Show I HER OWN w twAY WAY SWAY cA A c GIRL of o joja y DESPAIR IR J Of Ot course I know now Julie said salol Mamie some somewhat hat hysterical hysterically ly Iy that both these notes were hat very high hat but I did not know as much about the life liCe of ot a a poor goll goU as I da do now note no Sometimes I think that It Is la all the bunk to try to keep straight Hero Here ere I am am all broken bro up be- be because be because cause tonight at t the restaurant I saw Buddy well dressed d among charming people eating the most expensive viands on the menu I 1 thought to myself It If I had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been so grand and virtuous I might have been for tor the last two years cars In all places where BuddY Tremaine could be bo found I could ho be reveling In do love lo and luxury Beside all that I 1 might be al almost al- al almost almost most ready for tor grand opera In Instead In- In instead stead of at without hops hope lope of ot ever taking another voice yolee lesson Mamie Mamle could not speak for tor paroxysms of ot sobs x I let her Ier cry for tor a while and then she the raised her tear stained tear face tace to me and said salol Julia do you think Its It's worth It Up to date Ive I've not found an any I great reward In strictly vir- vir virtuous virtuous vir virtuous I Julia Dean sat there here stunned For the first fint time In my life lite I realized d the temptations a girl had to face ace I was almost sure I 1 would not have como come Mamle's Mamie's unscathed Poor poor Mamie I truly wondered If It she sho were not right when she said salol that she sho had made a II great sacrifice and had nc nr even enn got out of at it the t satisfaction ot of o feeling that she had made herself herselt a II martyr to 10 a par pal particularly good cause What am I now Julie she asked despairingly Im Just a 11 hat-girl hat in In the Beaux Deaux Arts restaurant In Chicago Who Vho cares what I 1 am or who I 1 Iam Iam am Who Vho cares besides myself whether I am virtuous or not I will VIII probably hold old this position 1 until I grow old and ugly and then what hat Is there for tor me tor for the rest of ot my Illy life Every night I see women come into the restaurant eat the finest food tood laughing and seemingly happy They are arc covered with jewels and the tho men men men beside th them m see yetI no ono one else but them and yet et 1 know in my heart that these women are ara not what the tho world calls good goo Im lm Im I'm getting sick of 6 t that word good I 1 am nm sure If It I had not run runaway runaway runaway away from New York Tort and come out hero to Chicago I could have held Cuddy Buddy love lovo and some sarno day I 1 could have ha given to the world a glorious vol voice voice- eo- eo and added to the tho pleasure of ot thou thou- thousands thousands thousands sands of ot music lovers Copyright 1926 NEA Service Inc TOMORROW An Offer Otter of Hope |