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Show naooocKocoooooojoooocoooo 1 THROUGH A f I WOMAN'S g I EYES I 5 o 5 By JEAN NEWTON 0 O ooooooc ooo oo ooooo ocoaooooa I l,y liu Hyi"I"kt. 1 nc i On flei'n "Different" A cur full of lioNri-roiis yoiirit; po-!! po-!! i ti on k I ii k Hi wny thrmi-h tins rrimii-r sfn-i-tH when one of tin? it-ln Ciilli-'l ll.i- a 1 1 tii t Ion of tin; otl.c-rs to a alrii!itfi--liMikliiK ijium wulkliig tlielr wny on flu. nld.-wnlk. II" wus of Inili-llnllii iiml very Hliuhhy; tut ulllil ii i it ' I ti I II I ron.iilrllollH WII.1 lilt loilr, IiiiiikIih;, (,'niy mid kiiiiiI' J, lie-low lie-low Mm NfiouldiTH. "Woii.!.T w lut t h the Men," mild the driver of the riir ; "unyhody run borrow bor-row II Hel.-tsurM !" "Why," lunched a merryiniiler from the reicr Mi-nt, "he probably w lints to lie 'different!'" IioiihlleMM the leiiNt probable cause nt this mini's eccentric appearance wus ft dcllheriite desire to lie "different." "differ-ent." I''nr more likely, was Indifference Indiffer-ence to his appearance to which hard-Bhlp hard-Bhlp find stress had numbed his eon iclonsness. I'.ut the thought Is Inescapable that ninny people do make themselves unhappy un-happy and ridiculous In an effort to be "different," to stand out apart from the rest of us. A few weeks apo a piny was produced pro-duced wllh the title "Different," In which h young K'rl was so obsessed wild the thought that her (lance, whom the dearly loved, was "different" ami heller than other men that the discovery dis-covery of a trifling peccadillo In his past which made Mm, In bor eyes, mi longer "different," Impelled her to banish him from her sight forever. 1 tot Ii spent the succeeding years In hopeless longing for each other. Two hearts were broken and two lives wrecked on the altar of being "different." "differ-ent." A genius was known to have said that he would cheerfully give all his' fame In exchange for a happy childhood child-hood which he had never known because be-cause he was "different" from other boys. And yet there are people who want to be "different," and, lacking unusual un-usual qualities to distinguish them from ordinary humans, they affect poses and postures and eccentricities of dress or manner which make them only ridiculous. I know a woman who when small hats and short skirts are being worn, deliberately affects long skirts and floppy hats because she Imagines that this difference from the "common style" makes her exclusive, ultra-refined, "different," whereas It merely makes her appear dowdy and ridiculous. The (lest tenet of refinement Is to be Inconspicuous; and If to be "different" "differ-ent" from others Implies being superior, su-perior, more refined, then particularly would It not be achieved by advertising adver-tising or attempting to evidence It by eccentricity. True distinction Inevitably Inevi-tably makes Itself felt; but to be merely "different" for Its own sake Is a very shallow ambition. |