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The moment I could get Mr. Hughes alone the next morning I confided the whole sad story. "He looked me over from head to feet, then he started to laugh a nasty, mean laugh that made me long to slap him. " 'So that's your game, is it?' he asked. 'Well, who would have thought it? I took you for an in nocent country bumpkin to amuse an idle hour and you're just a cheap grafter. But for heaven's sake, kid, why did you tackle the profesh? Don't you know we theatrical people have been wised up to your kind? You couldn't touch us for a scent if roses were free.' "Poor little me. All my castles tumbled in the sand. I didn't have the courage to go back to the hotel for lunch I sat on the beach in the sun until I was burned to a blister, and I shed salt tears and concluded life wasn't worth living anyway, and that I would like to be at the bot tom of the ocean with all of my troubles over. Love at seventeen is worse than indigestion after eating cucumbers and milk. "At the dinner table I saw the story had been circulated and everyone avoided me. So when I reached my room I shed another bucketful of tears, wrote Misunderstood for my middle name and nenned a last fare well to mother &nd the cruel world. "And just at that moment, when I should have had unbroken solitude, the landlady rushed up to my room. '"Oh, you poor Child,' she said. 'It was a shame to misjudge you so cruelly and that mean little liar shall leave my hotel tonight. The cheap little fraud.' "What is it? I gasped. " 'I forgot to tell you, I am so up set There's a man downstairs that found your pocketbook this morning when he went for his early dip In the ocean and as he had to go to New York for the day he couldn't bring it Wtil just now, and. J am. so excite and-it Tiad a letter with your ad dress ' "I got my pocketbook Hughes left the hotel voluntarily and I sure had ar host of friends the two weeks I stayed there but my introduction to the ocean waves wasn't exactly what might be termed pleasant, for the man that returned my lost pocketbook couldn't return my lost affections, and it was a full month before I forgot Hughes." 0 0 WHY THEY HATE O'HARA The words which .follow were spoken by Lieut-Gov. O'Hara, March 1, at close of third session of the O'Hara Welfare Commission, then known as the O'Hara White Slave Commission. They and their carry ing out explain better than anything else the fierce hatred of Big Busi ness for the Commission, and they also explain why these servants of Big Business in the House intend to' choke the Commission to death: "This commission has the power to summon before it anyone it pleases. I intend that it shall sum mon before it the big employers of Chicago to explain how it comes that they are paying starvatfon wages to young girls, and thus driving some young giris to the streets. The millionaires who pay their young girl employes starvation wages are in the same class with the professional white slavers, the pimps. They are just as responsible as the white slavers for such wrecks of human lives as have been before this commission today,. "I do not care how many millions a man may have; I do not care what his social standing" may be; I intend that he shall explain himself to this committee if he be one of those who drive young girls to shame and help ruin the womanhood of Illinois by the low wages they pay those who have helped them make their mil Honst" - RtflJkt