El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-20
A Girls Bad Temper
She Brings il on Herself by Inat-
tentfon TO the Prophecies OF
Proper Living.
By Beatrice Fairfax. -

.HE little girl Of this So

"HE little girl Of this story was
one Of the Sample girls, large
family OF which you doubtless
have heard many times Her bapds-
NAL name IS 1mmaLerial, but we VIII
cziI ner Grace, that being just the sort
OF name for a girl who was so sweet
and pretty in the beginning
She awakened one morning teellng
strangely depressed and irritable she
hadn't slept Well the morning hao
come too soon, q habit II has unQer
such circumstance, and she craWleu
out of bed without her customary 1eel-
ing OF gratitude for health, strength
and q pleasant home
She dressed quickly and nerVouslys
her irritation finding vent in the man
ner in which she jerked on one gar
ment after another, swapping or
button here and tearing a rent Wlefe
q hook had caught in another place.
The girl was moody and snappy 10
the girl friends she met on her way
to work, and when she reached the
office she opened her typewriter desk
with the same Tesenuful bang she nau
given the door when she lett home
She took her dictatiOn carelessly ana
iuoifferently, mistakes resulted ana
her employer spoke TO her so Sharply
that when she returned from luncheon
there were traces OF tears around the
just the same.
The afternoon was duplicate o.
the morning. and her manner toward
the girls she met on the way home
was so much worse that they FORMED
little groups on the cars and summed
her She hated everybody she mated
her position downtown; she neaIeu
her home with q growing dlsllke Lor
every one in II she knew Just no"
the family would look, what they
would say and what there WoulQ pc
for supper every familiar detail OF
the home appeared in memory as some
thing unbearably hideOus.
She was tired, she was ooreo. She
even. as she opened the door Of her
home wished she were dead, and the
suIlen tones In which she gave a curt
Yes" TO her mothers cheerful m
curry Of as that you, Graceg bore
out her mothers mental diagnosis
OF her case in the morning
Tt is very good thing for every one
TO occasionally take rhouSnt PAIN
and had Grace taken one that day she
would have found that the IaulL lay
not with others. but with herself
A Mistaken Thought.
She was confined in an office all
thought that pursuit OF pleasure at
night meant rest The evenings she
spenL at home were devoted TO read
ing highly seasoned fiction TIL late
1c71r instead of good, wholesome books
iii q reasonable hour and then gong
TO bed Or she invited IN a lew friends
who came at 9 instead Of at 8. and
STAYED till midnight instead or Ul H.
and she made fudge and filled her
stomach with all that is unhOly.
Sometimes she went to a dance and
stayed till =, because she was 700
volng TO know y was late enough,
and on other occasions she went to a
theater and tortured her stomach with
a supper at midnight
She was paying the penalty Tor
overtaXing her strength. She was
buring the candle at both ends, an
illumination that is the funeral pyre
of the grace, the charm, the strength,
the freshness of youth
Are YOU. my dear, like Grace2 Are
you one of the sample girls2