Show o s jj ft T j Temper Temperament ment Bothering Y You ou I Seek eek Beauty in Commonplace I By Br Winona Wilcox If It there is ono one ailment moro more than another afflicting woman oman today It Jt Is ia temperament Temperament is 18 a disease not nol unknown un- un unknown un un- known to man But when man 1 is the unfortunate victim ho usually works over his temperament into ome some form tonn of ot genius and plays tho the pIano like Jike or poses pole either in tho movIes movies ies ics or in tho the political arena urena But nut woman hampered by tho the conventions conventions con con- and tho the shape shapo of ot her corset and tho the low rate of or her wages and the tariff unItt on talcum and her lack Inck of or the tho suffrage and nd her manicured finger Inger fingernails fingernails nails and and and- Goodness gracious what doesn't hamper woman Woman oman so limited In her opportunity ty for tor c- c expression Is accustomed to re repress repress ro- ro press her temperament And temperament corked up Is like yeast east working In a warm oven There I I I I ia is fermentation an unpleasant uprisIng uprising uprising ing Is liable to occur and temperament temperament temperament tempera tempera- ment In theory becomes temper in fact In advanced stages the afflicted di divorce divorce dl- dl I vorce their husbands and desert their children But a mild run of or the ailment aUment merely makes them so introspective the they never have havo time to stop top thinking about themselves long Jong enough to do a single useful thing for anybody And this old ohI world I is fairly aching for tor service service service ser ser- vice intelligently applied Which brings Ings us suddenly to the beauty of or the commonplace Did you over stop to think how many commonplace women n there have got to tobe tobe tobe be in order order- to get set all the thc necessary commonplace things dono done to make ex exIstence exIstence existence ex- ex halt half wa way desirable There are aro commonplace breakfasts to get et for commonplace husbands who are absolutely lacking in temperament There are commonplace holes to darn In commonplace socks tocks for tor rough small boys And commonplace old people to comfort in their Weakness And commonplace commonplace com com- babies to wash and kiss The woman who attends to all of or orI I these and several hundred other equally equal equal- ly commonplace duties never nevel has time to learn what she ml missed sed when aho sho escaped catching temperament In the swirl of or about being extraordinary it Is well worth worthwhile worthwhile while whilo to stop and dwell about a day clay upon tho beauty of ot being i commonplace |