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Little Talks by
Beatrice Fairfax
In Washington, D. C., there is a
woman wise in her generation.
She is Mrs. Alexander E. Williams,
wife of a lieutenant -colonel in the
*|?,'nited States army.She realized as
as girls began to pour into the
National Capital to do war work for
the Government how necessary it
was for them to have real homes.
She planned for them not hall
■bedrooms in which to snatch a few
hours necessary sleep before going
to work again, but genuine hearth
stones. Here around a big 'table
'there would be good meals, with
talk and fun and girlish chatter
about "the department," spring
hats, or the last letter from "back
'home."
All of these things, instead of a
.stool at some wretchhed lunch
counter, unappetizing food, with the
horrors of a solitary dinner and the
V>leak return to the hall bedroom
again.
Out of her own pocket Mrs. Willl
iams financed this scherrte: there
were seven houses in the beginning
—by this time there are probably
more—and now they are all on a
paying basis.
In addition to managing the
houses Mrs. Williams has prevailed
on Washington people who could
spare the room to accept, on a fam
ily footing, about five hundred ad
ditional girls. She accepted no of
fers where the householders would
not agree to accept the war work
ers on this family bdsis.
In every case she secured refer
ences from the home towns, of the
girls, and of the hundreds who se
cured rooms only two were unable
to furnish vouchers of good conduct.
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No more patriotic work could
have been undertaken than that of
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at this time. For the plight of a
girl without a home isthat of a
mariner without a compass.
Not always do parents with
daughters realize the necessity of
this haven for a girl. The home is
too often the place where she eats I
and sleeps, not the place where she
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THAT'b *b>NITH THE DON'T Tou THINK HER WELL- LOOK |, THW A SILLN- T HM <RL
bOCtETY BELLE- , ' FACE LOOK% RATHER. HOW LON4 fSATHINt IN THE HEIGHT OF OF FAbH\ON MEAN? THE f
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sees her friends and talks out her
daily problems.
This Is especially true of the
homes of our less prosperous citi
zens; the struggle to keep things
going is so great that any extra
pound of pressure—in the way of
company—is not to be considered.
The already overworked mother
does not see how she can do any
thing more; the ruinous cost of
everything, the difficulty of receiv
ing strangers in a home where
younger children keep things dis
ordered, too often absorb the moth
er's attention to the exclusion of the
claims of her grown-up daughters'
sacred rights.
The girl young, and full of the
quest of enjoyment, seeks hef so
cial life outside of her home; moth
er and daughter grow apart, even
if there are not more serious con
sequences to this unfortunate ar
rangement.
Girl's Proper Background, Her
Home
No matter how humble, tl
proper background of a girl Is her
home; thre are her people, there
her friends should be welcomed, and
there she should have the best times
her scant leisure will permit.
Fathers and mothers sin more i
deeply against their daughters than
they realize, when through indif- |
ference or ungraciousness to their |
daughters' friends, they drive the i
girl to go somewhere else for her i
little pleasure.
Half the tragedies that overtake j
girls begin with this statement: "I I
began meeting him out. because I I
couldn't see him at home."
This is even true of the girl whose j
daily work and weekly pay envelope !
help to keep the home going. The
mother workls so hard all day long
that the added burden of "fixing up
for company" is the last straw.
She can no longer recall the temp
tations of her own youth, the strug
gle of making both ends meet has
blunted her finer perceptions. She
has forgotten that life calls and
beckons from without, when those
within the home grow forgetful of
the claim of youth.
And som.etimes the mother is not I
at fault, sh'e is willing to accept the |
responsibility of "Mary's beau" or 1
the little group of friends who are '
coming to the "party." It is the
father who is oftener the offender;
father, who after his hard day feels
i that quiet and slippers are his
I right. Any attempt to curtail these
I privileges in favor of company he
| regards as an infringement of his
I constitutional rights of health,
wealth and the pursuit of happi
ness.
I Cannot "Make Things Go."'
i After repeated and melancholy
attempts to "make things go" at
home, and attendant humiliations
and failures, one of two things is
bound to happen. Either the girl
goes outside for her fun. with all
the dangers that that involves, or
she became dispirited and gives
up the attempt to have a normal life
Youth slips away, her chances go
by, >-and there is nothing in store
for her but a lonesome old age.
Parents are to blaim for their
children's unhappiness more often
than they realize. To them their
children never growup; they fail to
i realise these children have inher
| ited the same impulass, aspirations
| and instincts that are the legacy of
j the human race.
To the mother the daughter is
j still thelittle girl in the white
j frock and pigtails, and if it is not
i convenient for daughter to. have in
| her little friends there is no use
j discussing the matter.
Then sometimes comes the fear
ful realization, that daughter Is no
longer the little girl in white, but
a grown woman, who has been fac
ing her life problem away from
home—and the solution has been
too much for her.
If parents would only stand to
gether on this vital issue, if father
must sit in slippers, there must be
some nook or cranny in the flat
where he can enjoy the privilege
undisturbed.
And mother had better let some
thing about the house go, while
she helps to make the lemonade and
sandwiches and then puts on her
best dress to make the company
feel welcome.
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A SERIAL OF YOUTH AND ROMANCE
By VIRGINIA VAN DE WATER
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CHAPTER XLIX
(Copyright, 1918, by Star Co.)
"Well?"
Dora Livingstone looked at Milton
Van Saun defiantly. "What is it that
you want to say to me?"
The man did not speak at once, but
stood looking down into the fire, his
brows knit.
"You are not very talkative now
that we are alone," his companion
challengea. "What's the matter?
Does my august presence seal your
lips?"
He turned towards her impatient
ly. "Dora, you make It hard for me
to talk to you frankly. I never
know just how you are going to take
things."
"What things?"
"Why"—awkwardly—"some ques
tions I want to ask you."
"Because you don't ask them, per
haps," she suggested. "But you
spoke a while ago as if you had some
important matter on your mind, yet
now that you have a chance to put
it into words you seem to have for
gotten all about it."
"I have not forgotten It," he de
clared. "Only I think perhaps I will
ask Stewart instead."
He watched the effect of his words
and saw the girl start slightly, as if
taken by surprise. Yet in another
Instant she smiled.
"Well, do as you please about
that," she said., "It Is evident that
the subject on which you wanted to
consult me does not concern me, es
pecially If you could consult Gerald
just as well about It."
Milton came close to her and laid
his hand on her shoulder, bending
over her as he might have bent over
a child with whom he wished to rea
son sensibly.
"Dora," he said slowly, "listen to
me. Why are you going to marry
me?"
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Her eyes wavered under his steady
gaze.
"Do stand up straight or sit down,
please, Milton," she commanded.
"You make me nervous leaning over
me like that."
She waited until he had drawn a
chair by hers and had sat down.
Then she looked at him squarely.
A Bitter Question
"I am going to be guilty of a
Yankee trick and answer your ques
tion by asking another. Why are
you going to marry me, Milton?"
"It is late in the day for you to
ask me that, my dear," he told her.
"Had X not cared enough for you to
want to marry you, I would not have
asked you to be my wife."
"Well, does not the same reason
apply to my acceptance of you?" she
argued.
He hesitated, and when he spoke
it was with an offort, as if he had
suddenly determined to learn the
truth.
"Dors," he said, "do you love me —
or is there some one else?"
"Some one else?" Her exclama
tion was hardly louder than a whis
per, but It carried a world of mean
ing.
"Yes," he said, "Is there?"
She threw back her head and
laughed. "What a silly question!
No—l do not know any other man
who. would take me If yo*u throw
me over to-morrow!" she said
harshly.
"That Is not true, dear," he re
marked. "I know there are men who
admire you, and who, but for the
fact of your engagement to me would
ask you to marry them. But that is
not what I meant. I want you to
tell me If there is anybody you
would ' rather marry than me—if
there is any man whom you love
better than me."
"As nobody seems to love me as
much as you do, it is ungallant of
you to intimate that I have bestowed
my affection somewhere unasked,"
Dora teased. "Come, Milton—you
and I have never been silly and sen
timental. We have prided ourselves
|on this fact. Let us not begin to be |
foolish now. We have always been |
good chums. Neither of us loves the
other madly. But I have always un
derstood that that kind of affection
is not essential to marriage. Mother
says It is not: so does father."
She had risen as if to end the dis
cussion, and now started toward the
door. But Milton followed her and
checked her.
"Dora," he. said brusquely, taking
h6r hand In his, "you must not go
until I have finished what I started
out to say."
She looked up at him, waiting.
'T have heard," he went on, "soraer
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thing that has decided me to learn
the truth, if possible. Where were
you on the afternoon of the day that
Stewart and Cynthia became en
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"I was at home!" she said desper
ately, struggling to release her
hand from his grasp. "I was at
home all that day with a bad head
ache. I don't know What you mean."
"Then I will tell you," he said,
"Your mother saw Stewart standing
in here in the firelight with a girl.
His arm was about her and her head
was on his shoulder."
The color was slowly ebbing from
her cheeks, but she held her head
high. ,
"And what of that?" she demand
ed. "Why do you tell me about It?
Was it not perfectly right and prop
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the waist of the girl to whom he had
just proposed marriage? I am sur-
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prised that you talk of such a thing,
Milton."
"I would not," he said gravely, "if
I had not learned that your mother
got home at about five-thirty that
afternoon. Cynthia did not leave my
father until"—
He stopped as a hurried step
sounded in the hall and the por
tieres were suddenly jerked apart
by Mr. Livingstone.
"Milton," he announced, excitedly,
"they have telephoned from your
house. You are wanted at onee.
Your father has had what they fear
is a stroke of paralysis."
(To B Continued)
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take out naturalization papers al
though he had been in this country
30 years.
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