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The Lonely Girl
RHAPS the war sent her tc the city as a worl^er. Perhaps it was the Big Advauure. which ma\es geniuses and breaks the wea\ on the same wheel. Perhaps she has always beai in hut not of the city— and still is
At any rate, she doesn't mind it so much between breakfast and dinner, for she's striving with the rest of her \ind for a living, or a little more than a living
But after the dayending meal— what? If she isn't a hibernating animal she doesn't wish to sleep the clock around every night. She can't always go to church. She can't always be reading. She hasn't the money for expensive drama, ^either can she pile a cargo of overstudy on a deep freighting of daily labor.
Of course, pleasant evenings she might go out in the streets, but—
Boys can fnd so many things to do outdoors, at night, that girls cant do. It is one of the vulgarities of our day— and many other days— that the evenmg girl ivho strolls alone is the legitimate subject for indignity that would not dare proffer itself m the fair light of the sun.
It may be idle to speculate on the number of girls that blessed refuge, the photoplay, has saved from actual harm. It is not speculation that it has saved hundreds of thousands from the mental weariness that breeds defeat. It has opened windows into fresher airs. It has rekindled the lamp of inspiration in the darkness of solitude. Through its window has flashed the rosy dawn of many a new inspiration.
Think of the lonely girl when next you hear that the "Sunday movie" is unrighteous and unlawful.
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