| Show Hearts Heart's Haven I Youth Reveals J Depres Depressed ed State of Mind By BETTY BLAIR If taken as warning that thac personal inventory is needed a depressed state of mind may be the spur that drives one to make adjust adjust- ment If it doesn't do this there is danger of moral and mental de de- de- de Dear Miss Blair My nephew jU just t turned 19 years old has been making his home with me ne and going to school He finished high school last June While he was in n school he was al always always always al- al ways restless always wanting to quit to go to work After graduation graduation graduation tion he couldn't locate full timework time timework timework work so he gave up the part time job he had went away without letting letting letting let let- ting me know and went to Cali Call fornia He found no work there thereso so is back with me again mentally depressed and acting very ugly Resents all suggestions I make lie He has given up trying to look for work Goes out every evening and returns home late 1 am very much worried about him particularly particularly particularly about his state of mental de de- de- de Can you write something something something some some- thing about the evils of allowing himself to get so low in his mind that may help to jog him out of his present present- mood back to his real active and alive self Thank you Aunt Tilly Too few people realize the mental and moral danger of mental depression depres depres- sion In medieval times it was branded as one of the seven deadly sins under the name of It was described as a compound of depression depression depression de de- de- de sloth and Irritability which plunges the whole man into a lazy languor and works in him a constant constant constant con con- stant bitterness Chaucer says of mental depression This rotten sin a man heavy wrathful and raw Thence cometh somnolence that is a slumbering and idl idleness idle ness that is at the gate of all harms Take It As Warning Mental depression should be a warning to all to whom it comes that there is something wrong with their plan of life If we take it as asa asa asa a warning it may be a blessing in disguise It should be thought of ofas ofas ofas as a driving force to change whatever whatever whatever what what- ever is wrong into something bet bet- ter Not to make us brood or fret but to think the matter out When we feel mentally depressed we should ask ourselves the question question question ques ques- tion What is this power within me that grumbles and complains What does it want Does it want to drag me down or build me up by forcing forcing forc fore ing me into action The person who will use his attacks attacks at- at tacks acks of mental depression as stepping stepping stepping step step- ping stones to force him to something something some- some thing hing better who will employ them themas as the goad that drives him onward will benefit by them but whoever lets ets such attacks drag him further into nto his own sluggishness is doomed Teach your nephew that there is isreal isreal isreal real danger in submitting to his attacks unless he employs them as asa asa asa a prod to greater productiveness or oro orto orto to o better preparation through such opportunities as are offered through the he vocational evening high school Iron ron In Vegetables Dear Miss Blair Will you please tell me what vegetables other than spinach contain contain con con- con con- tam tain iron My little daughter must mutt have vegetables containing iron and she positively refuses to eat spinach I cant can't force her to do doso doso doso so as it makes her sick Thanks for the information Mother Any vegetable table which is green or yellow is a good source of iron The color also indicates a quality which enables the body to use the supply of f iron to the best advantage You are right Mother in not trying to force your child to eat something against which she rebels Beef egg yolk and liver are excellent excellent excel- excel lent ent sources of iron to supplement that bat found in vegetables Note to Four Annulment of marriage depends upon the circumstances rather than thann on n the number of days married But since nee yours is a legal question you must ask an attorney for tion on To o Lacquer Table Dear bear Miss Blair I wish to lacquer a stand It has previously had a ablack ablack black painted or lacquered sur- sur face ace Will you please tell me what I should do to re lacquer it in black Thank you Mrs R. R First clean the small table with a good commercial wood cleaner or with rith soap and water and let it dry Sandpaper the surface put on two coats oats of lacquer undercoating with witha a brush allowing the first coat to tory dry ry before adding the second Then add dd the brushing lacquer when the undercoating is dry Two coats of the he lacquer pr provide a durable finish Quotation notation Dear ear Miss Blair In connection with Hitler and the he present European situation I w wish h to use a quotation It is this his Men are not punished for I their heir sins but they are punished by y the sins themselves And this is s the severest and the surest punishment Can you tell me who is the author of this statement statement statement state state- ment Izzy In connection with his belief that evil vil carries within it the roots of its s own retribution Tolstoi wrote |
