The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-22

Albany, December 21.-(Special )- Morgan county's hogs are getting in the super porler class. Marion Rus sell and J. T. Robinson, farmers who reside near here, killed six hogs this week, the total poundage of the half dozen reaching 2,461 pounds.
  half of it off my hands. otherwise could not keep it."
 You have got me and am so glad found you." I said gratefully.
 T should think you would be, es- pecially as l had to give those rob bers down to the Alex five dollars for that room"
 Why, I don't think that is so bad. In Chicago l paid ten dollars for a room and bath for about the same amount of time"
 could not help contrasting Ria's and Mrs. Watkins methods as the Chicago episode came to my mind.
 After tonight one of us will buy the food ore week and one the next and we will divide the rent and the other things. Does that suit you7"
 Tt more than suits me. But then, Ria, you didn't answer me. Are all the women in the movies as good to each other as you have been to me?'
 Yes. if they want something from them"
 Are you trying to be cynical, Ria7'
 No. l am just human and truth ful. I have been very anxious to have some one--a decent kind of girl-to take half of this expense of the apartment off my hands and, all though I had no notion of asking you to be the girl when I sat down he hSida talkad thought we might hit 1t off As for being good to you, 1t is case of fifty fifty"
 T have been taught that that Is the way a man would talk to another man." I answered.
 Aren't girls human? After you have been earning your own living for awhile you will know that the souls of the sexes are not very diff ferent, no matter what the story books say.
 "A girl will criticse your clothes. she will say nasty. catty things about you if she thinks 1t will do her any good toward getting part, but most of us, my dear. will help the other when she is down and out
 The girl who Is on her own is like the man In business. He, you know, separates his human qualities from his business ones. In business, ey- eryone is only a cog In the machinery. He doesn't regard you as a human being at all. He can be as charming, as charitable as sympathetic and as kind as possible outside of his of flee, but in business hours he loses all human qualities except those of the fighter who acts as though every ones hand was against him and whose hand is against everyone"
 I listened to Ria in surprise. She had dropped all her slang and with 1t had also gone the sharp gamin look from her face.
 I really was curious about her. but she told nothing about herself, and did not feel privileged to ask, and beside I was too sleepy.
 You are going to sleep in the side board, Virgie," smiled Ria after we had washed the dishes. We will leave your unpacking until tomor- row"
 I had wondered where would sleep, never having heard of the Cal ifornian "built-in- features" in my back-woodsy old southern town.
 Sleeping in the sideboard was a novel idea, but when Ria pulled out bed from what looked to be buff fet I could not help remembering that couplet from Gilbert and SuIli- vans Patience:
 Things are not always what they
 seem
 Skim milk masquerades as cream"
 But this Aladdin-like turning Of the dining room into a sleeping apartment with It's turning of one thing into something very different was characteristic of the people. l found friends where I least expected them and was hurt and disappointed by those I had considered tried and true" The people, too, had "built-tn features"
 Well today is another day, Vir- gle" came from the only other room in the apartment where Ria was sleeping In bed drawn from behind what had appeared to me to be bookcase the night before.
 That I found was RIa's litany and prayer. She said 1t every morning when arising and I came to under stand that with its repetition each morning she dismissed the previous day completely from her mind. That was finished business with Ria.
 Rias friends had to make good each day to keep her friendship. In her philosophy of life each morning was literally another day unrelated to the past.
 A little time afterward, when we had become better acquainted, told her the impression she had given me each morning and she said: Every woman in this world-at least every one of the girls that I know-has to make some sort of a working sched- ule for herself Mine was built up from hard work. disappointment. mis- cry and tears. I learned that the only way I could live was to treat each day as something new and to say to myself If this day brings me sorrow, it will last twenty-four hours. If 1t brings me joy, I shall drink deep for tomorrow it might be lost to me forever.
 And if anyone should step up on the street and ask you, deare. you can tell them that's a darn good lead to follow" finished Ria dropping into her Hollywoodese. : Tomorrow-Gioria and Strange Man.