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Show BE HAPPY IN YOUR WORK Remember That Sometimes the Rich Don't Enjoy the Money They Possess, BY EDNA EGAN. ffrj TIEE! But I'm tired this night. Mkml Molly Granger. We had a mam horrible day at the office. Work piled up about thre feet high, and all the while, I was just longing to get out and have a little lit-tle fun like all the lucky girls who don't have to work for Austen & Austen, Aus-ten, but can drive about in motor cars and shop and try on pretty clothes, and go to lunch at the flno hotels, and " "And kill off all the peace and happiness hap-piness in their hearts, while they aro kl'ling time If only you knew the truth about it, little sister. Oh, I'm sure there can't be anything more tragic in the world than to get up In the morning and sigh. 'Well here's another day to be gotten througn somehow!' " . "I'd like to try it, for once. Moll. I always know how Hi davs-just work and rush and hustle and never do one thing I want Ot ; lUte. Only work, work, work. That B an for little Sue." , , "And lucky you are, my dear. 10 at the faces of all the rich women you pass. Droopy mouths, hard bored eves or feverish, restless ones. What fun do you think they're having. "All the fun we arc missing, in"3 al"But they don't have any fun having Iti Can't you see that, baby? They go through a routine of what might bo pleasant for you because you arent used to it. But it bores them to extinction. ex-tinction. Why do rich folk hate monkey mon-key parties and butterfly balls and all the extravagant and absurd entertainments entertain-ments socialists and Sunday supplements supple-ments howl so about? Why have you ever thought, Susie?" "Mollle you're absurd. They have fun, excitement and no responsibility. They don't have to answer to anyone. A rich girl can stay in bed and have chocolate and rolls and a dozen magazines mag-azines to rest her if she's tired. And no matter how we feel, we havo to get up and dust!" "Yes. It is hard to be sick If you're poor. Ill health Is one luxury the workers work-ers can't afford. That I'll grant you. But the rich can hardly enjoy being well and full of energy unless they And something to do with that energy. Just think how glad tho rich women are to have something to do settlement settle-ment work, bridge, tango teas all of them aro outlets for bottled up energy." en-ergy." "Yes, I can seo that But you can choose which outlet if you are rich! 1 "And can't you Just choose your outlet out-let if you're poor? You didn't have to bo a stenographer, did you? You might have been a seamstress, like me or a clerk In a shop, or a milliner, or a telephone tel-ephone operator, or a moving picturo actress, or whatever you felt was the thing you wanted to do. You chose your work why not enjoy it?" "I had to choose!" "So do tho rich girls have to choose If they just drift, they go over the rapids. If they havo sense enough to know that they decide on something to do even if it is just capturing cap-turing the most eligible man in their set. And they, they go to it!" "Well they can take their tlmo about deciding what to do and their dads support thorn while they are decidingand de-cidingand if they decide wrong, they get another guess." "All right, Sue. I'll grant that But what's to stop anyone who had guessed wrong from guessing again? If you don't like the niche into which you have fitted yourself, cast a roving eye around" for a place where you think you will tit better . . . And work your way into it" "Thero you are apaln, Mollle work your way into a new job work your way out of the old one. Just work. Never play. I'm tired of the vcrj word work." "And I'm sure that the daughters ol Austen & Austen are tired of tho vorj word play!" |
