The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-23
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.


I'm going to make you acquainted
with two women whom know, and
tell you little. poem that I love. to-
day. e x -
The connection and the comment
leave to you. s.5'
The first woman is an cid aeuuaint-
anee of mine. She lives in a beauti-
full home. not far from mine. She has
been married about twenty years but
has no children. They say she is
Sometimes they say more than that.
The empty home Is the disappointment
of her husbands life. He has a more
than ample income and is always urg-
ing her to adopt some lonely baby
but she absolutely refuses.
| She belongs to two bridge clubs and
one civic improvement club, and is on
the committee for 1.-The suppression OF
unnecessary noise.
She keeps her house immaculate.
She keeps but two maids at a time,
but has had nine different ones alto
gether in the last year.
She is the kind of woman who
lodges complaints against shop girls.
street car conductors, etc. Last year
| just before Christmas girl tagged out
with the Christmas rush, went out
| into the street discharged at Madam e
complaint that she answered her
sharply. From another girl at that
| into the street discharged at madame
boxes, and then on not finding what
she wanted had insisted the girl was
not trying to find it. The story also
ran that the girl-who was extremely
| pretty by the way-went out into the
streets the day before Christmas say
| ing that she was not going to try any
more-it wasn't any use.
The other woman, whom I met in
the course of my newspaper work two
years ago, is a woman about whom the
| tongue of rumor is continually saying
cruel things How much is true,
don't know. I don't want to know.
What 1 do know is this: She supports
her father and mother and not only
supports them with rnoney but with
love.
I don't think she ever said an un-
kind word about anybody or passed q
beggar by without giving. There is a
girl in the city who tells this story
about her. She, the young girl, came
to the city looking for work, spent her
savings without getting it and en-
Thanksgiving day was wandering the
streets penni1ess. She met this wom-
an, whom she knew slightly. The
woman on finding out her trouble IN
sisted on lending her five dollars and
| later found her work. Subsequently
| the girl discovered, through very
roundabout channels, that the i've
dollars was not only the woman's last
cent, but a very treasured pocketplece
which. even in her own worst extrem-
lily. she had never parted with.
| There is a fine young man in oul
community with splendid wife and
| baby and an ideal home, who owes
everything to this woman. She found
him a desperate young fool ready fol
any vice. She saw the worth in him
and helped him find himself. Ane
lthen when he would have married hel
in gratitude. she refused because shs
loved him too well
I don't believe that anyone ever suf-
fered any more than she did at thi'
time. and yet through it all, she KEEP
her fine cheerfulness and her merval
Gus interest in other peoples needs
which makes her unique in worlt
Ifi1ed with people saddening the earti
with their troubles, 49,.
The poem is by Joaquin Miller
perhaps you already know it and Low
1t as I do.
In men whom men pronounce divine
II find so much of sin and blot;
In men who men denounce as i'll
IL find so much of goodn ess still.
II hesitate to draw the line
Between the two when md has not