Show ON NOT BEING independent do you know broke out the girl who likes to talk I 1 ve just been con si dering the most interesting ideal suppose nobody had to fuss over try ing to be what he felt he was ex pecked to be and could just accept himself as he was think of the time one would have really to enjoy life the reason this great thought dawned on me explained the girl who likes to talk is that when I 1 got up this morning I 1 felt lazy and mor tally yearned to skip my gymnastics that I 1 sternly writhe through twice a day you see I 1 in getting stout and I 1 realize that nothing but stern heroic regular slaving will help me I 1 had to argue with myself I 1 said f amly know perfectly well that those reducing exercises won t f do you ten cents worth of good if you are haphazard about them it s the steady plugging away that counts it its s dreadful to think that all my life II 11 haie to struggle that way ay why I 1 just long tor for a real legitimate excuse to escape my duties talk about inheriting a fortune if I 1 could wake ip some morning and know I 1 had a days day s freedom from those gym that I 1 loathe I 1 d go mad with joy think how lovely it would be if it I 1 could just comfortably grow fat and nobody would be shocked and I 1 was just as good looking as though I 1 were thin and I 1 knew it dida t matter sim ply because I 1 realize the world will think me a bight if I 1 dont don t attain sylph likeness im doomed to struggle on then look took at daisy greene she has such a desperately pretty face that everybody says gracious I 1 ex hect people are just crazy oer o 01 er that girl she probably is the most lar person in her crowd and has d t dozen proposals a season what s the result 9 N hy poor daisy who is per factly s mple and unassuming and would far rather stay at home and read non noels els or embroider centerpieces is wearing out her young days be ng a belle because the world thinks she should be yo i needa t tell me that girl isn t a slave I 1 ook at the way she races about to theaters and luncheons and d anners she smiles smiles perpetually and is always keyed up to be charming and attract when she t give a pica yure for the tact fact that her dance pro gram is filled first and the papers call can her a social favorite she s bored to pieces by it all she s just as much tied to a tread mill as I 1 am with my gymnastics and there s no escape tor for her either everybody has decided that shell she 11 make a brilliant marriage and be a social leader and she dare for her life marry a man who wanted to stay at home and ead the paper evenings and wear a smoking jacket for such a howl wo did arise about her throwing herself away with all her beauty and genius ol 01 the whirl of so u clety I 1 all because she he knows what s expected of her and bows to public dp op nion consider the way mrs U wears herself out endeavoring to make her daughter grow up into what she thinks hazel ought to be instead of what hazel naturally is hazel is a lumpy ordinary young person of 14 who has no taste for tl e artistic and no gift or charm shed she d be perfectly y content to be left in a corner and not bothered all the rest of her life in fact that s the only jole shed make a success of yet her mother is miserable and makes hazel miserable by eternally goading her on to shine putting her in an exclusive school to make proper frie lids when she can t make friends any more than she can pick mars out of the sky to trim a hat chasing her to her french les sons standing over her like a bonu ment while she tortures the piano in slating or 01 her painting dreadful things making I 1 er do clumsy antics at dancing school keeping at her grimly it would w be pathetic it if it gasn wasn t so ridiculous W hy cant can t she accept hazel for what hazel naturally is and let it go at that she d han hae e lots more time to enjoy life and hazel would have some peace D it she is haunted by the knowledge of what people think a daughter ought to be and shell she 11 keep at it ti I 1 they both dip of exhaustion or till hazel elopes with a grocery clerk and lives happily ever after I 1 feel sorry for george edwards he d be such an ideal ladal ke pro krietor of a dry goods store in a small town and here he is trying to be a clubman a cotillon leader and a sad dog generally just because his fa ther has money and he s been to col lege and something is expected of him it if he belonged to 50 clubs and had a new dress suit every ten mm min utes I 1 should always see hinburg h george georges s footsteps like a second self or a familiar ghost a nice bowing retiring little man with a yard yardstick tick handy and an eager desire to display the last bargain in silks think how much simpler it would be for george he wouldn t have to work nearly so hard as he does now and maybe his countenance would lose that pained anxious expression which comes from wondering if he s doing the right thing and whether the right person has noticed it at the right minute why an t people be inde pendent 9 well why don dont t you start it and arid quit your our hated gymnastics 1 demand ed a listener oh hopelessly said the girl who likes to talk that a different it W S 4 S 4 t |