The Washington herald., 1911-08-19

The work-a-day girl has come home
from swell outing"
Distant altruistic cousins, who live in
pressed-brick mansions with brown
stone fronts, invited her to spend two
weeks vacation at their expense, so the
work-a-day girl spent all the money she
could scrape together in fluffy togs, and
crowded each vacation day with sea-
shore f1uttering, sailing over heavenly
blue waters, and indulging in other joys
which distant cousins deem as neces-
sary as food, and little more so.
The work-a-day girl had rafting
good time which would have been just
the thing to have swept the cobweos Oh
too much work from her brain had II
not swept away the common horse sense
of which she used to brag along with the
cobwebs.
For. YOU see. the work-a-day girl came
back to the tall Office building in which
her work-a-day life is spent with sadly
twisted philosophy.
The Worm of Discomfort.
She kept wondering why some girls
must hustle invoices and take dictation
while others have all the time there Is
at there disposal in which to enjoy life
and her boss wondered how long she
was going to take to eject these thoughts
from her mind and give her strict atten-
ton to the work which he is paying her
to do
The other day when she was through
taking a letter from him she slammed
down her-note book disgustedly and
spent a full fifteen minutes staring out
of the window, and when she went back
to her work it was with an air that
plainly said the color of her life was
indigo.
Her boss is a pretty understanding sort
of chap, but even so he has the interests
of his business to consider and could not
afford TO let the little work-a-day girl
go on forever dreaming.
In the second week of her discomfort
her health began to reflect the color Of
her thoughts, and she was driven home
repeatedly before closing time by head
aches, while he boss began his plans to
efll her place with a girl who had COM
mon sense enough to accept the bless
ings OF her life as she found them.
Summer Filtration.
In the meantime the work-a-day girl.
with the memory of certain honeyed
things in the back of her head that had
been ardently repeated to her by a male
friend of the distant cousins, had written
to him, and dreamed more dreams of a
life of opulence, when he should accept
her invitation to visit her at home,
which she was quite confident would de-
Yelop a "happy-ever-after" alliance.
But no answer came to her from the
seashore acquaintance, who by this time
had made love to scores of other silly
little girls, and had quite forgotten the
work-a-day girl, who had amused him
a few weeks previous.
On a morning when she had quite
given up hopes of hearing from him, and
she emitted heavy sighs over her work,
the boss handed her her walking papers
The work-a-day girl received her dis
missal sullenly. and went her way to
find another
She may find another job, but unless
she is able to awaken from her dream
of money and leisure and come sensibly
back to her work-a-day life she will
find the new position harder to hold than
the one she has just lost
When swell things are going to be-
fuddle ones clear common sense, and
destroy ones contentment in the long
months of work that must follow the