Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-12-07
FROM A wOMAN's VIEWPOINT.

Grafton Tor the man VIM Son pRsA
the English language as II he had
been born with all Of It In MS
mouth, and the extract from an obit-
uary notice, which is here quoted
has me going south. Some western
editor seized his battered typewriter,
descended upon the dictionary ana
with one fell swoop removed the fol-
lowing:
His death was caused by COM
plication of diseases, superinduced
and exaggerated by an over-indul-
gence in spirituous liquors which
suited in inebriety."
And now, with such words as are
left in the impoverished language,
this column will limp gamely on.
AS have said before, sympathy
is a heavenly thing, but 1t doesn't
nay to go around unloading 1t on
every helpless fellow being who
strikes you as needing 1t. -"
likely he doesn't, and, in that case,
he isn't going to be bashful about
telling you so. know girl,
good, sensible, Iovable girl, who sud-
denly developed large, unhealthy
idea that she had about the biggest
bunch of trouble that had been re-
Gently bestowed upon this suffering
earth. 1t was some time before !
could lay finger on the spot, but
when l did 1t struck me that what
she needed was work. Out OF the
mistaken kindness of my heart
recommended a place ! knew she
could fill in a city bank and offered
my feeble influence to help her get
1t.
And did she fairly bubble over
with gratitude. She did not. She
wrote me:
"What on earth are you driving
at, anyhow? Why should want
to make good in business when
there are SO many other things to
be done that I'd rather do? What
I want is a home of my own" etc,
etc.
Bless the lamb. It's the same "as
1t was in the beginning, is now and
ever shall be, world without end,
she wants home of her own"
And she utterly ignored my honest
endeavor to give her what ! thought
she wanted, and turned me down
cold because | wasn't in position to
hand her over a deed to a cottage
built for two and the man neces-
saiily attached.
l think every woman who earns
her own way has great, broad, hui
man sympathies for other women
and a deep-rooted desire to help
hem get what they want out OF life.
But that girl will have to get what
he wants, unaided and unabetted
BY me. It's out of my line.
1t is fully as blessed to know how
% receive as to know how to give,
and 1t takes a great deal more tact.
The girls have been drifting back
into the offices for their summer
vacations. A mans vacation 10
shorter, but nearer the real thing
than a woman's. He takes his old
clothes and two weeks off and hikes
for some quiet place up the river
where he can fish to his hearts con-
tent for fourteen days. Sundays not
barred, A woman is different. She
takes all her best clothes, one
time and all her accumu-
lated savings of the other eleven
and starts, not for a vaca-
ton Of rest, but for the time of her
life. Sometimes she gets 1t. And
If she doesn't it's her own funeral,
anyway, and she'll tell you so.
Angelina came in the other day
from q four weeks sojourn by the
sea waves. When she told me last
spring of this proposed trip, 1t
sounded good enough. There was
1t would seem, to interfere
with her leading simple, restful
existence, and coming back to the
office brown and fat, morally, spir-
itually and physically strengthened
for the wear and tear of another
year. The provinces and fairness
and RESIDENCES are not, however,
visible to the naked eye, though at
least one person in this office has
had presence of mind enough to re-
frain from mentioning it. But when
watched Angeline unpack one
steamer trunk, one suit case, two
hat boxes and a travelling bag, and
shake out the frills and flummeries
Of her summer wardrobe; when !
picked a pair of black velvet shoes
off the bosom Of her thinnest white
frock and tucked them in the shoe
bag. and By a stroke Of genius.