho cares carea beside m myself self whether I am rn virtuous Or r n not t I 1 will Probably h hold M IM this position until I grow old and ugly and then what Is there me for tor the tire rest of at my life lite t livery Every nl night ht I try see wom women come into the restaurant eat the finest f i 1 food tood laughing and seemingly hap- hap py 1 They y are c covered vered with jewels and the men then beside them see no one one else but them and yet I know w In ln m my heart that these women are not what f the world world- calls good Im Mm getting sick of at that word good I am sure If It I had not run away from tram New York and anal como come out here r Buddy L to V Chicago I could have hel held love and some day I 1 could have given t to o the world a glorious voice and vote added to th the ni pleasure 0 of thousands of ot music lovers Copyright 1926 NEA IsEA Service In Inc Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow-An An Offer of Hope |