I managed to interest him as soon as he found I really had a desire to serve. And so the Advice to the Lovelorn, born of a father's idealism and a girl's desire to be faithful to her heritage, and of an editors' loyalty to the cause of humanity, began. A ride on the subway is an adventure. Every phase of life's human comedy and tragedy are there. One may study all types of fellow beings and find material for the most wonderful, the most beautiful, or the saddest and most sordid of stories as one swings on through the tunnels that ourrow under Manhattan Island. All the way down to the living Journal office, that morning I kept remembering what Grandmother had said. Ought I to carry? Was it every woman's duty to fulfill her destiny by love and marriage?
THE STORY OF THE MISSING WATCHMAN
one letter in particular appealed to me at olive. It was written neatly and with pains taking care—but there were marks of agitation in the underlined "urgent" in one corner and "I made read" in another. I read it at once. It was a simple, human document, saying much in little.
"Dear Miss Fairfax:
"I am engaged to the watchman of the bank. Yesterday I took him on the street with another girl and he did not speak to me. What shall I do?
"MARY RYAN." 