Show I I THROUGH A WOMANS WOMAN'S EYES By JEAN NEWTON O. O by tb the tb net Dell Syndicate Inc IDe She Be Bothered I 1 cant can't be bothered 1 I IThe The woman who said It had said It often otten In fact the remark might b be regarded as typical of ot her In her youth she be bothered bothered bothered both both- ered with children Later on everyone everyone every every- one thought she had realized ber er mistake rats mis take and that she would grasp the opportunity opportunity opportunity op op- op- op to adopt the child chUd of a sister sister sis sis sis- ter who died But she be bothered She had a family of course a brother broth broth- er with children and an old aunt but she be bothered spending much time with them She be bothered with friends either Friends are arc almost as bad as a family fam fam- family I fam-I ily in making demands on one And she ahe be bothered So instead instead in in- stead of friends she had mere companions companions com com- of the momen moments moment's s 's pleasure She wanted her time and her thoughts free tree to wear beautiful clothes and see everything and do everything that went on to travel and be up on the In latest test kind of shoe buckle and the j newest dance steps She married a much older man wan who gave her plenty of money an and plenty of ot leisure to Indulge indulge In in- In all these pleasures and who did not tie her down at all She had her freedom In this beautiful I world tall full of beautiful things and the wherewithal to satisfy every desire I So each year she grew more disinclined cHimed to be bothered with anything 1 that was not In the pursuit of pleasure pleas pleas- ure and more dependent for her happiness happiness hap hap- on the enjoyment of the moment mo mo- meat ment Then came the day when her youth was gone and with It the energy to called pursue the the o pleasure Her husband had died and her only human tie was a paid com com- pan panion on She had traveled 81 all over the world seen every everything thine done everything everything everything every thing had that everything everything that money could buy But everything palled life was empty and without reason She felt she had bad nothing to live for On On- meeting a distant relative a beloved beloved be be- loved mother and grandmother a woman woman who was responsible for a fine tine charity and who had also alsol the th of ot a successful career in the work she had chosen the woman who be bothered said to her I 1 envy you You have everything and andI I have nothing Why should this b be bet r rYet Yet how obvious was the answer They were getting each Just what she deserved reaping as they had sowed The woman who be bothered bothered bothered both both- ered with anything but enjoyment who had spent her life in seeking pleasures while they lasted and In later life Ute reaped the emptiness which comes cornea of having given noth nothing Dg the void which Is the heritage of those who have planted no seed from which might bloom the flower of love of gratitude of accomplishment She had given nothing and life now returned returned returned re re- re- re turned nothing To the other woman growing old meant not emptiness and the end of things but the richness of fulfillment the luxurious harvest of a blessed rea reaping time Why She had bad sowed Bowed She had loved not pleasures but hu hu- hu mans She had given herself freely The devotion of children the he clinging caress now In her old age of new baby arms she had bad earned |