Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-20
Girls Who Are
Considerable


ITS no use." sighed the industrioui
girl as she looked up from stockin,
she was trying TO darn. None Of m,
theories work for more than a week.
Whats wrong now?" inquired tn,
one stunning member Of the crowd
Have you turned the other cheel
once too often. or what?"
"Oh, dear me, no." replied the I'm
dustrious girl you know gave thai
up long ago. But I told you, didn't I
that my brother is married? Well
you know I've always believed in
woman in woman's sphere and all
that sort Of thing. and it doesn't work
at all.
He married a girl Just out OF
school-nice pretty girl, fresh and
charming and all that. Could cooh
some, and play, too. Well, sometimes
he can't get home when he says he
will, and then she goes about looking
like a small sized thunder cloud and
tries to stir up things generally,
don't believe 1t is the fault OF any
thing except that she never was down
town herself and SO doesn't know
what things are liable to- turn up"
The industrious one gave her needle
a vicious yank and looked hard at the
rest to see II they agreed with her.
We'll. my DEAR" drawled the fam.
lily peacemaker, you see how good II
is for you to have had this expert
ence. Now, II your brother had mar.
! ried girl like one Of us, for instance
girls who for good while have
been supporting ourselves more or
less-he probably would feel that he
had acquired a chum, and a good
one. too, but he'd miss the freshness
that the other girl has.
Il don't know a single girl who has
worked downtown who isn't more con-
siderate of the man she marries than
Is a girl who hasn't worked down
town. OF course we lose lot OF the
gloss and all that, but we get some
thing which has higher value, hon
estly believe.
Now, take me for instance. Here
I've been working for ten years or so,
and last year met young girl from
the south. / don't believe she ever did
thing for herself in her life, at least
not In the way of making money; but
she was sweet and gentle, like all
southerners, and could make perfect
ly delicious gowns and could play a
little, and everybody liked her.
"All the men she met thought she
was fetching, and she was. l thought
so, too, but | felt like a battered old
war horse beside her. | looked at
everything so differently.
Things that bothered her nearly to
death didn't even notice, and a man
just a mere man-didn't mean any
thing more to me than a girl would.
You understand that when you are
with them all day you get sort Of
used to them"
This was added In a rather apologet.
ic manner, for the peacemaker knows
that the stunning girl. though she,
too, sees men every day, still takes
somewhat violent interest In them, at
least In certain ones, and no dis.
paraging remarks are allowed.
But to come back to the original
remark of yours" went on the peace.
maker, Il think you are nearly right.
Not that | want to pun you up, you
know, but | don't believe a girl ap.
preciates a home and all 1t means I'm.
til she has been away from 1t. Ever
since Mother Eve puttered around the
garden and found the tree, girls have
wanted to putter. too. and you can't
putter when you work downtown. Be
sides, girl who has had to work
knows how much more fun II is to
stay at home and do something else
than go downtown and hear in the
mornings mail that Smith, Brown q
Co. have sent In a large order which
will have prompt attention.
"As for me and my house." declared
the peacemaker. firmly, I'VE would
rather make out list for the grocery
than write patent specifications, and n
know I'd rather make nice loaf OF
bread than hammer at a typewriter.
But then, what's the usel Why re-
pine?" And the peacemaker went
back 10 her book.