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Show Hi. . fUaMa'JTiMT.m f!WaWEmiMMKMMEJC T RU T H. 10 ALICES LETTER. Salt Lake City, Oct. 1, 1903. John: So you expect to remain In Washington until after Christmas! Under such circumstances you are not my dear, but simply John. I should not write to you at all and yet I am simple enough to do so. It does not seem possible that this is October that briliant meteoric month so rich in contrasts, so full of beauty. Next thing we know grim November will send in her. card and I shall long with thousands of others to say "not at home," In .vain the wish, and I shall be obliged to talk of football and cranberry sauce until shes gone. Poor old November! What with her scant clothes and poor circulation one would think shed get over her football craze sometime. tiflcial life that qur real selves die I ness film his big gray eyes as he from lack of nourishment. What is it looked at me, then he said in a kind the great bard says: of whisper "To thine own self be true, "O, I know its so, but I wish it i And it must follow as the night the wuzzent! Jl St day, Thou canst not then be false to any I heard the other day of a woman man. who had conclusions of the brain. 9 Jl St Mr. Westervelt must think he has How funny it is the way women now that Luke has got off again make conversation over the servant question. At parties, matinees, on the street it is ever a fertile subject. ago Mrs. D. was raving over her servant, whom she calls "maid" when theres company. She was a jewel, priceless, unset. The other morning I telephoned her an invitation to lunch and this is the rest of what was said: "Id love to come, but I just cant. I have such lots to do. Wheres your girl? Jl St "My girl? Oh the maid! Why, Yesterday I was amused at some, shes gone didnt you know? Im women in the street car who were dis- just worked to death. "I thought she was such a jewel." cussing punctuation. "It is a very difMm , she turned out paste. ficult study, said one, "I am never How I have certain that learned it "Well? Well? can one always know where to put "Yes, I can tell by your voice you in commas? "Well, said the woman want to know. She got to running opposite her a pretty woman if a out nights. Thursday evening James puff of gray hair had not obliterated and I thought wed go down to the her eye brows I always try to put a recital you know I Just dote on comma where there seems to be a Mrs. Melvins voice, and just as we Number reached the front door I called up to place to take your breath. three spoke up facetiously: "I Just the maid like this: 0 Maggie, I wish run on until I get mixed and then I youd take your book and sit with the commas to thin out the baby a while were going out! What sprinkle do you suppose the blessed damozel sense. if Jl St replied? "Thank you, but Im goin Of course, there was Do you think it pays to be frank, out myself! one thing to do, so I said good John? I heard of a woman who asked only ten people to dinner that they might by as airily as I could and James and meet Miss Soandso. "Now, do come, I went back to the library. I havent she urged, "you will like her immense- seen her since. Its a shame I cant H ly. She is actually quite frank. One come to your luncheon! man Bpoke to another like this: "Confound him! hes so beastly frank I dont know whether to knock him down or apologize. The Worlds Work for October has a little editorial on the subject and cites Roosevelt, Jerome and Mr. Polk as examples of what this attribute can do for men, claiming that "Frankness considered as a working quality is sometimes worth more in the fortunes of a public man in a democracy than good judgment itself. Yet this fundamental principle of public success is not a thing that may be adopted at will; it is determined by temperament. The men who are born with it win indre easily than the silent bosses and they win higher success. I wonder if that is true, if some people are bora with tlie ability to be themselves, and if others are not. Possibly to some extent our tendencies are determined before we come into the world, but isnt it true that frankness is naturalness? Conventions, etiquette, training go far to eliminate the natural man, and, in a way, it is well that tills is so, well to restrain the brute instincts, but no amount of polish is going to make a bad man' good; and it is oftenest the deepest instincts In a man that make his personality lovable and by which we judge him.': Is it not sad tragic even that the conventions of petty minds have raised a barrier so that man cannot be natural but is restrained from the expression of his most vital self? If he dares to push the barrier aside he is eccentric. We waste so much energy meeting the demands of our ar-- . Jl St Joking aside, the servant problem is serious. You are less liable to get value received in this line than any other. The problem never will be solved while regarded as it is today. A competent servant must be an individual with brains and good sense. It takes brains to make a cook. That means she must have training and the right ethical teaching: equality as sfiown in her consciousness of it, not in the Declaration of Independence Most women who work in other peoples kitchens have either false pride, or none. You cant take your servant into your drawing room, nor may she sit at your table when you do: neither can you join in her pleasures. Some-t-nis violated either way; your standards differ. What is wrong? It is the individuals conception of life that makes the trouble. Let a girl come to know that she alone is responsible for failure or success, let her regard domestic service as a business proposition for which she gives the most for the best return, and if she have a reasonable woman for a mistress the question is solved. Of course the solution requires a little intelligence but what do we do which is worth while that doesnt? I was talkto small a the other ing boy day, trying to get him to complete an unfinished task, and very wisely and tritely I said: "Dear, this you must learn: Everything we get that is worth keeping, costs hard, painstaking labor, and nothing worth while comes without it. I saw a shadow of serious g Tiire. Table AN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES AND SALT LAKE R. R. CO. on each of the nine counts, too. Which is worse, to be a poor lawyer DEPABT.. or to be careless? I am reminded of From to be hurled used Oregon Short Line Depot, the old lines that Snlt Lake City. at me Evil is wrought by want of thought For Provo, Lehl, Fairfield and Mercur, connecting at Nephi As well as want of heart. for Mantl intermediate and ' points on Sanpete Valley Ky.. Wv Garfield Beach, Tooele, Most of us, sometime or other in For Stockton, Mammoth, Eureka this world bump up against our own and Silver City (via Learning- - OAJU cut-offton we take incompetence. We run well, the ditches and the middle fences For Provo, American Fork, Jit St flVt a m )., Lehl,. a HI Juab,' Frisco, beautifully, but .we foul on the nine Calientes intermediate and. boards and come down in a heap. points ARRIVE. Christian Science has its remedy, Do From American can Provo, which you Fork, always apply. Lehi, Juab, Milford, Frisco. not affirm you own failure; maintain Calientes and Intermediate your success. Believe you are cappoints able and you will be, constantly as- From Provo,' Lehi, Fairfield, Mercur and Sanpete Valley serting that God is over all, in all. Ry. points. What do you think of that? At least From Silver City, Mammoth, you dont have to pay for a prescripEureka, Stockton, Tooele and Milford, CJVZ OIUD p HI Qf 1C am . tion and theres no bottle to carry in your coat. Jit St Can you imagine such a thing as Mr. Eichnor listening to a sharp lec- Garfield Beach C.1C P HI C.C p III 3100 ALL TRAIN8 DAILY. Direct stage connections for all mining districts in southern Utah and Nevada. City Ticket! Office, Sul Main Street Tel. 250, For particulars call on or address agents. Salt Lake Route, or J. L. Moore, Commercial Agent. ture from Mayor Thompson because of his friendship toward the boom for Odell for mayor? They say that Den- E. W. GILLETT, Gen. Passenger Agent nis listened meekly and is going to work like a little man for Knox at the same time quietly placing his He said to his mother the other night, bets on another for winner. very seriously, "Mama, if ever youre a farmer and a toad comes on your Jit St farm youll leave him be, wont you?" I understand that Judge Miner does was asked. "Cause he does Why? not approve of senators mixing in the he eats bugs and beetles an coming campaign. Possibly because good; His tongue why taint like certain senatorial possibilities prom- things. ours sets way back, an darts out it ise to be lost in the maze. and curls round em quickern scat. 0 St St the dear, little toads, I jess love em, There is question whether the new dont you? This particular child is retax can ordinance be made an poll He and his embryo diplomat. troactive. Surely Mr. Condie hopes it mother were waiting for a car. one can, for there is all that crowd of night. The mother had a sack of saltlaboring men who haunt the county ed almonds in her hand that appealed building to get the names and ad- to the true inwardness of the boy. dresses of men to whom poll tax no- "Lemme carry the almonds, mama," tices are sent, and then hurry off to he begged.. these houses and beg for the chance "Very well, said his mother, but to work out the tax. A crowd of idle you must not eat any of them until lazy men make this their business, we get home, its impolite to eat on and their votes are worth while as the street. well. There is another place where a The boy held the sack and gazed political screw is loose, but the peo-ol-e about him. At last he said, looking dont mind so long as the machine up at the sky as impressively as he doesnt . squeak. Jl Jl The annual meeting of the Utah Federation of Womans Clubs makes me think of the title of one of Shakespeares plays. Can you guess it? The title has four words, and is so blissfully apropos. I think the coming political conventions would do well to blazon the same title on their banners, dont you? St St How refreshing is the conversation of children. I heard one little boy telling another about a dog that scared his pigeons. He said: He snuck to em at when I scatup ready jump tered him with a rock. This same boy is happy when he can have a ride, but he calls the place where you hire vehicles the delivery stable. , could: Mother, what do you think of a world without any stars? The night was dark and the mother was struck with the budding poetry of her youngster, so she looked up appreciatively. She also looked down again and was just in time to see her son wipe some salt from his mouth. "My dear, she reproved, "I am surprised that you should be 'so impolite. . The boys jaw worked arpidly a moment, and then he said in the most matter-of-favoice: if "Mother, its impolite to eat on the street, what does the tomale man stay .round for? Their car changed its way down the street just then and ct Mother was glad. Jl jl I received the books you sent, be have had no chance to read then Will let you know when I do. Jac Morton and his bride are due tonlgh Ill tell you all about them in my ne letter. Jl Jl I had a letter from Alice Lavanau and it was all fulsome praise of yi She said you hadnt changed a I She also said that she expected spend the winter in Washington. i I . Good by ALICE |