The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29

stay out little late at dance. how you'd
feel to have her come into the kitchen next
day. and teil YOU It was your business to
have given notice that you wouldn't be in
until O'Clock in the morning? Why. her
daughters may be out all hours. and lie In
bed until IL next day. and it's all right.
Just this morning she says to me, in her
meaching kind of way: "Jane. 1t isn't no.
ways good for your helth to set up SO
late every night. I hear you come In after
midnight FIVE nights In week. and next
day your eyes are heavy. and you have
headaches nearly all the time. 1t will in
jure your helth" says she. And there's
another thing what I've been meaning to
speak about. Jane. don't object TO your
having company in the kitchen. You know
that. But when they stay as late as some
Of 'em does and laugh and talk so loud
we can hear them all the way upstairs. 1t
isn't noways pleasant, speshially when the
young ladies has cornpny into the parior."
says she. At that L couldn't help crying,
I was that hurt and says. I'VE girls are
flesh an blood. same as her daughters, and
IT isn't to be expected we shouldn't 90
out and have little fun after shaving like
dogs into hot kitchen all day"
I want you should print this. along with
what other things you say about us In
your paper. It's time somebody. speaks up
the teakittle at her when she said that.
frens am as PHIn Pieh As hsr living IN chicago
Only my father has ben unfortunate, and I
Ther is something wrong somewhere In
this land where the poiertieians are al
the time tellin US everybody Is free and
/ am writing TO you to say. am ieyins my
reads this to tell me where can get 9
place where n get my rights ! am ny Just
piaguey sight better looking. But because
their father rst has s.. 3py s and y poo adss
ana am JANETTx H. c. tNsw York city,.
The foregoing letter Is here tran
scribed verbatim ct literatim from the
original. Said original. I remark. In
passing. Is written upon cream-laid
paper. bearing an engraved address
presumably that of the house Janetta
was leaving upon the day Of her writ
ing. I do not imagine that she went to
the expense of having her own sta
tionery stamped thus when she con-
sidered her residence in East Seventy
fifth street as likely to be OF uncertain
length. Let us hope that she borrowed
the paper and envelope from one Of the
family. 1t is hardly probable that she
ificitiOHeu W WnOui tho NdiOuiSeoiJ was
to be sent
FOR PLEASURE ONLY
Yet I do not feel inclined to ridicule
her or the letter. Instead am sick at
heart at the thought that the mistaken
girl may represent hundreds in her walk
of life. 1 had one of like caIiber last
summer. who told me frankly, when /
had nursed her through a weeks III
ness, brought on by dancing all night
and all day. when she had asked per-
mission to spend a Sunday in town in
the heat of summer: 81 live just for
pleasurel l must have swing and a
'bust-out' just so often or I'd die of the
blues
She was in sober. and not disrespect-
full, earnest. She stated plain fact
Our third letter is brief and strong.
All the writing and preaching you peo-
pr, pie who write write for the pagers and talk TO to
neve that good. Lord ever meant for
Kitchens he Me cur folks xes w61 S1t are m nof b
better better than we are: can roll around In In
dress in fine clothes and eat the fat Of
the land all their lives.
get @ fse asht gsh tt vote all our
@ yu to Be ts s god i as Sby ws wnas hat wao
as you are now.
AS good in many ways. and perhaps
far better in some, than 1 shall ever
be. So may consider myself the equal
lin the sight of Him who made US
both-of the queen of England. But I
might live comfortably and as respect
ably as she all my days, within sight
of her palace. and never expect to be
asked to dine with her. She has her
station and I have mine. There is dis