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Show ;AN EDITORIAL BY FLORENCE DAVIES "GOOD ENOUGH." It's a great old game, this great American game of bluff and the way to learn It Is by the famous and much traveled road of short-cut and the easy rules of ' good enough" and "no- 1 one-will -know -the-dlff erenrc." But though the plSvera some time seem to win hlph scores they often find thnt the game Isn't very well worth while after all. For today's high score may bo matched by tomorrow' j falluro and so the game or bluff has j its drawbacks. I But we women with our many in - J I'terests, our business and clubs and homer, which some of us keep In no-tweeii no-tweeii committee meetings and club papers arc more and more often tempted to play this came of bluri. Soni' time ago. a woman was asked ask-ed to read some of her verses before be-fore her club. The meeting was ai month off and in that month she stud-Led stud-Led With a skilled elocutionist an t ', spent hours in hard drilling to learn to read her poetry as well as it could be read. ' How foolish you are," sail a frlotld in arna:;enienc" to make such a fuss over a little club nKtlnc. There won't be a dozen women there and I hey won't know the difference." "But I v.ill," replied the woman, "and I'm going to do this as well it can bo done " Whether or not they knew the difference dif-ference some one must have guessed I It. for today the once obscure maker of verses filling speaking engagements engage-ments all over the country. "No," said another woman, who has i finally won a pood income for herself i by writing, "I never found th:t the short ni me thod worked. I have just I sold a story that went out for the 31st time. I b. iieved it was good and I kept right on sending it out and the i magazine that finally bought it wius : one of the biggest in the country." modern women do undertake big things and accomplish wonders. I . Know a bit about books and go in for music and belong to the vf appreciation society, and Bomi of us. sew rather cleverly and make good : salads and serve on committees. An I all that we undertake is fine and ! wholesome and commendable. But I ' what do you suppose would happen, if each one of us decided to do some J one of these things as well as It j i could be done, and let some Of the other things go? I Wouldn't that pay a little larger dlv-l I idends in satisfaction than we get j from investing time in the delight- j fully modern art of dabbling. oo |