Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-06
WHAT The LEARNED
man DOESN'T KNOW
Sacrifices For Loved Ones
EndGar Woman
BY Winifred Black.)

versity of Pennsylvania?
| 1t is wicked to wear fifty-cent hat
when you could get a ten-dollar one
just as easy as anything if you'd only
borrow the money to do it? Of course
it is not always easy to find one to
lend you that money the very day the
hat is marked down from fourteen
seventy-fve, but still, poor girls have
moral obligation to dress well.
1t is naughty to wear shabby cloth
es, Professor Patten says so, so Of
course it must be true
What you ought to do, little woman,
you there in the shabby coat; dear,
dear, look at those tight sleeves, and
nobody wears anything but the kimona
effect this year; what you ought to do
is to stop payments on that bit Of
insurance you are trying to provide
for the children in case that cough OF
yours should get worse this winter.
What does it matter about the chill
dren; who cares for them but you, and
you ought not to care, so Professor
Patten thinks, No indeed, not a whit?
What is Johnnie to you, and why
should you always be thinking of lit
tie Kate and what she has to wear?
Worse than that, it's wicked, down.
right wicked; didn't you hear the pro-
fessor say so
You mustn't think of the children.
you mustn't think of the old mother
who depends on you for bread.
What if the old mother did scrimp
and save to get you your first party
dress, what if she sat up nearly all
right to get that graduation frock
done in time for you? When you told
her you were going to be married she
cried little but she kissed you, too.
and wished you well, you that were
the core of her heart, you who were
leaving her for a light-hearted stran-
ger with rowing and a merry eye
And now the light-hearted stranger
has left you with your children hang
ing about your neck, and she has come
to help you take decent care of them
come through the hunger and the cold
and the distance just as she came
through the dark when you were littic
and cried out to her in the night.
Well, maybe it's all your own fault
the husband going away like this.
Perhaps if you had worn a nice ten
dollar hat he wouldn't have done it
Men are such sensitive things, so cas-
lily affected by every little bow of rib
bon, every dancing feather that Whit
fets in the wind You must always
remember to look pretty-or they II
forget to love you.
And that is the important thing t9I
keep the love and alteration of tho
man who will leave you at the beck
q a slender finger.
And it is so easy, this alteration
business; all you have to do is to look
pretty every minute, tired or i'll or
hungry, or cold, or sick of heart, Or
maddened with the the bitter injustice
of the world, look pretty, look pretty
or you lose all there is to live for.
Tut, tut! What a silly little woman
to forget that. Why, the Haunting girl
down there at the corner could have
told you that, she's known it ever since
she could make eyes
What too busy? Busy-at whac
pray tell? Mending little stockings
and patching little frocks? Turning
your old dress to make a new one for
| little Kate? Buying ten cents worth
of round steak and cooking it VITA
cunning care to make it nourishing
and good? Starching and ruffling the
curtains for your little front room?
Haunting the bargain shops?
Why, that's a crime, too; didn't 20
know that? and, besides, it's a joke.
Haven't you read the funny papers;
| it's a great Joke the bargain counter