The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-25
THE ELDER SISTER Until Her Future Is Provided for the Others Must Be
 Held Back.
 ---as-r----z--- A BIG "FAMILY GAME" The Little Sisters Are Packed or to Boarding school, Where They
 Are Out of the Way.

Tho Chicago Journal has published the following interesting editorial in seldom-touched-o subject:
 Unfortunately It too often happens that the beauty which would sit so well upon the elder sister passes her by and alghts with all It's light and bloom upon No. 2.
 This Is hard enough to bear, but IS preferable to the spectacle which one frequently sees of a flock of plain girls while the only brother has long eye lashes. limpid melting eyes, a skin like Q peach and--heavens, o heavens! how can we bear lt?-halr which curls nat urally. That, I grant you, comes un- der the head of real calamities.
 However, whether the elder sister is plain or beautiful if she remains too long upon the parent stem she is oblig- ed to contend at last with one enemy which women of every age dread, and that Is the woman of more youth.
 Youth Is the one dread foe which vanqushes the most valiant spirit. Ere quently the woman armed with 1t lacks contour purity of feature and soul yet she captures every cup offered by the sheer exuberance and freshness of her abounding youthful charm.
 Between sisters that breeds trouble. The elder, having held precedence so long naturally has her eye on all usurpcrs of her superiority, and when she sees the eyes of her own admirers wandering wstfuly to the corner where little sister, with her roguish eyes and tumblng curls sits, drawing attentions which should by right be hers, she naturally takes steps to per- petuate her own hard won supremacy
 This, of course takes It's first form Tn an appeal to mother, because moth er understands Father doesn't He, poor fond soul, often finds himself wishing that "the children" would not marry at all or, at least, for a very long time, because lt Is such sweet picture to see the young faces grouped around the table and to hear the fresh young voices make music in the house
 So father would do nothing to adjust a state of things which ho never un- derstcod anyway.
 But mother, Mother knows Because, as likely as not she had to go through with the came experience whcn she was girl She knows that each one of her girls must marry or else work for her living at some trade She doesn't stop to think that marriage Is often the hardest trade q woman can work at, and frequently with the least pay
 So mother interferes and "has talk" with the younger girls She points out to them that until the eldest sister has "hnd her chance they, tho younger ones must keep out of sight of the prey being hunted lest they interfere with sisters chances"
 Then dresses already short are made shorter, to carry out the idea of more vouthrulness than ls natural hair is forbidden to be "done up" and every thing Is done to keep the field clear
 You'd better submit, you little girls when this is being done, for if you don't accept amicaby you'll be in dan ger of being packed off to boarding school where you can't interfere with the game heinz played in every family in this broad land of ours-the game of catching a husband 70 that our women won't have to work V
 Nn odd thing, fife