El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-02
COnfessing or Boastings

n EAR MATER:
Deep down in my heart, I al
ways suspected that you were hu-
man, but 1 have kept your secret well
Now that you admit il so frankly. how
ever / have my doubts again. L don Z
know whether you 'are confessing or
! boasting. Which is it. mater DEAR
| Don't you really know that you are
not human at all. You never had a
Wea kneSS in your life. You never
really had an ungenerOUs thought You
are the most generous thing on earth.
1 You have always stinted yourself to
give to me. Don't think 1 have been
blind, mother dear. / have seen you
have the best
I know some girls-girls whom I
I. have recently met here in New York
whose mothers have a great deal OF
money. but who give their daughters
an allowance which, while 10 times as
large as mine. IS not One-tenth as
much in proportion to their mother S
ability to give. / know that II you
had a fortune YOU would give me half
of it and let me be wholly Independent.
As 1t is, you give me nearly all the
profits of that blessed old hotel, and
go without decent clothes Tor yourself
Don't think I misunderstood, you
blessed dear. And you need not boast
to me that you are human. lust
know you are not
I can't help feeling. though. mother
dear, that men are pretty small pOta-
toes. They are all willing to shelve
SpOnsibility-eyen daddy lets you do
everything. I noticed the other day
where the cause Of big wreck was
given as man failure" If there had
been any women employed, 1t would
have been given as woman failure
Men make an awful fuss about the
work they have to do They come
home at night and want to tell you
how OVerWOrked- they are and expect
yOC to Sympathize with them when
you are half dead yourself They think
theirs is the big part of life. I wonder
if they ever look around for the es
sentials. the fundamentals of life.
What are the essentials Food, cloth
ing, shelter and love. The mans job
is a One-track affair-earning money.
The WOman's is a fOur-track affair
she provides, the food, selects the
clothing and keeps it clean, makes,
the home, and provides the love. The
woman attends to the real work Of life,
which is maintaining the home. The
outside game barter and sale. law for
the regulation of life and safety, medi-
cine for the preservation of health-all
are built up around the home. The
man goes out and plays this little out
side game, and gets money for it, which
he brings home as a conQueror, while
the woman does the work and sets
neither credit nor money for it.
Women never get anything as their
right They get nothing but gifts and
privileges They work in the home. but
use subterfuges TO get money! The man
always says that if you knew how hard
it was to earn money, you would not
spend it so easily. Sometimes I think
the only men who are generous are
those who steal money They give Law
iShly to women And when they are
arrested they whine: "a woman led me
astray- I did it to give her fine
clothes" / can't help feeling here in
New York that we women are engaged
in a silent war with men; war to get
from them. Talk about your inheri-
lance tax and other pOpulistic plans
for distributing the wealth of the male
factors Of great wealth. Why, Broad
way chorus girl is of more service to
the nation in keeping money in circula-
ton than an inheritance tax of the
heaviest grade
Mr.. Hurley, L think. is one Of those
Indicators of great wealth. He made
fortune in a big steel company in
Pittsburg. and is now president of two
how important he was until ] met one
OF MS young vice presidents the other
evening tail. blond young man. His
name IS Talbot Springer He viii want
10 marry me in a few days He says 7
ShOuldn be wasting myself in musical
comedy and all that sort of thing. But
the battle is on I am letting Mr.. Hurley
give a dinner for me and three of the
girls OF the company the night before
we leave for the opening on the road.
III tell you all about it later. He's 60
ing TO bring some nice young men.
Ihey can al give as many. dinners as
they ike They're not spending my
money Love and devotion, from e..
Laura.