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"A hobo," answered Mrs. Harvey, "is any -person, man, woman, girl or boy, who is out of work, out of money, and nearly out of hope. A hobo girl is any girl jobless, homeless, moneyless, hopeless. Just as a man hobo wanders around hunting for work, so does the girl hobo. "There is only this difference, the xjnan hobo can 'count ties' along the railroad, ride in freight cars, and get to the place where work is. The out-of-work girl cannot do that "But one fate is hers death, death by starvation or suicide. "No! I forgot! There's another and worse fate for the poor, down-and-out girlhobo that is sin, shame and then a more awful death. "There's always that monster of' vice waiting for the out-of-work girl waiting until she gets down to her last penny and her hunger cries the loudest for food. "There are 'flop houses' for men hoboes; soup kitchens and 'coffee lines.' But no girl out of work has anything to fall back on except her own self." "You don't look like the accepted idea of a hobo, anyway," said I. "Your clothes are not ragged and you don't seem to have any tomato cans hanging about you." "No," Mrs. Harvey answered. "But I've been out of work and out of money and I have gone into cities penniless and walked miles in search of work just like men hoboes." Right here Mrs. Harvey's eyes nar rowed and she asked abruptly: "What would you do if you were in a strange town and you did not have a job?' I stammered a minute while I thought, and answered I probably would apply at some newspaper of fice. "And if the staffs were all filled," she continued, pinning me down with her grave eyes. "Well, there is always room in someone's kitchen," I said. "I don't know it," she answered. "I haye applied numberless times for kitchen work when I needed a job, but I did not get the job. You would be surprised did you know the count less number of women today who were starving to death in. this land oU abundance. They have been looking for honest work for months perhaps and in. the meantime they have been growing frailer and -shabbier until now they are just sitting in some little back room doing something for which they only get enough money to keep them in lingering starvation. "A man in these circumstances will get out and tramp in the hopes of striking something, but convention says women must not do this. She can starve, but she must not shatter the conventions. "The jobless girl is in a much worse plight than the jobless man and- my heart goes out to her, not that I think that small wages will cause a girl to go wrong, but I hate to see thems starve, and I do see them do that5 every day. The doctors, when they sign the death certificate, may call it some other name, but it is just slow starvation." 0 Mrs. Harvey conceived thQ idea of (J helping the "down-and-outers" while, ' acting as recorder in Guthrie, Oklai She was the first woman in America f to hold a public office of this sort t "While I was there," she said, "it-., seemed to me that all the best people were those who were tumbling -. about under heavy mortgages-andc encumbrances on their land andrt when I gave up my position. I began j to devote my time to the person who , had not been able to connect with op portunity the hobo as you call him. 1 ( "I know all of them and they come from every station in society. They, are many college men in the ranks, ' and before long there will be a larger number of women who will take to the road in search of work. Women and children today are doing the , world's work, but there isn't enough work to keep them busy.' .Mrs. Harvey is a woman with a face .which depicts character. Sh?