Show j The ec 00 ir l Afraid of Mice c BY MARGARET E SANGSTER R WHAT HAT gas as that YOU Mid Dorothy Doroth 11 Am I sure that I 1 heard beard you ou aright Are Y yeti u realty really afraid ot of ota ofa a little gray mouse that YOU cou could hold holdin in your Jour hand band that scuttles away from fromY You Y U in terror that measured by inches I Is 1 lea formidable than a rabbIt u 0 a squirrel Yes you ou own It a 1 blu blush You rn really are afraid of a 8 mousy moua So I Ian are an Frances Jane and ever ho 50 many I others of your friends A marked aversion to the entire tam fam family ily jj or of feature o of most women oen whether they are little I or large The little woman of 10 I screams s ream at the sight of oC a mouse and so 10 df does S her ber older sister and very likely I her mother and her grandmother are equally a as warmed alarmed at the appearance o of this small monster which Is Indeed R a beast beut of prey but such a wee bit bitof ot of a beast east not In the leant Uk like a lion lionor ur or a tiger a panther or a wolf oIl I the tho dislike to mice Is natural wIth I f motet lIJO t ot of us tel fr the ver very good d reason relOn 1 hat a mouse moue In the pantry makes dia dj cl ret able depredations depredation and apart from the toll toU ho takes I Is an anything but clean that a a mouse In the bureau drawer dibbles Ilov gloves and eats buttons It If they Ire tre covered with silk and that a mou mouse e eJ J in 11 the bedroom is not lust just the one would choose at the midnight hour Mice lIce are pretty rett little mUe With t heir gray coata anti and beadlike un eyes Iut ut they belong to the cla class of oC crew crea t I urea Lrea which for our own benefit we fight I am not asking my girls ahli r like Uke them but for tor sake Dor DorI I h l d do overcome your terror at their If F mouse has sever yet let been known I ill devour a school fist I wish I could persuade you trot hot to hl 11 afraid of t anything great Ot or small Wf v must take certain precautions To ToVIk wilk VIk up as some girls do 10 to R a strange stra e el l him on the head and try JIl to with him without J Illing sure that their acquaintance is o p I sometimes dangerous and always a risk Do Dogs are the dearest friends wg have hae in the brute creation They are loyal to their masters and they sometime seem m endowed with almost human Intelligence But the they art rtH very much like lite men and women They prefer to choose their friends and they nay may resent relent approaches from pt people ople who ho have bave not been properly In introduced Never Nevel reel feel or show hension when Y you U meet m t a dog dOC that Is going about It Its own affairs hut do nut be with dog doc Qt or cat cr 1 other animal until you a right to do so 80 because you youla I la have e the circle le of lt Its friends A girl who ho is Ii afraid ot of an any animal from M a CO cow In the pa pasture tule to a mou mouse e elu lu h the wall AaU carrl carries about with Ith her bel a ar I r handicap We should go 30 about the world Olk bravely and fearlessly I 1 have hae a een n a lady In fu a make A spectacle of l herself in the pros pres nI e of ft a group of ve very brilliant and because she was afraid ot of A cat In walked Muff the splendid angora that WAS the pet ot of and Up tipon ou a sofa sota with a shriek And It a scream rum 1 a clutch clutching and gathering of oC her skirts jumped a ahl alady hl lady who ho should have hae knower better belter than to belie In that fashion under the roof toof ot of a friend friendt t the Ine rule we f may as wen well as not ot lAY flu down Vf for tOI ourselves girls and that Is a arut arule rut rule ot of One mA may be a t little frightened inside but she does dill need to proclaim It Because e we to dislike bats beetles June dragon flies or an any other ment mem memI t I I t 1 s ot of the world of t creeping and 11 fly in II things that scurry out of oC space to toi i us Ui we need not communicate nul HUnt feeling to others It we choose we j 1 Y control aU all expression or of dislike or dread Ye We mA may sometimes V l 1 afraid but we may keep keel ourselves I m showing it ft 11 through our lives WI we should try t to be In bondage to any form or of orSome Some Seine girls l cannot bear benr pain 0 d themselves more In the t J ht ot of what they may have to suf r from a IU slight ht operation or An In Inthe than the paIn itself would amount in Iii other words theY suffer staler more mort I I fright then from reality Once Onte in le one m meets t a girl Irl almost grown crown I I who is afraId of the dark I hop hopp i is if n tn the case CAN witE Dorothy or 01 i ii i her friends The rho tear fear of the i I k Ii is I a tyranny which assails ell ellI chil chilI I who echo have been wickedly alarmed or unscrupulous per persons ms and andI I tan fancy that dan danger r of every overy kin kind i h behind the frIendly curtain of the 1 ht But our Father FaU r sends f 1 I kind darkness to so that we may mayI I Fu and rest feat and there tb re is ia not nothing in into I I to give anyone one the slightest t tea fear I f stars are its Ita lamps lampa and the moon II the rho full fill dK It with a glory clory as 85 asat I at aj a y that or of the tte sun lun While WI we I I I our Clod wat above us Uit and hi angels art are our guards lards I Another thing nl almost ot as foolish as asI I fear of the mouse ta Is the foal boar some I i 11 plc have MYS of taking different diS I In case Calle of an epidemic such as asi i t typhoid fever or cholera I I many precautions c cannot be taken l 1 if on ones dUt duty is 18 not on the scene acene action netlon It la Is well to go to a safer ler lert t r Rut po o one should bt be a coward If Ie V are about there is Ie no reason that you who are In good lood take them To ToI I distressed d lest one day a or orther ther you OU or I shall be menaced by riet fever or smallpox Is hi vcr very need i and quite unIts unfits us for tor doing our I II Lid 1 work nils flits C courage ura e that I have been talk g about thus far Lt 1 purely I would not like any girl for tor whom hom I 4 ar d to be afraid to cross the conti Ilent or the ocean because something might happen on the rail or on the sea The ship Is the captains business n ma the th rAilway train le Js in charge charse of I the fhe conductor and engineer You may inay ho 10 reft reasonably sure sore that the average than man will wUl fulfill the requirements ot of his hll l maiden n and yOU as aa 1 a passenger have r to do except to enjoy enjo yourself too belongs elon s largely to the realm rr 1 physical courage Now W I want to speak peak about a higher Lind ind of t courage There are bravo peo o 1 I II who never n r shrink from da danger r that I t the 11 bode but who ho are mora moral I I Iwar uw war arts s they are afraid to speak th the t I truth it If the truth Injure them themselves selves art are afraid to iet about their l loved vet one They I jilt ie from their UMIt Oft byes things they the 1 II not Dot want cat to see Whatever ellS diet oLP p may bIO be ore should l try very try hard hurd hurdt I t to be mOrAlly brave brava At any b be betrue true and noble Let the quote for tor you hurl stanza which ev evy evy y girt olet DOW by heart hoart to e Old staid and let Jet who will be 1 e no Do neble ble S not dream them aU all allAnd daf And eo It 14 lore e sad t the e great for tor ver verlie lie LN gram S song g gc c at 1 lilt by br it B Bowles |