I saw the way things were going around the house, and
I made up my mind to get right out for myself. Father

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WM a first-class job painter, and had hia own business,
but he was sick all the time and mother worried so be-
cause no money was coming in. Then the house got
mortgaged and I took a job right off. I wanted to studj
oil painting as I could draw pretty wdl, but of course
that was all knocked in the head. I had to get out and
hustle."

" Isn't that fine? But of course it's different with
girls," remarked Hagar.
*' Oh, I don't know," he went on, " Maybe I think dif-
ferent about those things. I look at the girts, society
girls, you know, who hang around sleeping all morning,
because they get in about three or four o'clock from some
dance, and then when they get up don't do anything but
fix their hair and clothes and read novels all afternoon,
waiting for their date that night with some new fellow.
I think of them and wonder if they ever realize that they
are no better than a lot of other women who hang around
men. Vou know what I mean? Well, the women that
make a living that way, dressing and fussing up for the
men.
