Show TWO GOOD 1 MOTTOES 11 MUMS UtiS THE WORD AND PAY L OR SHUT CHUT UP diw brank bealle writes on some r t i ing Tl cuic an of the me cit tg 1 I aw li scon the or life I tac 1892 liy by american press jve aci tion lion all i N 4 14 1 1 I 1 4 1 home bovie very tired one day by tho the elevated railroad my drowsy car was caught by tho the fresh clear voice of a young girl saying mums the lie word wora about what aked a bcd an older and wearier womans comans voice oh everything replied tho the girl with a tinkling little laugh langh and as IS if tho the phrase tickled her fancy she file repeated c d it still more blit blithely chely yes mum s the word the best rule of ufa life I 1 knoof know of theres another that they use lisa a good I 1 deal in the mining districts said a man 8 voice with a little ian langh b and pay up or shut up dont you yon think better advice miss lotty 1 I dont just see what it means replied lotty coquettish why illy if one follow fellow has done another fellow an u ugly iv turn say got his money at cards and the first man thinks he play on oil the square oil oh dear I 1 dont know anything about such dreadful people inter lotty and tho the older woman added and I 1 hope you yon dont either william course I 1 dout dont mother and of course you yon dont returned william with a choked laugh struggling under his voice only ive heard it you see and it seems to mea better rule to work by than just J list to keep mum no matter what anybody does to you but you finish explaining what it means interposed lotty 4 suppose one of these horrid men cheats another horrid man at cards for I 1 suppose that I 1 is what you yon mean about the size of it mis lotty replied william cheerily well then th enyou 5 on see fee the fellow that omes comes to grief feels mad and wants to pay c sp p why lies hes got to pay up if hes lost tho money lie oil oh well it doceu doesn t mean that lind kind of paying up if the other fellow carried a couple of aces up his fc leeve why yo yoi 1 I want to lo pay him blut up for cheating don doal i you yon want to be revenged on him well if 5 3 on put it that way anyhow if hes a plucky fellow hell go for him fists or six shooter or bowie home how or other and pay him up for being such a sneak dont you see but i if f lie i ait plucky and feels as it if tho the other one had got heavier licarie r lists fists or a quicker aim or a handier knife lie he sort of crawls away and goes around scolding and snarling and blowing william associates have you been among in tho the westy put in the mother in atone a tone of dismay but lotty with her little tinkling illin laugh laug listi suggested astel so then the other man tells him if he the courage to pay ilay up liis is 0 grudge lie ho had better shut up and riot not talk about it isi Is that it yes miss lotta lou just it and I 1 think its pretty good advice it if done you a mean turn city v hy pay him up for it and if you cant pay it up why up till you can but dont take it out ont in swearing the cars stopped end and when they went on the voices had ceased evidently my friends had got off and I 1 never had bad seen them but the net result of the little overheard discussion crystallized iu in my mind into the question Is it better to pay up or shut up or 13 s slums mums the word the better ulo rule i of life better than either to pay apor up or shu tup all of us especially women have plenty to camplon of as wo go through the world ishmae ishmaels Ishm aels ls ch children ildron whose hands against every man and every mans llana against them are never hard to find indeed it sometimes seems as if more or less disguised they pervaded society in all its grades and all its relations and were impossible to a aboid old even I 1 tough though the exterior seems seema to promise better things sometimes indeed a womans comans foa are those of hor her own household and behind the closed doors of what to the world seems a happy home a system ot of persecution or of struggle is c carried on which nobody suspects unless indeed the victim finding it impossible to shut up any loni longer cr desperately resolves to pay up by exposing her tyrant to tho the vengeance of the public do you doubt the existence ot of these silent if so you are not one of those persons persona endowed to their own misfortune with what is known as a sympathetic nature persons to whom everybody tells tit their air story almost at tight bight often ending I 1 it with some such remark as this 1 I dont ont know why I 1 have told you all this I 1 have never spoken of it outside of my own home borne to a living creature but there is ilig about 3 ou oil that metti to open olien my illy beart and assure me that I 1 inay place confidence both in your M lup alliy and your discretion of churbe courbe orio ono can but assure these poor wounded ones of if both the sympathy and aind the dus discretion and fillish by admill titena such advice or comfort as sug hug arsts alro ats it if though often with it a dread Y that tho one nor the other will vil 1 do 10 any dejl I 1 good booi gooi still till the telling of the te story does teera t to do goo good i to buch lier persons som and often enough 11 they finish the interview ba 1 avowing thil they ft 1 happier than tha they have for weeks or years orage nr ns as they may phrase it forone for one result i intense worry is as I 1 have frequent noli col to give gie the object of it tl alo of having suffered for a letigia length it of ti I 1 beyond the power of computation I 1 i phrase an ail chei anity of woe is 1 ly s means a poetical trope but it ical experience pa M I 1 rear fear too loo man m you who read these lines ines huela fro bitter experience while on tin thi hand the hours or days of real att li nc s dotted alon along through a alif lifa s ti so EO brief and so far away when once oace I 1 11 are passed that we almost doubt is il ever actually experienced them or if i iced aliey were no more than ow on those morning dreams apparently apparent lyL i 1 cling hours but which waking waiting rea roii tells us only filled the half minutes 1 L tween the tha servants first and decoi knock upon the bedroom door again the routs poets have as indeed tin generally do seized upon the tha true it ii war hardness ward duess ness of the situation when tlc alc speak of a dream of delight a divisi of joy 9 juat think of it I an of woo woe and a of deli delight ailt an n yet both events may by the measure ineas liro oi the clock have hare occupied the same len length all of time dut dat to return a little to our 11 take the case of a girl at lionie home and I 1 dare clare say eay some girl reading this will vill think I 1 mean her and somebody not a girl will immediately lit fit the cap to the lead head of some soine friend of their own but really I 1 mean no girl in particular but alas a great many girls in general a girl we will say whose parents are in very moderate circumstances anti and yet not poor enough to allow their daughter to go out into the world to earn her own living she must stay at home and bo subject unto her parents site she must do tho the work which if it were lone done for a stranger would bring her in a solid income while at her home ne file fhe is 19 paid in food not such as she could fancy perhaps in clothes each garment of which represents a separate pang jiang of mortification and disappointment anil and in a good deal of scolding and fretti fretting I 1 at from a sickly or overworked mother alda and a harassed father the girl feels bitterly feels that the days of her youth and good looks are passing by that site she is ia losin losing those chances of untold prosperity and joy which every girl believes oh sweet delusion lie within her reach if only she could get her hands free to grasp at them she knows that dinless some new opportunity is offered to her before long the day will C come ome when she too will be peevish keevis it and sickly ind fretted into wrinkles and sal sallo lol 1 l n nass ess ns as her mother is now and it iry well be without h her er me mothers solace of having fulfilled a womans comans destiny and taken rank as wife and mother perhaps it is eve even worse than this thi pei 11 aps the girl is actually ill used perhaps the father drinks and the mother isa is a vixen and the rough boy brothers are allowed to tease and tyran tyrannizes niza ind and bully their sister as only tough rough boys can in either case liere here is a life being spoiled and crushed and yet capable of beiji beisig saved by the intervention of some strong hand and masterful will dut but if this good girl is of lotty lettys I 1 5 way of thinking and considers that slums mums the word is the best rule of life she will dimply refrain from trying to shimmon that hand band and will to her rescue and will after some years of desperate sax ig g gle ic go under tho the waves and add one more to the noble army of martyrs each ono one of whom adds her little item to tho the account mankind is 13 scoring up against fate an account probably to be repudiated in the end endi since it can never be paid os off hut but perhaps the girl having stuck to her motto of mums theford the word finds her release comes through some william or thomas or jack or joseph who offers her marriage naturally the poor child grasps at any ally means of escape from her dreary life and loss does riot not too closely scrutinize what it offers instead she marries in haste and alas repent 4 at leisure jack or joseph turns out to lie ile different from the father from whose grumbling she lias has escaped but not on the whole any better no does riot not grumble or growl so BO much certainly but he be laughs and sneers which is worse the father dealt out his money sparingly tor for the new gown that could not bo be refused but the husband if urged too forswears far swears angrily that he has nono none to give and bids her make over her old things or buy them out ont of the magnificent don dowry ry she brought him when poor child bho knows that ho he knows the pries price of lier her wedding gown is not yet scrimped out of the poor household she has left perhaps on the other hand band jack or joseph is foolishly careless oi of money spends what lie can get as soon as it comes to hand and lives for tho the rest of thy the mouth on credit as she is also welcome to do if she can get anybody to civo it to her tor for a jack or a joe of oc this lind kind had as lief be in debt for a hurt died dollars as for ten tell since lie he never iu Lend to pay either we all know tho the end of this career debt failure pro cosmos at law bankruptcy i uin buin y of every sort bort the children C ome come all and their mother remembers in and V vain ain regret her resentment against her own poor mother now that she finds herself also growing peevish and complaining and ailing anil and lachrymose sho she at last hist learns to understand now DOW it is too late the causes of that poor mot moth oia infirmities of body and temper and re solves that as her hc r own daughter grows to womanhood she will make her see the tha matter more truly than ever she did herself sho she woul wont do it however and for t two r 0 reasons re tho first that it is impossible oneff one of the malicious provisions provision of fate boing being boin bein in that experience is not to lie be transferred every traveler upon fates iron load haning to buy bis or tier lier own ticket and ami riot not one of them privileged to alliy it without paying the whole cost out of his own rocket packet and tho the reason being that tho the motto of mums tho the word wordia ii a light and a decent ono one whim at inot licis dicon discontent with her ber husban il is id the topic and hii own child the auditor pow fow women I 1 think would woul l deliberately trant dicea this unwritten law although alio tined ami the eloquent silence ani and the glanco of tho the eye and the toss tois of tho the head generally to give civo the children at I 1 ecat t in an inkling of what the file mother think she is 13 so honorably keeping to herbrig cat but abero are other wo women inen in ot alii lii walks of life who may have usa foi L i tys favorite motto or who put to tit ii I 1 selves the cynical query Is it bet better cr to shut up or py pay IV ip households li are thero there where festiona of want ars are not raised nr money is aud and tho the husni i i in life assured dut but few people nowa lowi I 1 i feel contented to follow pauls ei t daviu having food and raiment therewith li ii content riot not even when houses house 4 an Is bankbooks bank ball boo books are added for these moi moi i rn rebels especially the female half 1 I them contend that tho the luxuries r of on ago age aro are tho the necessities of the next nul i that so far f from being imp co ident with food fol and raiment houses aliouse s and bankbooks bank books they count all those as naught and 1 iw r than ariu litif not 1 by sympathy delicate consideration h harmony of temper and taste and that peace and sweet content only to be found in congenial companionship these women having married ail edgal 1 hero here of their own civil imagining and aul ul denly waking to tho the consciousness that they have upon themselves just in 1 such it a trick a as di did d T Titan I 1 tani iii a wa when I 1 e I 1 I 1 alj L iu crowned an ass bead with flowers fl owera when v hen their dren dream of bliss all of a sudden resolves itself into an eternity of woe naturally seek to ease case tho the shock of the he discovery by in an outcry more mora or 11 less ess an audible addible dible ail and it is very natural that they should do you happen haply ni to know that the surgeons aver the deadly effects of pain to bo be very much mitigated ly by gutc io one of the most diabolical refinements of torture in the inquisition was to yag tho the victim so BO that he be remained perforce force mute have thus died under suffering suf ferin thoy they might have sustained had nature been allowed her free course and so with the tha woman who nho f aiels t el s that life lias has become too complex an I 1 too painful to be governed by the girls motto of slams the word matte 3 have come to suca a head with hor her that the question now low is can I 1 pay up tip and if I 1 cannot what then why the alternative ter native nativo Is shut up tip and most women some borne ot of them with full intention w awl some of them with tho the defensive tit instinct that makes even a dove pock peck it at the cruel liand haintl that squeezes it will begin the process prokp s s of paying 0 up by telling out their causes of complaint and putting their te enemy to an open shame I 1 say open oarn tor for it is sure to become cc me so even though at fi first it st the secret is only brea breathed theil in the car of an intimate friend or even told in the confessional some cynic inquires why should 3 lou on expect your friend to keep your secret when you could not keep it yourself and why indeed perhaps it ilot only ony told to ono one intimate friend perhaps it is to several sev ertl to everybody to tho the newspapers to the divorce court in either way or in nil all ways it effects its purpose and the lin I 1 13 appy and wronged aroll ed wife weal weak ard timid though bho is pays up lip her tyrant better than she file could with even the six si shooter or boivid of lettys western friend do you blame blama her baving shut up as ion long 0 as she sha was able is she not right to p pay ay up in the end I 1 think so |