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Show j aoooooooooocoooooocoo-oo-ooo ! I THROUGH A f WOMAN'S I I EYES f g Ey JEAN NEWTON a a o c o-o o o-o a oa c-oo-o-o ao oo-ckj o ((... by Hi u.t : I S nil u-tiio. Incj Her Best Friend "My pocketbook is my best friend." I heard a woman say the other day. "If you have money you can get anything any-thing you want. Friends may prove false, children may be heartless, but your pocketbook never goes back on you." Poor woman, so soured that she does not see the delusion and the snare. Your pocketbook of course, It Is useful and necessary. One should hope that more people would realize how essential Is providing for the later 1 or the rainy day. Hut how many things your pocket-book pocket-book Is absolutely powerless to buy, and without which the things it can buy are Impotent to bring you happiness! happi-ness! line warns to ask the woman who cynically dvlares it Is her best friend, who seems to hold it all-Important: Can her pocketbook buy her help and cheer In sickness? It can bring her medical attention, nurses, dainty food, but can it give her something to get well for. the something or some body that makes it worth while to fight for life? In sorrow and bereavement, can her pocketbook buy her sympathy and consolation, con-solation, can it give her comfort like the soothing of a friend? In doubt and tribulation can her pocketbook buy her faith, that reassuring reas-suring light that will brighten the darkest day? In later years, when the world's excitements ex-citements wane, will her pocketbook buy her the ties that make life worth while?. Will it supply open doors to hearths that welcome her, will It bring loving hearts to give life to her own fireside, no matter how drab and cheerless cheer-less the day outside? Will money buy her clinging arms and baby kisses, love, solicitude or devotion? de-votion? Can money make her "be-'long." "be-'long." No. There are things Hint money cannot buy that are as necessary to feed our heart's cravings as food to nourish our heart's blood. Money cannot can-not buy them neither can they be gotten got-ten for nothing. We must earn them in the heart's coin. While the tire Will not burn without fuel, while we are all happiest providing provid-ing for and dependent upon ourselves, there are things that money cannot buy and which are in W'uth our best .friends for they bring us happiness. Doughnuts, Liver and Bacon The League of Mothers' Clubs published, pub-lished, the other day, the favorite dishes of President Coolidge. Governor Smith of New York and New York city's Mayor Walker. The favorite food of the mayor of New York city is bread pudding. The governor of the Empire state prefers above any gastronomical delight the well-known and humble corned beef and cabbage. And the President's greatest treat? Is it filet mignon, pate de foi gras? No Indeed; it is just plain doughnuts! Ills favorite luncheon lunch-eon dish we all know liver and bacon but beyond and above even that he likes to eat doughnuts I What does this prove that John O'Grady and the colonel's boss are brothers under the skin? Oh no; we knew that long ago. The point that seems to us to merit comment Is that three leaders In the country's affairs, men who can afford to Indulge any craving of the palate, who can command com-mand all the delights of the epicure, enjoy most the simple foods that' are within the reach of a day laborer. The mayor of a great city finds bread pudding a treat; the governor of the richest state in the Union gets his greatest joy Qf the table out of despised corned beef and cabbage ; and witli a retinue of people provided to supply his every want, with chefs trained to the tlnest intricacies of the culinary art, the President of the I'nited States desires not exotic delicacies, deli-cacies, but just plain doughnuts! This is merely a new illustration of the well-known fact that those who ?an have anything they desire want very little. The tastes of the mighty are notoriously simple. Many people commiserate with themselves for lack of worldly goods and envy others with more material possessions, thinking that those possessions would bring ihem happiness. If all those people could only he given carte blanche for a short time in the position of one who can command the material enjoyments en-joyments which loom so important to them, they would soon be satiated and b- glad to return, in other respects re-spects as in the matter of food, to their own simple fare. And they would then have acquired the perspective perspec-tive and the true sense of values which mean content. |