Show W Ma Sundays Sunday's Intimate I Talks With Girls i iTHE THE GIRL WHO WANTED HER OWN WAY I declare I dont don't know what to do with that child Mrs Sunday her mother exclaimed as we watched the trim little figure dance down don the sidewalk side side- walk I cannot control her no matter matter matter mat mat- ter how I try The fact tact that I dont don't want her to do a thing is enough it seems to set her at tt It There she goes now with her thin pumps on although she knows as well as I do that it jt Is going to rain and she knows that w when en she takes cold it is a very Serious ma matter for her If I were you 1 would send that girl to a good school of the severest type I said Im afraid you rou are going to have trouble with her She smiled and shook her head Im afraid I have given you th the wrong Impression she murmured Flo is not what one would call bad She is Just wilful She will outgrow it In time I said that I hoped so but at heart I thought th that t 0 a great deal more than was the matter with Fl Flo Fla I thought she was also hard hearted and selfish and I feared that disaster awaited her When we passed that way the next her year my premonitions concerning w were wre re fulfilled d. d Flo FIo had run away to tobe tobe tobe be a movie actress and for months her mother had not heard from her I promised her family to visit some som of ol the large motion picture studios In Inthe Inthe inthe the nearby city to get a trace of her but as it developed I found wilful Flo O without that search In the very next place where w we stopped d' d a film turn company had been making a picture The night before we arrived one of the members of the company had been seriously hurt and was reported to be in the local hospital in a dying condition The headlines which told the story in the morning paper caught my eye Wilful Girl Disobeys Director and May Lose Life J. J r was too late Flo was dead when I arrived at the hospital She had received internal Injuries and never recovered consciousness after the ac ac- ac I The director of the company was much agitated As soon as I told him who I was he poured out the the story with him of the girls girl's career She had no talent for acting he said but she was so 80 assertive and persistent that we gave her a small part or two two the the sort sert of thing for fort forI which her het personality was suited j t Then somebody found out that she was very daring All you had had to do was to tell her a a. a thing was dangerous and wild horses couldn't keep her from doing it I never do these so called stunt films if I can help it but the company is strong for them and I 1 have to obey orders This was wasa was was' wasa a a pase rase like Jike that Miss l Flo had only a am small m ll p pait part Inthe hithe Cc c s s D. D but it if was ds a k 11 dangerous erous on one and I cautioned her rep repeatedly that she must obey orders to tn the letters letter But you know her Tha That was enough to make her do the opposite Sh She deliberately threw away her life It seemed that the danger dangerous us part Flo was to play called for her to stand on the running board of an automobile and hold out ut her hand to toa toa toa a young man who vho would jump from froma a moving train t to the automobile Flo was wag told that she was to cling closely to the car which would be driven r yen quite near to the train She was rehearsed rehearsed re rehearsed re- re again and aM again as to just how far she could learn from the side In safety but when the scene was being taken the wilful girl suddenly stretched out just as as far as she could for forone one fatal second I suppose the child chilani meant ant it as only her usual challenge to authority Th The passing train swept her from herhold her hold She fell fen and the bright flame name of her young life was snuffed out What is that quality in tn some people which makes make them react fiercely against the slightest show of authorIty authority authority author author- ity against anything at all aU which any other human being may want of them or for them I In my opinion it is the poison of egotism which causes them themi I to believe that they are more power- power i u ul tha than any other tor force e in the world orld I i I Copyright 1917 by Bell Syndicate Inc |