Show the pace thit that kills in looking up a woid in the dictionary several days ago my eyes eyes fell upon the def definition anition of em emulation u ia the act of attempting to equal or excel in qualities or actions rivalry desire of superiority attended with wish effort to attain it only the evening before we had been talking about a little women who was once pretty but now has a harassed and anxious anxious expression of countenance what is the matter with tier her 1 asked one it was a physic physician ia who anaw answered ered she has no disease she is is wearing herselt heiselt to death hy by emulation of other people the strain will kill her if she keeps it up nobody v in this world can stay fi firpi rf t his words and the dictionary definition set eel me thinking are not many women killing themselves by this same process pro ces and how drearily unprofitable it all is when one considers the truth of the physician s statement that nobody in this world car stay slay first nobody for st striving rivin as wei we may there is always some one with 1 a little more money a handsomer house more influence or perhaps I 1 more brains there is merit in the desire to make the best of ourselves and the talents given us theis is no credit due tier her who because of a desire rf cf superiority over another years wears herself out in in attempting to do that which she cannot per formIs this not one reagon for the nervous anxious look on the faces of our american women they strive to dress as well as neighbors with double their in income they give entertainments that emph the never too full purse and they buy furniture for which they c cin in ill only pay by rigid 1 sif denial were ve ne only content as women to do 10 just that which we can easily afan allord how touch much more peaceful outlives our lives would be how bow much better our children how much more care arfe and youthful our 3 0 un men these american husbands husband the best beet in the world who cannot b bear r to have their wives long for t things hin gs that by an additional strain they might give them and not our lives be longer in the land harpers bazar |