Life — November 5, 1903 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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A Modern Problem Story. (WITH A REAL PROBLEM IN IT.) ( NCE there was a girl with a conscience and three hundred dollars. She painted china and taught women to do stunts in physical culture, and so worked her way through college—several of them, in fact— because she wanted to become a Worker with the Poor and to teach them the Sim- plicity of the Laws of Life. So she was graduated at Wellesmere and Vaseline Colleges, and from a School of Osteopathy. Osteopathy was not in her line, but she learned it because a Lady who Lec- tured on English and Ethics said, “The more one knows, the more they can do.” Then she became a paid worker in a college settlement. Because she a paid worker, she hung her head before the generous genius of the busy women who worked there two hours . week, and led a weary life at teas, golf and card parties the rest of the time. The girl only taught six hours a day. Most afternoons she made eight Friendly Visits— each up four flights of tenement house stairs. The Thorough Thinkers, who paid her eight dollars and seventy-five cents a week for doing this, thought she needed some rec- eation, so once a week they gave her an afternoon off and tickets, and exhorted her lo go to a picture gallery, and a museum. and a food exhibit, and a first-aid-to-the-in- ured lecture, because they said all these hings would broaden her mind and improve ev carriage, and make her Know and Do nore. Che girl had learned that change of occu- pation is rest, so she held mothers’ meetings n the evenings, and she told the astonished emale parents who st dl awake long enough to hi her, that they should avoid a meat diet and too much bric.a-brac in their homes. | The advice seemed unnecessary to the girl, but the Thorough Thinkers and Generous Geniuses had wished her to accentuate Those Points irl lived in a room at the top of a tenement house with a ready-cooked cereal and a cast of the Wingéd Victory. By and by she gave the Victory to a fac- tory girl, and tried to get on with a five-cent print of Hosea and a second-hand Christmas card sent her by the Moonshine Society. Presently she fell ill and was sent to a hos- pital. The Thorough Thinkers and Gener- ous Geniuses sent her flowers, but they gave her position to Another, who was willing to take thirty-three dollars a month, because they said young woman who could not Save Something on eight dollars and sev- enty-five cents a week and time from ten to eleven vr. to mend her stockings had weak CLAMS ON CREAM OF, TIMBALE OF HAL LOBSTER SAUCE COFFEE A DIGESTION HINT. effervescent waters as a digestive tonic, Our “Booklet R? quotes x number of Sent. gratis on request. White Rock the world’s eminent physicians on pure Mineral Springs Co., Waukesha, Wis. Continued on sixth page following, sree” Cut Their Hands servants BUY A Yankee Cork Puller An up and down motion of the handle draws the tight- est cork and automatically discharges it. No effort. No tea ‘No broken bits of cork leftin the bottle, Never slips. Lasts a lifetime, Fastens to sideboard, door-jamb or other upright sarface. Cannot get lost. Ask the hardicare dealer, or sent direct, express pree paid, on reeeipt of price, Rooxter ror Nickel Plated, + $1.25 TUE ASKING Silver = 3.50 Mer 30 days" trial money cheerfally refunded if not pleased. THE GILCHRIST CO., 117 Lafayette St., Newark, N. J. PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS Sie fnees" Spe oo a comicbooks.com