Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-06

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rible audience numbered more thar
y million readers. scattered all owe,
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q ~ che got scared because she thought
1t she was not up to It. She said. for
4 ~ thing. she did not know her audi
co. could not visualize them,
n NV her when she was in the depths
t&oR the work and seemed nbout To rive
y up. then / heard thnt she had rons
:; - on a long trip-I supposed for a
fBt--and Just the other day l met her
\ kems again and in high spirits and keen
\ ' ,vVScm oslnS b.r vbor. sb. had
4 heen she laughed and said:
oeen up ana DOWN the land
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6reiit room
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The Woman at the Gate in Kansas
<~~r VI,
WAS raining ana the roads were
= sodden with wet and the bare
ter. In that fat country nothing seems
TO run on. AS far as the eye could
reach great bare farms and here and
there low house and some inadequate
iookinE outbuilding, with few trees,
reached BY n long. muddy lane from
the rutted high road. In the fields cat.
% and alf-demolished hayricks and
mere and there circle where last year $
chan had been burned.
Every no often the train would rum
bic through smallish town with an
open space round the station. a grain
r1ores ono -stor;od r,uidv streots u;tt
-ocden bonsos sc,ttoroi oionr tho,n
rrS then without rarn,rn ~ har.
fields and farms again
HI ssw tbs woman turn into tho limo
n one farm from tho muddy highway
ana Then n,use md focc rho train
vstcbin1 a. NO wo swent hv Hor arms
wsra III, of bundIou ne vorious .orta
ana sizes. awkwnrdlv held md sj,nninv
from her as sbo stood She Was ip
black and her skirt must have been
bOthersome for that wet. slipnerv walk
Il was longer than modern skirts. n
best skirt a dozen wears or SO AGO, I
could NOT see her foce. but her bodv
iexnrcssed n sort of interest in our nros
ress and vet indiffercnce to ourselves
Inokinp mast her nm the long lane To
her farmhouse one could see that sb,
haA nIentv of work IN On home m. and
doubtless some comfort.
d WWhat struck Won afterward wns
that she had held her bundles as
thoush their purchase had meant some
thins of an event as though nerhons her
eettine off to the town and getting back
had meant something of n Conquest and
= hVr deliberate facing about TO watch the
train had had in II something. TOO. Of
bravado. az though she had said.
az don't want TO 20 where Won are
soine. / do not want what Won have
staring at you for. I'm only wonder
inR III. when any of Won strike ST.
10 tonight, you might possibly see Jen-
ME-. my daughter. who's gone there to
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