The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28

Fl Paso, Tex, June T-(Special.)-Go west, young woman Or southwest. l don't care what your ambition is; whether to escape the loneliness of the hall bedroom and the self-engrossed re- moteness of the eastern marriageable man, or to advance in your wage earning occupation. If you would avoid the thousand tyrannies of the woman who Is economically helpless, come west, III girl. come westl Or. rather. southwest.
 Come out here where the desert wind is bit hard on the complexion, but where a $30-a-week salary as stenogra- pher allows margin for the masseuse Come out to where the cost of living is higher than the Woolworth tower, but the wage of the telephone girl climbs as nimbly as the price of shoes. Where there's work for everybody. from dish washing at SIS week to raising squabs at $4000 a year.
 And if 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, l am not swearing; they have the biggest dam in the world out here, just com pleted at Elephant Butte) making s10o week, or some diffident young cattle king with half million in his jeans, or some hotel man who takes in SLIGO any busy afternoon at his "tea dansant."
 A beauteous young woman named Florence Shropshire invited me motor ing yesterday. Mrs. Shropshire was born in Shreveport La,, but the somnolent inf have frightened her personality without de- vitalizing her ambitions
 HIGH-PRICE 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 doctors bills, for overwork brought on illness, and they told her to pack up and hie to some dry, warm climate or prepare for the worst. She chose Dl Paso.
 Mrs. Shropshire thought Fl Paso looked interesting on the map. And it does, situated as 1t 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 happens 10 flOrence Shropshire was that she got well. One day she went to buy some squab to serve at luncheon party. No squabs at the market; none nearer than a ranch upon the outskirts of town. Thither our lady motored and duly the squabs were bought. But the price!
 '1f squabs bring 35 cents pound" so liloquized Mrs. Florence, and can only be had at this one place, I~think I'd bet ter start squab farm myself. I'll read up on squabs and buy couple of acres right off with my oil stock money"
 That's how some people do things.
 So yesterday she motored me out to her ranch" driving the big car herself with an ease and confidence that seem born in a certain type of slim, executive energetic little humans who wear beauti- ful 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 Grande, which I. in my eastern ignor- ance had supposed a mighty stream
 May I digress from squabs long enough to prove that I am not alone in my un- familiarity with the geographic aspect of this prodgious state? The editor of a prominent New Yorok newspaper re- gently wired the editor of an Fl Paso newspaper regarding fugitive supposed to be hiding at the Mexican border: