The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-01-22
I Life
The simple lass.
The broken working man.
When life entered the door.
Only a gutter b,iin.
The woman who knew no
shame.
- BY w. Alexander Inlay


city in the hope Of earning enoug
money to give her the clothing O
the fashion plate ladies and movi
queens. Perhaps she came with tn
intent of making herself useful il
the world.
She got a job. 1t was work. if tn
constitutes a job? She shaved Lin
hours day behind a counter or ru1
slbly she stacked matches in b.. Ct
no matter she got the job.
And the salary, magnifcent-slO t.;
week The clerks IL Perkins stor.
back home only got IS but then shs
was ignorant as yet you see.
So she drifted along until one fine
night she found herself hanging ovei
the railing of the river bridge, peck
etbook empty, hungry-contempl
q leap from the bridge-or worse.
Then there is the working man.
He knows no trade for he grew
up in untrammeIed America
where one is permitted to do as
he pleases. An induIgent father
had not insisted on him learning
anything useful. His mother up.
held him in idIeness.
Possibly the father went
broke. Possibly he never had
anything. At least we find our
hero at forty, discouraged, know.
ing no trade, on the bum.
A bad season strikes his sec.
ton Of the country. tie has no
money, no friends. Then we find
him-where?
Riding the rods to better
land, in Jail and out, knight o:
the cinder trail.
The poor man comes one drea. J
night to cold home. He is
out of work. He knows no friends.
His children are huddled around a
stove in which the last embers az
dying. A small girl of four w eoJ
Tor food.
A mother in the next room-tl.e -
are two rooms-iies in a bed OF o, l
blankets and ragged great coats. She
Is moaning in pain.
A little life is to come into tie
world before many hours have faa.s.
is 4
ons. There is no fire, no light.
In despair the man goes into tho
night stumbling against the co,a
wind seeking assistance in his trou.
Die.
There is gutter bum who han
no knowledge Of how loathsome
he really is. Drunken, abused,
Eetpdvand cuffsd no lodges all
hlman beinss.
Like a trcunced dog he avoids
people yet he must seek thef;.
At last he decides that he Is
down and out. He goes down tn.
street with longing in his hears.
He longs to tell some one how
ne despises self.
He has reached the turning
point. Will some one hold out a
hand7 +
Ha! ha! he laughs. He knows
the world.
Then there is the woman without
hame. Christ had compassion on
er kind but she has come to think
hat no one else had Harry like
he plies her way about the streets
the great city.
Her cheeks are incarnidine. Her
oul is as red as her painted lips.
Ter eyes are as full of guile as the
lisshapen mind.
Unloyed, much caressed, hunted, a
rey upon society she comes to the
lst step down, then she finds god
| her heart. Does anyone else find
So they run through the annals Of
fe. But here is what happened.
The simple girl went to clean
boarding house and after a few
years made good. She bIossomed
into a flower Of pure woman.
hood.
The workingman went to work.
iDg mans hotel. He was given
shelter and clothing with food as
the lowIy Nazarens commanded.
He learned a trade and became
useful. He became producer.
The poor man sent his wife
to maternity home where she
received. good care. His children
were sent food, clothing and
fuel.
The gutter bum was offered a
chance at self rehabilitation. He
made good. He quit drink, got a
Job and was useful.
The harry was sent to a res
cue home and became a woman.
She who was old only in expert
ence again learned the simple
love Of child. She was saved
fof the world. "
Each was saved through the
AVIATION Army and it's organi.
ytions for mankind.