El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-20
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New York Woman Gives Ell
Paso Strong Praise in
Rather Unique Way.

hdGH6r Unique way.
FL Paso got some advertising re.
Gently in the New York Evening Mai
that, while somewhat more roseat'
than even George Clements would
try to put over in his most aggressive
press-agenting will doubtless attract
considerable attention westward.
Recently Miss Zoe Beckley. of the
staff of the Mail. was here picking VI
things to write back home about. and
her conclusion, during her short visit
here. was that FL Paso is the greatest
place in the world for women who
must work Here is what she sent
/ back home:
/ Co went. young womani Or south
west. don't care what your ambi-
/ ton is; whether to escape the lone
illness of the hall bedroom and the
| self-engrossed remoteness of the
/ eastern manageable man. or to ad-
vance in your wage earning Occupa-
ton. If you would avoid the thousand
/ tyrannies Of the woman who is eco
nOmically helpless, come west, lii
girl come westi Or, rather south
west.
Come out here where the desert
wind is a bit hard on the complexion.
but where a thirty dollar-a-week
salary as stenographer allows margin
for the masseuse. Come out to where
the cost of living is higher than the
Woodwork tower. but the wage of the
telephone girl climbs as nimbly as
the price OF shoes. Where there's work
for everybody, from dishwashing at
SIS week to raising squads at $4,000
a year
And il you know some girl of that
almost obsolete species that does not
care to work, send her out, too. She
can marry some dam engineer (NO,
Gladys, I am not swearing; they have
the biggest dam in the world out here.
just completed at Elephant Butte)
making a hundred a week, or some
diffident young cattle king with half
million in his jeans, or some hotel
man who takes in S11O0 any busy
afternoon at his tea dansant-"
A beauteous young woman named
Florence Shropshire invited me
motoring yesterday. Mrs Shropshire
was born in Shreveport La, but the
sOmnolent southern sunshine appears
to have frightened her personality
without devitalizing her ambitions
High Priced Squads Inspire
For some years she was secretary
to a man Of many interests. She kept
an ear to the ground. saved all she
could from her salary and finally
bought some oil stock
But while the oil stock fabricated
the hinges OF her pocketbOok, much
Of the proceeds went to defray doc
tors bills. for Overwork brought on
illness and they told her TO pack Up
and HE to some dry, warm climate
or prepare for the worst. She chose
FL Paso.
Mrs. Shropshire thought FL Paso
looked interesting on the map. And il
does. situated as il is in that acute
western projection Of Texas which
separates Old Mexico from New. It
is a place where a great deal might
and dOes-happen- The first thing
that happened to Florence Shropshire
was that she got we'll One day she
went to buy some squad to serve at
luncheon party. No squads at the
market; none nearer than a ranch
upon the outskirts Of town. Thither
our lady motosed- and duly the squads
were bought But the price,
IF squads bring IS cents pound"
sOliloquized Mrs Florence. and can
only be had at this one place, 1 think
I'd better start squad farm myself. I
I'll read up on squads and buy a !
couple Of acres right of with my oil
stock money"
That's how some people do things
So yesterday she mOtored me out to I
her ranch" driving the big car her
self with an ease and confidence that /
seem born in certain type OF slim. !
executive, energetic little humans. I
who wear beautiful clothes and do
successful things as naturally as
other people look dowdy and flivver. |
Rio Much Less Grande.
We skirted the rim OF the puny Rio I
Grande. which I IN my eastern igno- /
rance had supposed mighty stream
May / digress from squads long
enough to prove that l am not alone /
graphic aspect OF this prodigious /
state2 The editor OF a prominent New /
York newspaper recently wired the 1
editor Of an FL PasO newspaper re- /
garding a fugitive supposed to be 4
hiding at the Mexican border Please I
have all ships on your waterfront 4
searched was the message And the /
FL PasO editor nearly died laughing.
True, the Rio Grande used not to /
look so like a trickle from a faulty /
drinking fountain. But when the I
dam at Elephant Butte. /
billion gallons for irrigation purposes, /
the Rio became less Grande. In its
wettest days, however. it never
boosted craft big enough to hide a (
fugitive lapdog.
The unhappy FL Paso editor is al
ways being pestered, too, with east 1
erners who want to know something
that is going on in Dallas or Fort
" ORTIZ They think it's just around /
the corner OF down the road a piece, 4
whereas in Texas nothing is ever
nearer than % hours, more or less.
FL Paso is the largest city in a !
district having radius Of 1900 miles. 4
IL is the distributing center of a I
greater area than the New England 1
sta ties. with New York New Jersey
and Pennsylvania thrown in for good 4
measure,
MexIeaRs Took Even Pickles.
But back to the squads,
The motor hummed along the river
edge past a giant smelter where 4
hardy miners, come with all sorts of 1
ores from all sorts of places TO be /
refined by Mexican wOrkmen whose /
adobe nuts fringe the bank.
Across the river. dotted among /
scraggy rocks on the slOping mesa /
are fragmentary shelters from behind /
which Mexican snipers have taken 1
many a pot shot at Americans and 1
American property.
We sped through the attractive I
residence district Of FL Paso. past Fort
Bliss. now nearly dismantled OF its /
thousands Of tents which marked the I
recent Mexican invasion. but a per-
army post and always active I
We rounded curves on two wheels,
5ktrted grim, outstanding mountains /
those arid, treeless mountains of the I
desert country which look within /
actual touch, yet are miles away; 1
sailed along the finely paved road 1
threading an irrigated valley where /
peaches, pears, grapes. dates, tigs, I
ilfalta, lettuce and cantaloupes grow /
and almost everything else except /
citrus fruits.