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I'ff M fl ,ifs clue for action. There has never been a human brute to whom she was afraid to talk and talk with forceful plainness. Or it may be a girl worker in the packinghouse with some cause for complaint, and Mary McDowell marches up to thcbig .stockyards' superintendent and "gives him a piece of her mind" just as fearlessly. A She organized the first wom an's trade union ever attempted in the stockyards and insisted upon better working conditions for the girls and women, and she attends the meetings of the men's union, too. She opened her settlement in a small storeroom 14 years ago. Soon she expanded to three rooms over a feed store. Now she is at the head of a $50,000 in stitution, libraries, assembly halls, music rooms, gymnasium and school rooms, physicians, nurses and teachers. Chicago used to dump garbage 5n holes in the pavements in the stockyards district. The street commissioner said that garbage made fine pavements after it had been down a year or so, but in the meantime the odor made the stockyards smell like a perfume factory. One .bright morning Miss McDowell .appeared at the mayor's office. Bringing up" the rear was a troop of foreign wom en. Through Miss McDowell they kicked about the garbage The mavor patiently explained vhat nice pavements garbage made. , "All right, we want the rest of I it dumped on Lake Shore drive. If it's good for the stockyards it's good for the drive, too," said Miss McDowell. Very fashion able folks dwell on that drive, you know, and so garbage was not used for paving purposes there, and after that talk it was not used in Packingtown any more either. Once in a while Miss McDow ell skips to another city and talks to crowds of working girls. Her favorite address is "The Help less in Industry.'' It is worth any person's time o hear it. Miss McDowell is about fifty." Her only recreation is trimming hats. She really enjoys it. "If the working girls and the work ingmen's wives and children didn't need me," she explains, "I would spend all my time trim ming the prettiest and most ex pensive hats ever seen." o o WON BY DEFAULT (5siL "At the party the other night I won the prize for being the home- Jiest man." "Well, you chump, what did you want to attend for and take Such a chance ?" "Because I thought you were going to be there." wuHl