The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-06-15
Copyright Ivi

No. j6-MariOn Agrees to Work
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Nnt opposite to Marion my sister.
listening 10 her hard words that pie.
lurrd her quurre with my slstrr.m
law Marta. aud my brother Ed / did
net know what 10 say to her In the
past Few weeks / had been working
with aud making friends with girls
who rnrued their living In the minor
pnrts aud ln the choru-rS Of musical
productions My sister would have
rulled these girls vulgar" Perhaps
She would have been unwilling tu
lunch or to dime with them. Rut
whose Judgment would have been ~
lulrh aud ~ cruel rs hers but short
time ago had come IN know them.
their Kind heart and their rrndy gen.
rrosily with all their crudruess
had Vet 10 hear one ~ these girls rN.
press a philosophy ~ life rs cold nnd
calculating as my sisters. Ms sister.
who IN her chlldhood had had the nd
vantage VI love and shelter aud dNNhat
Is commonly called refined surround.
lngS, aud good education
She did not seem tu be- able tn uu.
derslund that, although had left my
home and started to earn my own W,
Ink brrausc believed had tu do 49,
! stlll might love my pRrruts aud my
home ties, aud might ycnm Ion them
The thought NJ my mother ~u like
Marion In looks but So much finer aud
Swcttrr brought the tears To my eyes.
You have not told me yet whut
mother and father are doing Marion
Aud n they are we'll reminded her
on they're well enough answered
Marion Father got few hundred
dollars together Rud guve them tu
mother so she could travel Tor the
rest ~ the year She said she could
do some visiting, and. anyway. she
didn't mind living more rheapy In
other towns where people didn't know
her as well ns they did 1T home She
spoke " going to Europe Tor while
She could take slow steamer, aud
live quite cheaply somewhere In Italy
Fathers ai his club done lmnglur
he ls suffering 10 any great extent
And ~ far as their anguish over you
when you first left home, Is con.
rrrned, you might as well know. first
as last they were more ANNOYED than
anything else You are such level
headed small person, Beth, they fig
ured You could look out for yourself
Tor while; and that probably being
alone aud getting hard up would
teach You good lesson They knew
yuu could always find your way back
lo Marta's, aud they thought they
would Just let yOu work ont your own
salvation Tor n few weeks Nur ~.
member mothers word Tor you2 The
last time ! talked to her she said YOU
always We're und always would hr
stubborn The best thing for her to
do she said was to let you come u
good crupper, and You would be glad
enough 10 come home again
so, my dear little sister your fond
parents are not worrying over you,
make NJ your mind to that And
don't worry about them had IN
laugh at father When he heard YOU
had gone, he looked exceedingly tragic
FOR a few minutes and calculated
'Nhnn have ever done that nv chill
dren should treat me Ike thlsT |. be-
Ing hard.heartod member NJ the
family could not help lnQulrlng what
he had ever done that they should
not' lie didn't answer me, aud moth
or said Hush. Marion
My sister paused FOR moment and
Tor brief instant saw In her ewes
n puzzled look
Beth she said, did II ever strike
you that that hush business has been
the bnne Of our family Whenever
anything happened we did not like Ia
face or dare TO face, we always turned
away our heads and said Hush Ia
each other And when we could mol
say Hush any longer we turned