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Show ; . WIT A WOMAN WILL j By GRACE OAKLEY i v ' ' The Tyranny of Foolish Rules. ! ! o, 0ver the country thousands of ! -j trho are underpaid are obliged to i SSi for themselves some kind of corn- krtifWglrlsWiomes. Slxdol- f S and ?10 a week are not living : IU yet there are girls that one SSesV think of earning these pit-1 pit-1 t ?V.c A subsidized home Is for them ' : : S only solution. In such a place obtain more than they can pay t X ml erial comforts. The deficit it i ?rtfkCn care of by the charity of -( Snd-hearted, well-meaning people, I ?ho do not analyze far enough to real-' real-' P w that a far belter method would be ! 5 ;9iJ to the root of the evil which 1 "mit girls to be underpaid, rather to strive to make up in gifts what '! S really should have as salary, i j j3 usual to think when we give . f inr one anything we 'immediately ob -' ffln a right to supervise their lives. V The women who plan these homes lead !" sheltered existences. They cannot un- I iurstand that a girl who ably takes ; re of herself ten hours of the day I falhe temptations of business can be i Led for four or five hours in the i I letting, or if the first isn't true the econd cannot be made so by strict f li-s Laws never gave a human being ( backbone. Self-control and self-reli-f ance are like healthy muscles; they develop from being exercised, 1 I These good people build us a home. I and ordain, among other things, that I veniust be in by ten every night. The j onf way to avoid it is to take the Btron into enforced confidence. And ' senate a third person mixing in our rrivate business, even when it is per-j per-j fecily legitimate. The sedate girl is . often the greatest rebel. "Show me a ; rule and I'll break it," she throws down 1 the gauntlet, "They don't boss our it ( brothers. Only women get such atten-J: atten-J: I lions." iii The "latchkey" rule works out very i curiouslv. Suppose your best beau 'i rants to take you to the theater. You Z'ajnt nasi bp in at ten, because, they tell qf J03, "otnenvise you wont be fit for j I business the next day." ,-1 j You think it's your job and your W (rouble if you lose it. To return in '.Teh time without special permission you'd vi'j I bare to leave at the end of the second . K 'act and never see the "Happy ever f); f after." Your friends laugh at you and . call you "baby." It doesn't matter if ' 'i you are thirty-five. Zj The doors of such homes are closed ij I and locked at the specified time. What 1 ' happens to the girl delayed by traffic .Tjl or some unavoidable reason? A night 'd: ' in the park is hardly desirable for a 3) j respectable woman. Even if she has f- ' the price of a hotel room, no good hos-Lf hos-Lf " tlery will admit her without baggage i unattended, on the foolish theory that ; a woman accompanied by any man is f more respectable than one alone. One . , rooming house reports frequently as" ; lodging locked-out girls. But, oh paras' para-s' i dox1 the homes are built to circumvent ; the dangers of rooming houses. , It is time society woke up to the fact I i. t that women who are "good" are so i from preference, not because' rules ; ; hedge them in, and if they want to be i 1 "bad" fifty-seven thousand varieties of ' !j i Iron clad rules won't prevent them. : , Goodness is something inherent in i j character, ingrained and not depend-l depend-l j ent on opportunity. i I 00 |