Show What About out the Right o of Doing Your our 1 By Winifred Black Cop Copyright right ht 1915 b by Newspaper r Fe Feature vice Set Inc Ine WE WB I WERE all talking about rights lights a at t the Liberal th the Iho other night h t. t Th The Un University Girl began it She wore an odd and a l French ram o Tam o to the dinner inner and the they Were ere 0 J her about it V jJ The e University it Girl did not laugh o at the tlC jokes J JIt f It It ItS is m my style this style this sort of thing said sall the University And I have a right to it and I Fm Im m alwa always oin s 's going to wear ill it t Even when you ou are arc old and very fat Y lal said 1 the Art Artist Li Even when Wilen I 1 am old and very verr fat said aid the University lt I y seriously I 1 shall be he myself even eYen then Well Tell ell said the Artist ruefully I I suppose I can sl sta stall j i better then People will just think OU you are crazy and now flow h think you want to be looked at I Well V said the tile University Girl 41 I I do t And from the look of misery on the fa face c of the Artist ie 4 knew that he was really in love and didn't want to be l' l Their Own Lives 1 And then we started to talking b of rights right W Vc c have a t f to he brave alit awl and a right to be he free and amI a right to b be c honest holiest gj a aright y i rIg right I It to be he happy so every one seemed scented to think 1 Especially the right to be he happy 1 rr That t ll appeared l to be the one important thing haPPl thing thing 11 We e e talked of the woman toman who left her own people and andri mt ri Tier rier r a Chinaman and w went nt to live in China in a little h house ease of g gl guar i with a flower garden where the they tied silver bells upon the r rasp And she never walks abroad and she never sees Ameri Amer Americas and Ind she wears the they say a cherry blo blossom om jacket and a pair c u 0 jade Jude green trousers Well Tell said the University Girl it its her 11 own 0 h life fe u w v shouldn't nt t she do with it as she chooses 7 J f And we talked of the man had all we exp expected so much fr the the man mat I It who ho took to drinking g and became an ordinary tram begging for a meal alon along the road 3 If If he to is happier so said the Poet and we all nodded wise And we talked of the thc who threw girl away her good lama n nami ml and broke her mothers mother's heart and amI ran awa away with the oi oj her best friend After Alter all we said together very comfortably after all i it is her her- own life and she has hns a right to be happy in her own way Not one of us said one word about the right to be good or the thi right to he be kind or the right to be generous t i Then Theft a quiet little woman at the end of the table spoke U quite at the end of the dinner 1 Why Not Duty j I Im so interested in all these stories she said but som somi how you yon leave leac out ont the most interesting part 4 The girl who wears jade and cherry blossom jackets things why things why did she marry the Chinaman Did she sho really realty to 10 him for him for what 7 Was Vas it the good in him that attracted her heel 0 did she just marry him to be he different The man who w was as a tramp why tramp why is he a tramp Bees he lie is a poet and cannot live in a sordid world of prose or ji because beean c hes he's lazy y and doesn't want to work for far a living Y Did the girl who ran away y with the other womans woman's Ido do it because she thought b she Rhe could help him to be a better nua Did she think of anybody on earth but hut herself and her herand own Ta Tam Tamand an and her own folly and her own selfishness 1 I I never S seea to care caN much what people do The thin thing g tL interests me rile is what makes them do it its j This right to be he happy you JOU all talk so much about abou vl wl did you get any such right 7 I never heard head of it before In Ili the tale Declaration of Independence it s speaks P of the rig right t the pursuit of happiness It seems scenes to me theres there's a great differ diller I there i iCan Can any of these people you yon have haye mentioned really ally bet E that any of these things b they y are doing will make them happy Do you believe it I dont 4 y yAnd And what difference does docs it make really in the long ja whether you arc are happy to today ay or not 1 It does make a Ii differ whether you JOH aro arc good or not whether you are kind and honest truthful and generous and unselfish h. h t Happiness never forms a habit of character You wont f t. t happy to tomorrow morrow just because you Jou arc are happy toda today But if you 7 hood good today you wont won't find fad it so easy to be he bad tomorrow Cu dont don't acter don't dont any of you on l think anything b of that an any more at aI alt sill If What you ou want to do makes you happy you seem to t What you must do makes you miserable i 1 Why Thy dont don't you yon you ti try what you ought to do for a while and SM aM aMr r i how bow that would work world J i And the little woman at the end of the table put on h hit her t tand an and said night Good Goo and went home and we all sat ba bae A I looked at each other Ive I've been thinking about what she said ever since I wonder wonder if there there- b wasn't a x great deal of sane sanc truth in it it s |