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Show W til W rU IT OM TO HBLP OTH W IHiWfc H Y JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND "sr O b a TODAY'S PROBLEM: Jealousy. AS a little girl, said Mrs. Thom-asina Thom-asina Ehrhart, Rt. 3, Rochester, Roches-ter, New York, I had many reasons for Jealousy. My older sister, three years older than I, was very beautiful. beau-tiful. I was not. Many a time some tactless person would look at both of us and then say how beautiful she was. More, she was my father's fath-er's favorite child. My other sister, younger than I, was an excellent student. I was not. Although nearly two years older, I was In the same grade with her all the way through elementary ele-mentary school. My mother was very proud of her. I used to wonder won-der why I had been born. Before I was out of high school my older sister married and moved to another town; my younger sister sis-ter became so interested in dates that she neglected her studies. But I plugged away at mine, spent more time studying than socializing, socializ-ing, and graduated a year ahead of her. That opened my eyes to what epplication can do for one. ,Tne result of my childhood worries wor-ries made me very grateful for eny kindness that came my way, and developed In mi I great mom of appreciation. When a very brilliant young lawyer law-yer returned to our home town his and mine he paid ma soma attention. Every girl In town wanted to attract him, but ha singled me out. I've been happily married to him now for eUvan years. He once told me that ha had always found the most beautiful girls vain and self-centered; that the brilliant girls in school seemed to turn into domineering wives. He further said that the only change he would like to see in ma was a realization that no one parson par-son had everything; that It was an element of jealousy that mada one see the advantages held by others and shut one's eyes to his own. Anyway, I am far, far mora fortunate for-tunate in my marriage than either of my sisters, In more than ona respect. So I am teaching my children to make the most of what they have, not to be influenced by either supposed sup-posed or real advantages held by others. I impress upon them that jealousy is a weakness and that No One Has Everything. |