The Nevada County picayune., 1920-06-24

and start home with r? Of ccutse, you wouldn't. You would rur away from him and his vicinity as fast as your legs would carry you.
 "In all this talk about heredity, we forget We don't have to take all of the lighted bombs heredity wants to pass on to us. Of course, we may not like to exert ourselves to get away from the danger zone. It may seem a lot easier to stay where we are. and trust to luck that the fuse may burn out before the bomb explodes. Then it Is our own fault-no ones else if we are blown up with the rest of the landscape when the explosion comes.
 That's a good deal the situation with you. Lucy. You knew what happened to your mother. You knew the fate of your father, and you knew that the same things would happen to you-if you stayed where you were, and ac- cepted the heritage they had left you. And. in spite of knowing, you didn't bother to try to get away. You saw the red lights way ing ahead of you, and coming nearer, but you didn't have the energy and courage to jump to one side-and let the danger thunder past you. And because you didn't. you say you were chained. or course, you were chained but you let yourself be chained In the first place. and in the second place you didn't make any effort to break away from the chains. There isn't anything in all this talk about heredity that we can't get away from-if we want to, and go about it the right way
 'I never thought about it In juss that way before" said Lucy slowly. I left her, after giving her some books and magazines, and promis- ing to come again the latter part of the week I made half a dozen visits to her before l thought 1t was time to announce my good news to her-that through the in- fuence of the owner of the de- partment store. where she had been arrested, she was to be parolled in my care. and given chance for a new life.
 don't know when I have had problem that interested me more. Lucy's father, found after a while, when she had grown more con, fidential. had been a college gradu- ate. and the son of wealthy family, who had gone to the gutter through drink. and her mother was also a well educated woman, whose vice had been drugs, leading into crime. Lucy, the outcast. the re. form school graduate, the young woman with a police record. and the heritage of generation of vice. had yet the makings of wonder ful life in her-if she could be made to see 1t, for 1t was a case where she would have to help her. self or any other help would be thrown away.
 We sent her for six montas to a farm. in the care of woman, who had given her life to the treatment of just such cases as hers, and who saw her started on her neglected education. And then We entered her la business school for the training Of stenogcaphers, where she still is. [ don't know what her sequel viii be. bGt do know that year has worked a transforma- tion almost marvellous in the girl that stared back at me in the little whNe.washed cell She has set her self 2 hard fight, but somehow I believe she will win 1t and will prove again that Blood will Tell.
 And this doesn't mean the blood of a past Seneration-hCt our own blood. Life is what we make it not what somebody else tries to