The Holly chieftain., 1914-01-02
WORK And EQUALITY
sy GRACE HC--

There goes Viola! ....- stem
ographer whispered T.. .. lu Nor
visitor. as she watch. .al hurry
ing TO the elevator. d.. .l .-l- pa
reat with preconceiyed .."'- q" TO the
way to bring up la..s ought 10
meet Niola's father
Viola is rather 81. lived up
for a business womau N..lag al
teruooa, isn't she? ".t sa. 3D. got a
right to be, for she's mr H4ups aecre-
tary and she's goinE .r b. .naHfed
aud is most sumptuog..F entertained
almost daily! Yes, j tell you about
her.
You know Mr.. Cs.. her father
has been talking to DE aHau, ms
daughter ever since . oaHr TO work
lgv this firm. He say ought 70 feel
proud of my place. ayrE IN the
world. ant. so forth. l'.. he'd always
end Up by declaring jn. VIOLA wasn't
10 he q parasite and @ she Nas
child after hts own a'"r she be-
Iieved in woman's We nd equality,
and all that. and VIII she'd finished
college she was going tu do something
worth while!
FINALLY Viola grad l forget
how many years oyer a-. above the
first four it took her o get through.
but her father called t.u po5tgradu-
ate years. and no one else cared.
when Viola failed to find pub,
Usher for her novel, NhoA ii look he
a year TO write, and .n she didn't
take to social settlemrar work or
woman's movements, papa got LerV-
ous for her to get int oma.a.ng but
none Of the oTdina,y pursuits, it
seemed. appealed TO little Viola.
FINALLY I told hin Lat ! thought
she'd make good sten"~Ihor J as
sured him that it too bIaius and ed
ucation and capacity o compete with
most of US, and it wa such a fruitful
lield-so few in it! Well he took 1t
all in-never suspected for a moment
that there was sarcasU IN my sugges-
ton. So Viola took the training.
Mr.. Gray was in tEa clouds during
those months. He devoted fOuT-iifths
of his time to telling .o what new ia
cilities for high-grade Office work Viola
was going to bring whom she arrived
. for he would have Gur for his pri-
yate secretary. They planned things
at home, he said.
"Well, got alarmed -ad began real
ly to work to earn lily salary, for
didn't dare let Viola cone into the Of
fee and prove moro satisfactory than
I!
Before Viola arrived to go to work.
not only l, but tha whole Office force
knew just how clever Viola was. Wed
all seen Viola when she had come to
call on papa, and Jimmy, the Office
boy, who hadn't realIzed who she was
discovered that he resembled nothing
else SO much as iust plain atmos,
phere! She sailed past US all into
his inner oflice-anI then little later
she sailed RIGHT out again without
glancing around.
so when Mr. Cray came in late
one morning with Viola and intro
duced her to rs all before usherng
her into mis- private office we were
prepared for the chilly reception we
got from her. We lost none Of our
curiosity to see what happened
"She relieved me Of all her fathers
work, and | was ra.her glad. for he'd
been getting to be a "aisance-keepine
me there hours over one letter talking
about Viola
Well one night Jimmy called me
over and let me soc a letter he was
sealing. 1t was SORT of kid finished
all over, from nearly every word hav'
ing been erased. ard it was rather
mussy affair fer u3 to send out
but it had Viola's jaltials and her fa'
ther's signature at the foot.
"One morning Nr Cray came down
alone to the Office ard he called me in
for dctation. He hud pile of letters
foot high, and w" Iust were buried
in work. There were letters q week
old-impo-tant ones. Then I could
see the ccnnectiol tween Mr.. Gray's
increasing crows feet and the hgnr