South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-07-20
BY MARGERY REX.

4 NEW YORK. July 19.-WhHe man
goes out 20 conquer worlds. wom-
an must wait-and- watch-and- weep
and incidentally wash-and-irou and
sweep-and-scw that man may come
home 20 qulet and order. Thus ne
VIII. while amassiug dollars. have in
mis- home someone 90 save his cur
rency plan for his comfort and cater
10 his whims
Wives and mothers are famous
Toy that sort Of service. 90 say moth
ing OF grandmothers, maiden auuts
and sisters
90 course. when 17-year-old Ray
moud Weir OF Paterson. y. j.. and
more recently Of New York city. left
home 10 support himself i'm this wild
mad village of ours the SIS a week
he began 10 earn sounded like real
money
Raymond has today n royal pur-
pie, his first Tay envelope with
l1vEesse. The other night he fell off
\lrs- Andrew Carncgie's second-story
window ledge while trying 90 enter
and rob-so Raymond avers-her
Ninctieth so. villa He now rests bon
She Tombs
Learns some Cruel Facts
Between the moment Ray re-
ceived his first pay envelope with
larEesse of SIC and the instant of
crawling into the back ward of the
philanthropist' window. Raymond
learned bitter, hard. cruel facts
about life. lie acquired more phil
usophy than funds
The downy bloom OF youth is on
l,aymond's cheeks. His hair is reg
ular carrot color and his pale face
his health is not goods powder
ed with green-gold freckles
Money seemed too far away when
J was nome said Raymond, sadly.
My mother manages somehow.
When my father died an he left us
was "A house Sly mother rents that
and she lives I'm West Paterson. and
~ two sisters work I'm the silk mills.
Tscy &c, along an right
II learned 10 bc a typist. but got
a stcnoErdphcr job over there. and
knew 10 was too much for m, I5
lIuG- AREN'T rood -
last year I was n a cure farmon a
farm. L got "a lot better. but didn't
nave enough experience for the job
j had. ] knew + would lose it and
the folks would Dee appointed.
So l quit They thought was lazy.
guess SO 1 came TO New York.
Not Much Money Left.
II got week. ] started look
ing for "A place TO board. I took the
first place I looked at. Ten dollars a
week. IL was Then I had to ray
about 81 a week for laundry-more
when 7 sent in an my clothes
bought stuff and fixed my own
lunches 10 take 20 work.
Somehow. ] didn't have much
money left. got kinda discour-
aged. 10 seemed awful not 20 have
anything and work an the time.
Then would think about my
mother and sisters. They work, too
and what do they have Then / was
made 10 take a physical eNamina-
ton. and didn't pass.
That night / sat long time un-
der the windows I'm that house ]
thought about the Job ! lost [ didn't
know whose home 10 was. ] got I'm
through a yard I'm Madison avenue.
There is a stOOp on the side of Car
negie's house. and / climbed up.
fcll and that was the last thing I re-
member ! don't know exactly why
tried TO get in. ] don't know what
would have done if the windows
hadn't been locked"
Raymond talked briskly and in a
manner sufficiently straightforward
and DC is easy 20 see why a sick boy
might sink under conditions that
might staEEer many husky men
with high costs today
In Serious Plight
A sound mind I'm a sound body is
true saving and Raymond car
hardly grasp the seriousness Of ms
position today.
Seventeen years old and i'm tho
Tombs under $500 balm health
that would not permit him 10 work
even III De got a job at good pay.
"I'd like 10 get out and go home
Ny mother was here Co see me. and
she would be glad 90 have me back
would work hard for her"
Raymond's pale face has the trans
parcncy Of delicate health. and his
general look is too frail for a boy of
seventeen, but ne has the agrees