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Show ISZSZISSZZSI To many women life is such, that to faco it, demands more courage than to face death. IT crri To live for one's kith and kin is often more VFiaiAl heroic than to die for one's country. Not all q women's lives arc cast in pleasant places. . - There is the daily toil of tho young girl who JLIOrnillg struggles to cam an honest livelihood, scc- Siflflc n" 00 ''"'c "c an B'P ping all too early of the cup of sorrow and ' disappointment. Scarcely can she feed or By ROBERTSON WALLACE, clotlio herself n8 sho should bo fed and .clothed. Her outlook and prospects are lim-'tc,l' lim-'tc,l' From tho drab surroundings of tho present she may look back to the gray past or forward into the menacing darkness of tho future. She is balanced j i on the brink of the infinities. A perilous position 1 But she docs not i . quail. She is brave a heroine without knowing it. ' Again, lake the case of tho suburban family whose growing require Jf jiicnts take their daily toll of the planning brain and unflagging spirit of the mother. They are doomed by forco of circumstances to Uvc the "respectable" "re-spectable" life of the suburbs a condition of existence as far removed from the simple life as cast from west. Tho problem of living a com-' com-' paratively full life on a superlatively empty purse is indeed a difficult one, but must be faced by the women on whom devolves the dire responsibility of keeping up appearances. The children must bo dressed, fed, schooled, be entertained and entertain in conformity with the ideas of the exclusive suburb in which they reside. The suburban mntron's wardrobe must withstand the fire of criticism. Now to cultivate the fine flower of a suburbnn life on a poor soil is really heart-breaking work. Nobody's income in-come is ever so ample as it is made to appear. j But the wifo has learned the secret of perennial opulence. She is tho .keeper of the keys of social life nnd death. Does she not serve as a slave nt homo that she may shine as a queen abroad ? Docs she not strive and struggle half the day that her husband and children may frolic and frivol lialf the night? Sho makes nppnrcnt extravagance possible because of j lier genius for small economics. Sho saves that others may waste. Sho plots and plans that husband and children may bo free from petty cares. She has to lay out every penny 'so that it shall appear to return tho value of two. In mMS&l ' hours snatched from rest she rings the changes on jSPSlk the evanescent garments of children, - making new Er-XEl. things from old ones. She darns her husband's socks jffiJw? nnd repairs what other things ho may require. Sho Wwfffi keeps tho peaco amongst inharmonious relatives, for tho children's sakes. In a word, is sho not a bravo Lm7$$' Iwomnn? Is sho not ono of tho heroines of tho su- $flPV " ,burbs? I nm sure she is. For true it is that unheard SSf of heroines, like unheard melodies, are sweeter than "if " ' those whose names arc on every tongue. ' 1 ' |