THE LITTLE DRIFTERYoung Geraldine has her mind made up in the matter of her future occupation. She is thirteen years old, has just passed into Grade Eight, has taken dancing lessons, rides a bicycle, swims well, prefers Charlie Chan to Shirley Temple, and can't see why her mother will not let her go on a hiking trip all alone. She is a strong, well-built little girl, enjoys excellent health, cares little about clothes, loves animals and smaller children, thinks nothing of a ten-mile ride on her bicycle, carrying a smaller child behind her on the saddle.
She astonished a group of us at the beach last week by telling us that when she was old enough she was going on relief. "The people on relief have the best time," she said with conviction. "I know a lot of them who live in little shacks ne
