South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-11-11
The Hope of the
World
81 WINIFREp BLACK

By WlNlFRED BLACK
The paper with your story IN q
Is under my cake that feu IN the
middle and nearly slid of. when
put the icing on. I wanted 70 make
IL just once more-the white icing,
YOU know-to see If ! really couldn't.
or 10 see II Fate still kept my hand
out for spite. I think It is still
against me IN that line.
So some day. another year per
haps. after I've finished school, III
get out OF cake-iclngs. dish washing.
busting and get into something
don't despise quite so much
shouldn't, / know, but when one has
done Il so long. one doesn't like f..
I hope I viii some day again. II
there's ever a reason 1 should.
I haven't any beaux. never Ihave
had-proba ably never viii have. I've
had 10 grow up TOO soon. I'm too
practical. I don't do the nonsensi-
cal. silly little things that girls do
who are always the center OF a
crowd. I've never had fudge par
ties or ruffied dimiJy or a mother
20 object 20 the length
when she died. I wasn't four yet
she wouldn't have been cross and
unyielding and object TO everything
like so many mothers. I'm sure she
would have seen her daughters side
Of the question and would have
weighed It against her own, letting
the mature judgment Of motherhood
balance the scales
LONESOME GIRL
Tired OF Drudgery2
HERE, now-there's your let
ter. IN plain print. little Sister
not all OF II, but the part
that seemed most interesting TO
other girls-like yourself
Never had any beaux? Dear me,
what a tragedy! And you're 10 years
years Old-just think OF It-how an
Client OF days you are!
And you are too practical. are
you, bless your heart. That's just
why everybody likes you. and know
they do. That's just why you're the
very center and the hope and the
JOY OF the house - and you don't
know q think about it. You're So
you think so little OF yourself that
you don't realize that p girl like you
is like a breeze straight from the
ocean. sweeping into a close. fetid
tenement-Cr a shut-up room where
one lies 81 and out of tune with all
the world. Why, you're the hope
Of the country. the faith OF the
world-you darling. you. you AMI
your cake and its icing and all the
little things you do so well there at
home!
Tired Of drudgery? Whisper -
the greatest actress you may have
seen gets tired of acting-and the
most celebrated writer gets tired OF
writing. I suppose even the great
singers get tired Of singing.
That's what life Is. my dear-get-
ting tired and then getting rested
again-getting thirsty and getting a
drink-being sleepy and going 10
sleep-getting. hungry and enjoying
your food-being lonely and learning
to appreciate good company.
Life sounds so glittering and
fascinating TO you, doesn't il, there
in your quiet home. and If you could
only look into the mind-let's say
of the great singer as she leaves
the theater, you'd fini her thinking.
not of the flowers that crowd her
dressing-room, not OF the diamonds
her maid Is carrying. but OF her little
boy, maybe, and how he passed his
examinations, or her frat, old
mother. and whether the new diet
IS going to agree with her.
The famous author do you
suppose worries him? The way his
shoe hurts over the instep. or what's
the matter with his wife when she
doesn't laugh at his jokes?
We're all so much alike, my dear,
all so very much alike
Go on with your cake and your
frosting and your busting and your
hone-making. The world needs
you and girls ike you as Il never
needed them before, and in the
meantime, why don't you write
few stories yourself-all about just
such a girl as you are
You're the kind we want to hear
about. Tell US some more. Write
ii in your own way-straight from
your warm. eager heart and some
one will De sure TO publish Il, and
then, please-won't you send me a
copy?
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