The Washington times., 1919-03-26

busy with her breakfast. Inc cat
beside her chair purred loudly and
rose at intervals on its hind legs
to twitch her dress: and Ruhsnnah
occasionally bestowed aims and
conversation upon it.
Rue" said her mother, you
should try to do better with your
algebra this week"
Yes do. really mean 10.
Have you had aRy- more bad-conr
duct marks"
Her father lifted his mild. dreamy
eyes Of an. invalid. Her mother
asked: -t
What for:c"
For wasting my time in study
hour" said the girl truthfully.
Were you drawing% ".
Yes, mother" .-.. .-'-r
Rue. Again. why do you per-
sist in drawing pictures in your
copy books when you have N
hours lesson in drawing every
week? Besides. you may draw pic
lures at home whenever you wish"
II don't exactly know why" re-
piled the girl slowly. 1T just hap
pens before i notice what L am
doing, OF course" she
explained. Il do recollect that |
Oughtn't TO be drawing in stufY
hour. But that's after I've begun,
and then il seems a pity. not TO
finish"
Her mother looked across the
table at her husband: .--
Speak to her seriously, WilbOur."
Looks At His Daughter.
The Reverend Mr.. Carew looked
solemnly at his Iong-legged and
rapidly growing daughter. whose
gray eyes GaZed back into her
fathers sallow visage:
Rue" he said in his ColOrIess
voice, try to get all YOU can out Of
your school. haven't sufficic IT
means to educate you in drawing
and in similar accomplishments. 80
get all you can out OF your school.
Because. some day. YOU will have
10 help yourself, and perhaps help
US little"
He bent his head with a detached
air and sat gazing mildly at va
cancy-already. perhaps. forgetting
what the conversation was about.
Mother"
What. Rue?"
What am l going 10 do to earn
my livinE:"
+ Il don't know"
Do you mean must gq into the
mill like every body else -
There are other things Girls
work at many things in these DAYS"
What kind OF things"
They may learn to keep ac-
counts, help in shops"
IF father could afford II. couldn't
learn TO do something more in
terestinG: What do girls work ~
whose fathers can afford to let them
learn how TO work.
They may become teachers. Iearr:
stenography and typewritinE. they
can. OF course, become dressmak-
crs: they can nurse"
Mother"
Yes"
Gould I choose the business of
drawing pictures? ] know how"
Dear, / don't believe it is pracIi-
cal to"
Couldn't draw pictur.s for
books and magazines? Everybody
says ! draw very nicely. You say
so. too. Couldn't | earn enough
money TO live on and to take care
Of you and father?".
Wilbour Carew looked up from
his reverie:
To learn to draw correctly and
with taste" he said in his gentle.
pedantic- voice. requires a special
training which we cannot afford to
give you. Ruhannah"
Asks About Legacy.
Must | wait till I'm twenty-five
before I can have my. money" she
asked for the hundrcdth time. 81
90 SO need IL TO educate myself
Why did grandma do such "A thing.
mother"
Your grandmother never SUP
posed YOU would need the money
until YOU we're u grown woman.
dear Your father ana ! were youn:
vigorous. full of energy. your
fathers income was ample for US
Then"
Have L got 10 marry a man be-
fore can got enough money To take
lessons IN drawing With
Her mothers drawn smile was
very genuine. When a child asks
such questions no mother, finds II
easy TO smile.
IF you marry. dear il is not like
~ you marry IN OrdeT.tO take les
sons n drawing. Twenty-Five is
not OFT II you still desire to study
art you will be able TO do so"
Twenty five" repeated Rue.
aghast IN be an old woman.
Many begin their Iife's wori.
Al an older age
Mother, I'd rather marry some
body and begin to study art. oh.
don't YOU think that even now
could support myself by making
pictures Tor ma gaZincs? Don't YOU.
mother dear"
Rue. as your father explained. a
. special cours" "f instruction is
necessary before one ~an become
an artist"
But do draw very nicely"
She slipped from her chair. ran 10
the old secretary where the accumu-
lated masterpieces OF her brief
career were treasured. and brought
them for her parents inspection,
as she had brought them MANY
times before.
Mother Views Drawings,
Her father looked at them list
IessIy; he did not understand such
things. Her mother took them one
by one from Ruhannah's eager
hands and examined these grImy
records Of her daughters child
hood.
There were drawings Of every
i.