El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-12
=: An O1d-Fashioned Mother -:
CopYrighted 1913. bY L. PhiIadelphia Inruirer "a

AlShL6u 1915, Dy LnS EnllaQ6lphla inquirer
! and lifting a ton of water out of the
sea The difference between Mrs Far
/ RELY and Annette Kellerman is that
one lifts the water and the other dives
into it; Mrs. Farrelly can't get $3.50 by
working all year and Annette gets at
least that much for diving into water
a lew tunes a day Don't think I'm
hard hearted, but. oh dear. this subtle
way Of making me feel small and friv-
olous and useless does so get on my
If YOU wanted me to be a fine noble
and sacrificing woman who would carry
[ ton of water every day. why on earth
Sld you send me TO college where I
learned to love beautiful things and
comfort and where I came to regard
Inese things as my inalienable right
W ny did you try to make me a daintier
little girl than all the others in the
town? The Wav to have made me use
IuI and Self-supDOrting was not to send
me to college They don't teach Won
best COLLEGES YOU know.
L really believe. sometimes mater
dear. thatyou would prefer me to be a
ca!Ious- handed creature working over a
tub If 1t IS any consolation to YOU. I
VIII tell you that you are my only Wis
1ble means of support. Without the
money that YOU are sending me- /
could not continue taking my singing
lessons and could not pursue nv desire
some day to sing in opera
But could 90 to work. couIdu'f To
ana Wnat would ] dO2 For what am 7
fitted2 I haven't been trained for anv-
thing but to sing I know YOU do NOT
even approve wholly of my desire for a
position as grand opera singer. Much
lses would you approve of the one thing
IN winch L could earn a decent living
IN HuSlcal comedy And vet that is
exactly what I think 1 ought to do
1t is not easy for me to take money
Ihat DO not earn, even from my moth
err l know You give it freely enousyb
but after. all mater dear. Won 40 feel
aara Il - Z a
70 account Tor every cent 7 often Won
Ger whether it is the right of any hT-
man ma ,peirg to criticize another Haven't
We all the right to make our own lfvesf
Lnose who wish to give to Others
should give without question Either
they should give and Immediately cut
themselves off from all control Of the
SlIt. and without claiming ownership
over the person 10 whom they do Give
or else they should not give at all If
you stopped sending me money 7 vy-cuId
sun IlVe J. would make my own life
living. ~"
Carrying a ton Of water is honorable
employment, but = contend that II
would not be less honorable for Mrs
r arrelly to earn bread for her children
Dy singing. on the stage if her looks
ana her voice warranted her in the nm
uer taklnS II a stage has been well
swept and scrubbed and is free from
germs, do not see how If can contain
mate any good woman Good rfo-bf
mater dear I don't feel there is ~
I ming else to say. I don't mean to be
unaDDreclative Of all you have done
Iof me. ever since I was child. but
/ am 2 woman now-an entitv-qnd
each OF US must be the master of his
own soul With love from-LauFa
HoIbrook, Va. Sept.
DEAR LAURA suppose the
MI mistake I make in not trying
more sconscientiously to put my
self in your place If had not been
forced to work when was a girl. if
had not been born into it. probably
would have had no taste for it. think
most of US are born-to be pleasure low
ers; But once you get the knack Of
making money or of saving it, you want
10 keep on. suppose it is part of the
law of compensation that makes half
of the world producers and the other
haif consumers. Rich men make mil
lions, and the Lord ordains that they
snail have sons to keep the millions in
As you know, I am a great believer in
the law of compensation. I even believe
lhat the high cost of living, which we
Demoan so constantly, may be a bles-
sing IN disguise. Profits from farming
were so small that the sons of farmers