The Marshall republican., 1914-02-06
TuE ON STORY.

man. but there are times OF the year
when % jack-ol-all-tradcs IS out OF a
job. From out OF this scant earnings
he paid rent ON "a miserable cottage
and fed his family. which, as Is fire.
uunotly the ease. was larger than tho
average. lie WAS iuitcraic and de-
tcrmincd that his children should
have un education.
We we're driving into town ouc day
and picked him up as hc walked from
nis work; although only slightly &c
wuiutcd. be- unburdoncd himself.
thus.
DO you know, there are some
THINGS I can't understand. .Now ono
,l our uyighhors b. % good enough
woman. { guess. but she just seems 10
take delight In tearing down the
good name Of 20 gill who o. not lin the
crowd. and must work for a living.
She has caused u8 trouble enough 90
drive one Wild. our girls go 10 school
through the school year and then
work out the rest al the year to bug
books and clothes 10 keep them IN
.cuooi the nest term We are poor;
Wc are strangers and have no way d,
% .ht the gossip that this omu has
ta.'nl. She u "a mother, too, and
beer hair o. Whit, and they fJy whit,
hair J. honorable
Poor fellow 10 WAS an unequal.
iight' that was years aye. aud pcrFc.
yor.uoc won. THOSE girls. oicry one
cot them. stayed In school. hroadpuod
mentally. made good iu the world,
and are noW happy. youtcntcd wives
Ild mothers.
We hear about mans iuhumaulty
To- man.. but what OF woman'B lnhu-
man,ty OF woman? Il the woman In
question really thought that those
girlH were q little lndcscrcct, why
couldn't she have boon hig enough 60
consider tho enforcement In which
thoy had bcon compelled to live? In
stead OF trying TO tear them down
Why did she not ny rirst gcttiug
next 10 them. and letting them
know she really cared use her influ-
oncc 10 help thcm aoc the safer, better.
way o. their social lie?
4 young girl had been an apt pupil
bat with few advantage; she could
no; 500 away 10 attend high school,
ana % took q review course ~ the
country school, The teacher was q
vy,y conscientious ycung woman and
gave her all the aid she possible
could. She went TO the examination
Tor teachers and there met the neigh
hur girls who had completed the
stipulated number ct years.
The poor girl was openly Jorred and
laughed to scoru by those who should
have been above q. she did not get
the required grade In all the branches
and, sick ut heart, with 4 seneo Of ut
ter failure, she put away her books,
and was ON the point of giving mp all
h'l NH'l lnl'u Nhl'nt
a woman who had not passed"
when she first tried u similar exam
inution sent Tor the young womun
She urged, implored, and by n vivid
description OF her own partial fail
failure, and later success, inspired
the Discouraged girl not TO give up the
+, fight. You think the world Is aRa-
inst you because YOU are a working
| girl, II Is a mistake; II Is the people
who can do things that this hustling
cid world needs, Get away from this
, narrow, one-sided neighborhood. and
away from people who cannot appre-
ciate earnest endeayor. owning Il
farm does not spell success by n
| means"
4 Tho young woman went homo and
brought her books from their hiding
place, All through the summer she
A gave the matter her undivided atten-
ton. Her mother sold half Of her
I flock Of hens TO send her TO the annu-
al normal short course. She received
4 a ~creditable grade, was employed by a
A hoard OF directors, who appreciated
n her earnest, conscientious work; that
@ was three years ago. aud she Is still
a retained in the anne place with an
a increase in salary each year.
+ People there are, who are eager %
Y "Christiani2e the world" They talk
II; they are so taken with some pos
sible great deed, that they fail to see
G the present smaller ones, Their idea
Of 'Chrlstianizlng" Is TO throw up
their hands In horror II a working
= girl presses a waist that she had not
time to do through the week before
she starts to Sunday school. II every
woman would consider herself a COM
mittee OF one 10 give aid 10 the needy,