Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-06-27 | Page 27 | Do You See Life as it is, or through Your Emotions?

1 Do Y You QU See Life as It Ii Is i or Through Your Emotions B By WINIFRED RED BLACK Copyright 1915 1315 by Newspaper Feature Service Inc Ob said the woman Ive I've known for a long ong time what fun it is to tobe tobe tobe be beIS 45 IS Then she ahe went on to tell teH me about It When I was about 1 18 8 said the woman Id I'd known for tor a long time I 1 didn't live to dance I danced to line H Waltzes were the fashion then and the whole world swung in the zenith to two three two three and I remember saying to my mothers mother's horror that I hop hoped d when I 1 died they would pia play the Beautiful Blue Danube at m my my funeral And all all all' I knew or cared about a a. man was was Did he dance well If It ho he didn't out with him into the outer darkness And ho he might gnash h his teeth for all I C cared But if it he could wl waltz lz really well I was prepared to fly fy with him to the ends of ot the earth J if only hed he'd ask me He might be a burglar or a n. porch climber or Just a plain defaulter little did I reck reek or oven even stop to wonder tum te tum te tum te-tum-te-tum-my m mork work ork was waltzing At 23 I was wat lu iu love lo with loveI love I 1 must be bo loved lo Immediately madly romantically But much more important than that I must love love no no matter who or what or where or how love lo love I must and love I would Love and Marriage My Iy first was a telegraph operator In Ir the little village where I lived Some people said Mid he was sulky I know that he was merel merely sad Some said Bald ho was dull I knew he was reserved Some said he was conceited I knew he was nobly no proud And if he was vas pool poor how much more romantic And if Ir he drank more than was good for tor him what could be more I touching I pined Va a away for almost t two o months and then the new clerk at the bank attracted m my attention He was ao o different so merry eyed so witt witty so 50 quick at nt villa village go rt repartee partee and utter after him came the young lawyer and after aCler him the business businessman man who was wan visiting in town And I was always so 60 dead in love with tho ho idea of or love that 1 I never saw MW the thereal real man at allI allI all allI I didn't want to see himAt himAt him At 24 I wanted m my career I wanted to be famous to be admired I must be an authority On what Oh that was as a a. matter of ot small Email importance on on something somewhere somehow At 26 I really fell tell in love and married mamed Teall really And for five years the poor wretch I married turned into a hundred different being a a. hundred times a da dayTo day To mo he was never a plain man trying to make a living living- aa M best hest he ho could in tho the plain world I Ho was a god an n angel a misunderstood saint an unappreciated genius I and and I 1 must worship him and console consolo him and comfort him and Understand him When I think of ot what that poor man must have ha undergone being understood by me a dozen different ways was at time Or else he was a demon a a. heartless wretch a false falso hearted deceiver a n. base bM trifler a a. cold hearted relentless and ruthless villain I was wall always alwa's on the heights or in tho the depths Always loving him to death or hating him to life lire How the poor loor man over stood it I dont don't know And then came the children children angels angels geniuses every everyone one of ot thorn them I breathed for tor them I existed for tor them I lived for them and for tor them alone Whomsoever my eldest t hated with the tho indomitable hate of adolescence I hated bated too Whosoever the youngest loved my heart softened to them I saw sav tho world through the eyes ees of or my children I never had time to look through m my own eyes at allAnd allAnd all And now the eldest has gone to seek his fortune and Im I'm lucky lucks if it I hear from Crom him once a n. month and the second is Ie married and as ns much in love lo with her husband as I was with mine and the third is in high school and has Just been elected president of ot his hla class claa and I have Just begun to live 11 really For the tho first time in m my life Bre I see things as they are arc without passion without the tho personal phase of it It For tho the first time timo in m my life lito I can am go to a party without worrying as to whether they'll think me pretty prett or only attractive o For or the first time Ume In my lIfo life I can cnn hear a song sons without thinking thinking- of tho the singer For the first time lime in It twenty went years I can listen to music without A tug at my s The emotions have IULe retired to their proper place My y heart is giving Shing m my brain a chance and Ive I've begun to live What an interesting world It is How full tull of ot now new experiences s. how crowded with people who have something to say aay to me that I want to hear I 1 was 45 yesterday Id I'd like to give a part party In honor of the event and read to the assembled m company my declaration of independence como come true at last And she he looked as if Ir she meant it It every word of oC I It the woman I 1 have ha known BO so man many years ears I 1 hope she did dont don't you r r