Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-11-21

a CAREER.
lRN Louise IIeilgcrs.


lie. IL Ia not want to get married.
stuff and nonsense" Mrs. Meek look
cd up Indignantly over her >pcctacle>.
~Of course YOU want To get married.
Every respectable girl wants 10 Get mar
ricd. Its only the ones who can't who
say they won't"
Well anyway. | won't. replied Mil
lie. dorgedl,. There are other things i'm
the world besides marriage. better things
She finished defiamtly with a tilt of her
firm chin.
And suppose your crazy idea Of 4
career i ore.
Yes. mother. that j. what want and
what | intend Ia have
Not thi ugh me. anyway" cried her
mother. her Ill bosom heaving with an
ger. None If my money goes 10 have YOU
learn shorthand and typcwriting and
such nonsense. | don like these ncwfaR-
glcd ideas Of girls working in offices with
men. 1t is nothing but Irritation and what
j. worse
Don't be- ridiculous mother. II j. such
an old fashioned idea Ia imagine the mo
mcnt 4 man il alone with \ FRI h. must
love Ia her. Rita has been in the
same office for wears and says she does
not think her employer would recognize
her il h. met her in the street
oh. Rita" Mrs. Meek shifted. con
t~cmptuouSlv. "a girl with a face like a
pie plate and 4 figure like an ironing
board. | can quite believe that. But an
office j. no place for a pretty girl and
You are ~goodlooking. Mile. although |
say il as | shouldn't
Her ewes wandered complacently over
the pink and white specimen Of Young
womanhood standing straight and firm
before her.
Il might work for Il woman. mother,
plenty of them EMPLOY Sicnographcrs
nowadays. And later on. if ] get on a.
we'll a. | mean to. | could even start in
business for myself
You remind me Of the girl ia the story
who was going t. make a fortune out Of
a jug of milk. or Il pat of butter. or Il new
laid ego. or something. OF course she did
nothing Of the kind and neither will YOU.
And now We are going To have no more
arguments. There j. Alfred
Yes. there j. Alfred" the girl replied
and she saw before her minds eye an ae-
curatc portrait If that pimply faced youth
with his 20 Shillings a week and awful
rcadymade ties. Il can't marry him,
mother. | simply can't, and what i more
= won't
But she did. The constant pressure 81
her mothers determination finally swept
away her resistance. Alfred and matri-
monv established her in select apartments
kept by the usual landlady and the usual
cat.
Mrs. Meek wcpt teams Of JOY when she
came 10 zee Mile.
Now ii last | can die in peace, she
said dramatically. i declare" she went
on. turning TO Alfred. there's many q
night I've not been able 10 sleep think.
ing of Mile and her foOlishncss Not
wanting to marry. indeed, with all this
waiting for her" She waved a pudey
hand in the direction of a japanese paper
Ian and 4 framed memorial card setting
forth the lead and gone virtues OF one OF
the landlady's relations.
''Ob. we'll. Alfred was indulgcnt. she
knows better now. Nothing like marrying.
Mile. j. there lie laid "A not Ovcr-clean
hand on her shoulder. That's a career. il
YOU like
The best" exclaimed Mrs. Meek fer
vcntly.
The only one" supplemented Alfred
with = rolling Of the tongue.
Milliccnt said nothing al all.
~ =
Milliccnt died when her third babywas
born. Her husband was Outat the time
With a few other kindred spirits he sat
discussing the militant S%uffragcttc ques-
ton i'll the corner saloon.
IF yoG ask me-" he said ponderously,
"they should have their blessed necks
wrung." lie paused to blow the froth off
hi bccd. II Ill comes Of giving womel
too much liberty. A woman's proper place
i her home. There r. only m thing to do
with a woman-marry her. II YOU give
"A woman 4 baby. she won't bother about
the vote"
lie drank his beer To a murmur Of ap-
planSc.
y -.
NiIliccnt in the meantime lay smiling
coldlv With 4 dead baby in the curve ~
i stiff arm. She "a least would never
bother about ANYTHING again. But she
h,J harn saved from \ career" and that.