Show h A way 7 people have did you ever notice said the ob serving girl that when people are married their duty to their relatives ceases instantly while every ones duty to them la is immediately increased ten folda I 1 cant can t say that I 1 ever did an the placid girl who accepts the world as she finds it but what made you think of it just nowa oh I 1 met bertha stone today you know she bad had been planning on this summer vacation tor for a whole year to carry out a special project when I 1 asked her about it she told me that just as she was ready to go her sis ter s children were both taken sick and she devoted the entire two a feeks to helping care for them I 1 suppose ehe she thought it was her duty interposed the placid girl gently i 0 but when bertha was sick last win ter it was no one s duty to take care of her and she had to go to the hos pital argued the observing girl the worst of the present case Is that aa as soon as the children were well her sister left them in care of an aunt while she went to the country tor for a rest and bertha came back to the of flee all tired out to work another year that was hard agreed the placid girl sympathetically then there was doris thompson who kept house for her brother jack it nas vas dreadfully hard tor for doris to work downtown all day and take care of the flat too but she insisted that both she and jack ceded a home al at though we all knew she did it more tor for jacks jack s sake than her own when jack was married she fully expected to make her home with them but they gave her to understand that mar ried people were much better off by themselves however they sud suddenly deril changed their minds when the twins arrived and then it immediately became doris duty to live with them I 1 remember how bow sorry we all felt for mrs robinson when alice mar ried she was the only child and had been her mothers mother s constant corn com panion they had always declared they would never be separated but that when alice married she would live with them in the big bouse house but bu she wedded a poor man and decided in favor of love in a cottage her mother and father declared she wa wag quite right and fought down thell their loneliness as best they could but when she had bad three children to take care of and could not afford a maid alice came to the conclusion that it was a shame tor for mother to be alone in irl that big house and accordingly moved her family over there also was aunt janet long who brought up a family of nieces and nephews not because she was able to do so financially but because aa as she had no husband or children all the relatives considered it her duty to do so and she poor weak neak soul gave up her life to the task now they re all married and of course could not think of having their home invaded by an old maid aunt who has ways so she lives alone but whenever there are sick headaches extra work or ba bles aunt janet Is sent tor for post haste and never falls to respond you remember that spoiled girl nellie nellte mayne who in all her life never thought of doing an unselfish act for anyone because she was pret ty md prid insisted on being petted and having her own way she always had the arst of everything at home and her b others and sisters all had to give up to her they expected great things ot of her ai at d were heartbroken when she rr away and madried a good for nothing young scamp who had nothing to recommend him but a hand some tact fact now they have allowed their sell seh es the I 1 bury of a large fara fam lly of babies that they cannot support and it becomes bec ocies everyone a imperative duty to help them yit gut of course pursued the observing girl I 1 am fully aware that married people are much better off by them selves at the same time it seems a bit one sided and rather unfair to their relative ivea to let it be known that since chev have each other everyone else la Is an out der and must expect i athing from tetra but as soon as they need assistance their people must tall fall over one another to be the first on the pot or mv what hat Is to be done about it ita the placid one inquired nothing at all and the observing girl dismissed the subject with a shrug 0 |