The diamond drill., 1918-03-23

SMALL TOWN AND BIG CITY


them all II the young girls who leave
their safe homes in small towns 10
see the big city and taste the especial
brand OF happiness that is supposed
TO be found there came quickly to the
sensible conclusions of little Margar-
ct spicer. Margaret, l6, ran away
from Marion, Ohio, to Chicago and
after a short experience OF the Windy
CITY announces her willingness TO re-
tnrn contented and disillusioned, p
her small town home.
There Is not much difference be
tween Marion and Chicago she says
.The people here tChicago) are liz
tie dirtier in their dress and don't
look quite as healthy"
or course, the natural temptation
is 10 say something not quite compli-
mentary about Chicago and to point
out that Margaret showed poor juds-
ment in her selection Of city for her
experiment Why, for instance, did
she not come to Detroit? Here she
| could have discovered much that Mar
ion, Ohio, never boasted-raids, mold
ups, robberies and several other ad-
yantages that do, despite Margarets
dictum, make vast difference be-
tween the small town and the big city
But for her purposes, and for the
purposes of the majority OF girls who
iorney to the big city in quest OF ad-
venture and excitement, Margaret is
right. With the quick disappearance
OF the novelty OF her new surround
ings, the average girl finds even less
that is satisfying in the big city than
in the small town from which she
comes. The pity of 1t is that, by the
time she is In a position to know this
she is unwilling to acknowledge 1t ol
unable to retrace the fateful step she
has taken.
A big city offers to girl chiefly
3 terrible sense of loneliness. She sooi
= discovers the truth of the apparen
E paradox that the more people there ar
Q in a community the fewer you are ap
e to know personally. With her ex
4 tremely limited income. the more am
n bilious pleasures OF the big city ar
f denied to her. That ugly habit {
comparison robs such diversions a
are within her reach OF the pleasur
A they formerly gave her in such grea
i measure back home" Quickly he
10 life becomes one OF constant regr'
! and envy, II nothing worse, and
nine cases out OF ten she looks bac
+ upon the simple, and perhaps slight
boring and aimless, routine life in Ia
M Marion, Ohio" as the happiest pc
- iod OF her Detroit Free Press.
IL ~ Vt VI
es At last we can meet our friend
ce the Iron River -Stambaugh Report
n ON common level as far as time
concerned, for the Federal governme
IL has taken up the question and
IN March 81 central standard tin
OF which is the legal time for Michig
MT will be showed ahead one hour y
OF will be able to visit at Iron Riy
We without having TO carry two watcf
ny ana when we go there we won't ha
las 10 worry about what time the diff
he ent hotels serve the different mea
&C. It's big relief to know that we
in all on a>ieyel again and well C
,rk cede that a medal should be strt
or OF by congress for Pat oBrien Q
. George Newett, pioneer missionar
)rk OF the clocks ahead movement
md Michigan.
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TUG An order Of the War Departm
'le says, "All persons in the milit
10" service are forbidden to act as =
u'a correspondents for or contributors
US any newspaper, magazine, or OF
aee publication, or to receive any paym
lleS or reward whatever from any s
liiS publication for any letter or item
'ay' news written or furnished by tn
toio whether the article in question is !
W.T. direct to the paper or periodical,
.ie consists Of private correspond
'hs which the writer permits to be !
- lished."
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oar- In a mention Of our charter elec
Tho Iron Ore last week stated that
no boundaries OF this city have been
n,t. tended by the charter adoption.
u not the case, much as we would
80, Il. The boundaries OF the city rer
..a the same as before. The movemel
-, enlarge the boundaries fell by the '