The editor who scores the actress for lax morals seems often to ignore
the fact that there is a mental as well as a physical prostitution.
Look to it that you do not trail your banner of noble womanhood in the
dust, at the demand of any editor or syndicate. Keep your purity of pen,
as well as your chastity of body, and believe no man who tells you that
you will get on better in the world by selling either. There is room
higher up.
To Nanette
_A Former Maid_
Curiously enough, my dear little Nanette, I was thinking about you, and
wishing to know something of you, the very day your letter came.
Of many who have been helpers in my employ, you were one of the few who
seemed to care more for me than for the wages I paid.
There was between us that ideal condition which I wish might exist
between all employers and employees. You wanted the work you were fitted
to do, and I wanted such work done. You were glad of the money it
brought you, and I was glad to recompense you. You wanted appreciation
and sympathy and consideration aside from your earnings, and I wanted a
personal interest in my affairs, and a friendly wish to please me,
aside from the mere work well done.
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