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LIVING ON $6 A WEEK-r-BY O. HENRY
"That Great, Human Pen" Writes for the Readers of
This Paper the Unfinished Story of Dulcie.
Long before vice commissions began to flourish through America
long before anyone ever thought of "officially" investigating how "our lit
tle sisters" bridge that terrible gap between the-weekly INCOME of $6 and
the weekly OUTGO of at least $8 the greatest of all American short story
writers that insuperable seer of the human heart, 0. Henry, wrote the
greatest of all short stories, the. simple annals of "Dulcie."-
Dulcie must have told it to 'O.' Henry herself. It is all so life-like. No
arguments about virtue. No harangues about economics. Just the story
of how she lived or tried to live on that $6.
And then comes what happened when the cash got short one Friday
night and "Piggy'passed in a bid for a swell feed at a lobster .palace."
And how if it hadn't been for Lord Kitchener's eyes '
But that's the story "The Unfcnished Story."
It will appear in The Day Book in two installments, beginning to
morrow. Watch for it! -Read it.
See what YOU think will be the end of Dulcie and her "unfinished
story." ,
The story that O. Henry was not brave enough to finish because he
loved mankind and revered the beauty of girlhood TOO much!, 5
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