Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-17
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VANGIE TALKS TO
MOTHER.

home.
Look at other women They step cut
and are seen
BY their neighbors, and are talked /
about, and /
Made fuss over. You're dying in
your tracks.
Your excuse that you can't neglect
your home
TO take up social activities doesn't
hold good.
know how the others go about 1t, and
so do you.
They just refuse to let home worries
interfere
With their goings and comings as
YOU do.
Why, ] heard somebody say the other
day that you
We're getting old before your time. IT
almost broke
My heart. for YOU are not old, nom.
First
Thing l know they will be saying that
am ancient
And they will be heading me for the
discard.
Wouldn't that De a terrible tragedy
You and / both old and not invited
around in
The circles where we belong? Nom.
it has
Happened to others, and we must be
careful.
Yes. I suppose I ought TO help you
more than I do,
But you surely know that it is impos-
sibie for me to
/ Do so, much as | would love 10. /
dare say there isn't
A buster girl in the whole city than
| am.
Perhaps l could cut out a few Of my
clubs, but YOU know
I What the result would be. 7 would be
In disgrace Oh, the
/ Things they say about one when one
gives up
! Membership in one of those affairs.
They say the meanest
Things. Poor Jessie, you remember,
hat she was beside herself
For months after she quit the BTic-a-
! Brac club because
+, OF the things she heard that the other
girls said about her.
One story was that the family had met
with money reverses
And that she had to go to work.
| Another was that
She was soliciting dressmaker and
fancy sewing jobs
Among the old friends Of her family.
And positively. nom.
There wasn't an iota of truth to the
/ report. Why, her father
Has two autos and they keep two
maids, or they did, but
Now they have only one You know
it's so hard to keep
Help in war times, when girl can
go out and put on overalls ant
take
A job in a factory and earn as much
in one day as she
Can in a week shaving liz a kitchen
OF course the labor isn't
AS dignifed but that doesn't make
any difference to young
Woman who has her own way tt
make in the world.
d I have often wondered, MON, wha
would have happened to me
If I mad been born poor. Well, III
tell
! You never would have become :
kitchen mechanic That's sure
, would have gone west, I would. ans
have taken up land
, Claim. and would have taken bull
> dog with me and stuck it out
On the farm until II became mine
and then | would have sold it
, And used the money to start in tn
automobile business.
81 Look how easy that fellow who Eol'
father his last ear
Closed the deal He doesn't know a
r much as [ do, Maybe he
o. Knows more about car than I, bu
ne can't talk interesting
, Like | can Nobody knows anything
/. about an automobile
/ Only those that sell them, anyway
T And sometimes they know
Too much. Father said that the las
salesman said things about
The car he bought from him tina
= weren't true. But / wouldn
Lie You always told me, MON, tn
y only place that the lie was
Useful was in removing dirt. / di
: not mean
: That to be a joke Neither did yot
nom. We are. not discussing
Joking matters. We have serious bus
mess before US.
e I think father is getting to b
n grouchy. That's the reason yo
r Are not getting about as you have i
|, former seasons.
u He makes me tired talking about tn
e high cost of everything.
: If he didn't expect to do his part wha
did he ever marry you for?
Look at all OF the other men tht
y were just crazy to make you
e Their wife You have admitted
n yourself / heard you tell
is Father so one night when you didn
e think ! was
+ Listening. | was glad TO hear yo
tell him SO. Men, you know,
Nom, have habit of growing sci
r opinionated. They imagine W
Ia Women should be contented whe
y they provide us a comfortab
home.
e Why, home in this age Of excitemel
is only a place to sleep and
Receive ones friends. You've got
get out to meet the world.
y The world isn't going to come to u
JS.f,