Show v Ii I Get Acquainted With Grief v i I fr By DR FRANK CRANE The real education of life Ufe seems to be getting acquainted with sorrow There are people who deny the existence of evil and turn their backs upon sorrow but the cult of recognizing only the pleasant things of life Ufe is hardly practical Every once in a while you hear of a suicide and for the most trivial of reasons One girl suicide who is 18 years of I age and it Jt is bec because use h her r parents will not let her hergo hergo hergo go to a party If It she had gone there ther she would not have found it much of f a a. and probably would have all about it in a few days The matter was really trivial yet it loomed so terrible terrible ter ter- before her that it made life Ufe seem not worth living The trouble was she was not acquainted with grief and did not know how to act when she was confronted with a small sorrow A great many of our suicides are young people Youth js is tragic Things mean a lot to young people people peo peo- and one thing we learn as old age advances is that nothing much matters I have often noticed that y young ung poets tend to deal with tragic themes thenes Eternity and are aie familiar to the mind of youth put but ut to old bid age things seem more temporary Life Is long and the days are long and events are arc fateful with young people but as we grow older things seem to move faster It behooves us to learn something g of the temper of sorrow Sorrow is bound to come to us sooner or later and It i is a good thing to get some practice In dealing with It ft Thomas Thoma's Carlyle sa says s 's that at the heart of every religious experience is Is' Is Isa a great v sorro sorrow and certain Itis it itIs itis Is that we all learn more from our tears than we do from our laughter Of all aU men it can be lie said With his stripes we are healed and looking back over our past we ca l see that the really leally instructive things that have come to us have ha heel been our mistakes kes Get acquainted therefore with grief Do not shun her hei but look upon her as a great teacher that equips us for life Copyright right 1927 McClure Newspaper Syndicate Inc Not ot only has hits America been l producing too much oil on but ut a lot of entirely superfluous oil cans r M Many ny ny nya a political platform that diat is Is' Is called a masterpiece masterpiece mas- mas mas mas- e of fiction turns out to be a best seller Did yo yoi you hear about the Scotch lawyer who acted as his liis wife's counsel when she sued for divorce Pedestrians seem to be increasing these days by leaps and bounds |