Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-16

girl with old fashioned notions about hold
ing onto her good name and telling her
mother half she knows. I've been a cashgrl
and I've been a saleslady, and last year l
took lessons IN manlcur1ng because you can
learn that quicker than stenography or
keeping books. But it. not so easy to get
job at that. They want not only pretty
girls, but girls that are bright and jolly all
the time so they will attract the men. |
can't force smile if my life depended on it.
| don't want to dodge what's right,-I'm
perfectly willing to do my share. don't
kick at taking care of the home folks and
buying patent medicines for them,-all l
want is hall bedroom of my own, some
place where l can be alone. suppose that
seems funny ambition to YOU"
No. Page said, 1T seems very natural
one. Perhaps" the girl across the table
looked him evenly in the eyes,-"per-
haps-" Page repeated. Just for that mo-
ment he had forgotten the change that had
taken place in his life. A few hours before
he could have found her place in one of his
fathers many concerns where she would
have been we'll paid and we'll sheltered.
Nothing" he said; I'D forgotten. I
thought might be of some little use to you;
but remember l can't now" He tried to
smile; but even this seemed out of place
when he looked at the absurdly painted lit
tie face and the round wistful eyes. She
seemed so wholly inadequate to make any
fight at all in the world.
I EONIE was still looking at him. Il can't
make you out at ALL" she said, mot at
all. Tell me what were you thinking of just
now, the girl over there in the box?" r
WAS THINKING - 10 cai6 "that there
were a great many kinds of unhappiness.
You have yours, and the girl over there has
hers, and have mine
Leonie glanced at the box and shook her
head. why should she be unhappy"
Page shrugged his shoulders. "Disap-
pointed, perhaps"
I'm love?"
The young mans lips broke into smile.
mo, not exactly. | think she's very much
disappointed in friend,-a young man
whom she has known all her life and of whom
she expected great deal, who didn't make
good. He disappointed her in little ways
and in big ways; but she always kept on try
ing to make him see her sincere, clean way of
looking at things; but l guess, just because
he was selfish and weak, he went on his own
way, which wasn't very clean and not very
sincere is on the surface
The extra girl shook her head in SYM
His father is, which in this case is, or
rather was, the same thing"
The girl leaned her elbows on the table and
rested her chin between her palms. WELL
she whispered, what happened them"
What happened then? Well, then one
day she asked him particularly to meet her
at dinner and go to the theater; because she
was leaving town the next day for the sum-
mer and wanted to talk to him, l suppose"
And he didn't go?"
mo. He begged off, on the excuse that
he had an important engagement to dine
with his father. And, as luck would have it,
after dinner his father very properly turned
him out of his beautiful home and told him
to go shift for himself, because the son was
no possible good to anyone. Then, as luck
would have it again, the girl saw him that
night leading what she thought was a gay
life, but wasn't
why didn't he EXPLAIN" Leonie asked
with much apparent sympathy.
Page shook his head. What was the use?
He had nothing put out of his own
home. Broke financially, and morally
broke"
FOR few moments there was silence be-
tween them while they looked down at