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THERE IS MORE REAL NEWS IN THE DAY BOOK THAN IN AN1T OTHER CHICAGO NEWSPAPER THE DAY BOOK 500 SO. PEORIA ST. 398 TEL. MONROE 353 VOL.2,NQ.88 Chicago Saturday, Jan. 11, 1913 ONE CENT ELLA LE PAGE DOESN'T WANT TO SELL SOUL; WANTS TO REFORM MARRIAGE LAWS Between Selling Onions and Bologna, Sister of the Soul Merchant Explains She Is Not Sure She Has Any Soul of Her Own. Maud LePage, of 333 South Winchester avenue, desires to sell her soul for $1,000 and use the money to publish her poetry. And that is an old story. But what of Maud's twenty-three-year-old sister, Ella? Does she also dream of selling her soul to some stockyards hog merchant with too much, money to satisfy some soul-want ? She does not. Or is Ella the Cinderalla of the LePage family, sitting quietly at home, selling onions in the Le Page delicatessen store? She is not. In the first place, Ella is not sure that she has any soul at all'. She says she has never felt any soul stirring within her, and be ing a materialistic person refuses therefore to be thoroughly con vinced that she has one of those articles which her sister values" at 1,000 cold bucks. In the second place, she is con vinced that there is something radically wrong with the world as it is today. This may have been brought about by the monotony of selling the aforesaid onions, to say noth ing of bologna. There is no say ing. But Ella is sure she could im prove the world, were she given a free hand. And the first thing she would have toward that end would be abolition of the institution of marriage A Day Book reporter found Ella behind the counter at the delicatessen store. An impatient customer was ex plaining heavily that what he wanted was FRESH potato salad, with considerable empha sis on the "fresh." The FRESH potato salad was duly supplied. "Have you a soul for sale?" asked the reporter