Omaha daily bee., 1913-10-01


tho holdup. the west Of the wild gulches
and fearful ravines. Bless you, child
that isn't the real west at ALL
Cone on out and wen show you How
many electric lights are there in the lit
tie Village where you visit Aunt Elika7
Just a dozen on the main street. Come
out west and I'll show you a thousand
in one little wild west street and auto
mobiles, one to family, almost, and fire.
less cookers and iceless iceboxes and wire
less. stations-and, Oh, all sorts OF things
you think are just in your big cities.
Where do you live, you honest little
SOUL you-ip some tenement. with a win.
dow in an airshaft and a janitof who'll
speak to you If you give him the right
tip, and an ice man who yells at you as
IL you were some kind Of slave to his
ring?
Who are you living with--Brother John
and his wife? Does Brother Jehps wife
hint that there would be lots more room
In the flat If you had a position and are
you and Brother John trying TO get a
pull to get one'-trying so hard that
yuf did your best to smile crookedly at
the eoarse creature who controls the ap-
pointments In your district, even after he
had frightened you half to death by the
way he looked at you?
or do you board out in the suburbs
somewhere. with the trains booming by
every half minute and the people in the
house furious II you call IL flat and
not an apartment?
Come west. little woman come west
ana grow UP with Montana. Come west
and ride a cayuse-it's easy-you won't
need a riding habit. Just blouse and
~ st-k- -,rtIt 4 4 IL
hangs III G thick braid down your back,
why, so much the better
Come west and be a person Stop being
"a humberAbe personF A person who
counts, not just ''the school teacher on
the third floor" but school marm-down
at the corners-admired of all admirers,
the glass Of fashion and the mold Of
form. That old dress OF yours win be
just the thing at the corners-nobody will
Know and nobody will care II 1t is a
year behind the times.
They see you first and your clothes af-
terward. It's a way they have in Mon
tana. They'll like your bright eyes and
your honest ways. and your laugh, aud
the way you slur over your RS. They'll
imaneuver TO get you to say "thoid" when
you mean third, and when they laugh 1t
will be a kindly laugh, not a cruel one;
and they won't care whether you know
the Astors and whether you were ever
invited to a patriarohs' ball or not The
more fools they for not knowing you
that will be Montana's verdict.
Come out west and be an American a
real American with real American ideas,
a real American with something in your
head besides who was in Society Notes
this week: e. real American with real
friends, real feelings, real loves, real
hates, real ambitions, real joys and real
sorrows. They wear so much better than
the imitation ones.
Smiths boy didn't come to school to-
day. Wonder what's wrong? Get on your
pony and ride over and see. What down
with the measles and Mrs. Smith worn
out?" Stay all night and help her take
care of the boy.
Tired? OF course you win be tired.
You've been tired after dance many a
time. haven't you, and lived through It?
Be tired. good and tired. over something
worth while and see how sweet your first
sleep will be afterward.
Mary Brown has run away with the
eow-puncher. Go and see her mother and
tell her the cow-puncher isn't such a bad
sort after all, and you hear he's quite
a hustler when it comes TO work. and
Mary is so bright she'll soon get him
steadied down.
Take your place in the little world. the
big world, the real world, and be part
of it-not just locker on from a seat
at the movies.
Wanted-Rural Teachers. $50 a month,
for Montana. Come on out west, little
girl. and grow up with the country-you
need II and the country needs you!