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Show MAGAZi N E mm SALT LAKK Telephone Wasatch 591 ( m MTV, SUNDAY MOHN1XU, SKI'TKMKER f), SECTION Telephone Wtsatrh 590 1928. MADEN MEDITATIONS &SaiaMoore wa W if- WW ) Win irrai' iiv i tsvj: t ii f i - - ill TO BE OR NOT TO BE? PACEMAKERS. Sweet consolation thought now cheer than bares What you wear is buff or tan (Fashion soon will favor More rich in rhyme Peg Joyce weds all. the lionaires But just one at a time! blue); Must you grieve when somecne ' else "Movies and radio will kavt an important influenet in tht coming campaign." Editorial. Mate up ray mind, Samaritan,' But when AI Smith is on th scene To be or not Republican: I think " Herb Hoover ain't to At intervals I'm almost that mean ! " And then, again, I'm Democrat ' ' Make up my mind Samaritan, ,' ror wnen i cc nero rcoovcr 5 - o be or not Republican. face At intervals I'm sure I'm that I think Al Smith is quite an And then, I go straight Demo- - ON MONOGAMY. P(?y 7o'f to wed for the ffth time. .VfttJ. Never do you pause to heed Tree, a star, a wind, a dale. Blindly you get on with speed To a half-pric- e bargain sale. . Wears a style ahead of you ? tCoprrtfU: IKS: Br Th Chioaco mil- crat ace; Trlbons. Dishwashing and Bedmaking, and About Putting Wings Beneath Them blind man in the Bible stumbled painfully and slowly after the who had brought the words of eternal life to a certain quiet little, village, two thousand years ago, and voiced the prayer that ought to iftfH De on " our ''Ps a" ,t,e i,rri' "Lord, that I may THE Jf we could see if we could see this tumbled and troubled world clearly and truly, then how it would sparkle with light and inspiration and joy, bow filled with rapture every street corner, every wistfully staring tenement baby, every hour an. I minute would be! But it is our sorrow and shame that we cannot We are born blind, like puppies, and it is see. only when it is too late, when years and changes and space have closed certain doors, and when death has closed others, that we begin to perceive the big pattern begin to perceie that every hour and every day of our lives might have been turned to good account, might have been of priceless value in taking us toward our goal. AH about us are the ruined lives of men and women who have never seen, and who never will. Thev talk about their hard luck, about their lack Kathleen Norrla. 0f education, money, opportunity, advantages, and they don't see that the only real lack of their lives has been that of character fundamental character that would have seized upon all these disadvantages and turned them into blessings, of simple basic principles that to would have acted as a rudder steer their ships through seas of "crt while, how gladly I would trouble infinitely worse than these. hve sacrificed everything every- to take care of my baby, to Tbe woman who has met hardship thing! and looked them be with her, to forget movies and and trouble, caT parties, and enjoy my little straight in the eye, and mastered while I had her! them, is the woman who sees. Other gir' But we cannot know. Life doesn't ivomen are divided into two classes, the useless, pampered present itself to us as what it is, a restless, women of the upper social circles, road a clear, clean, inevitable road, who spend their lives in the wretch- - leading through desert stretches, ed pursuit of that true happiness through atorms, through black always evades them, and tho est and blinding dusty plain but restless, useless, discontented women going somewhere. It isn 't a blind of the poorer classes who grumble morass, it isn 't a marsh or a quick-an- j scowl over their dishpans, in sand, it is our way and when it seems dull or wasted or futile, our their disorderly housea. These last two classes arc like only recourse is to the blind man ' ships that get out into deep water prayer: "Lord, that I may see." and begin to go round and round To drop out7 and wander into aimlessly, sometimes making for one wayside fields, and dawdle off into sometimes for another, horizon, temntimr side lanes i. mor.lv Having no purpose and no port, they avoid the inevitable. We have, not consider themselves do naturaily eventually, to get back to the road, to be going anywhere at all, and and follow it older, sadder, - less between stopping, starting, drifting, hopeful to its. appointed end. And they waste ail the precious years of life has a strange way of making us pay for our blunders in the exact opportunity and power. "If I had only known!" we say, coinage we misspent. Life, and not in middle life, and late life. the old mikado, is the originator of If I had only known that that that fits the punishment time of exile in a dull factory town to the crime. . was going to give me the material When one gets old enough to see for my first big novel, with what, this, it is usually too late to mend relirh I would have studied it and matters. But if we need any proof it! analyzed it tiud that there 18 a Supreme Intelli- If I had only known that Tom gence back of all our days and ways, was eventually to be stationed in that there IS a scheme and a plsa ur illcs, bow easily 1 could have and cause that creates the effects studied French io all' those dissatis- we aee, we need only watch th fied first years of our marriage! lives that go on about us to find in If I bad only known ' that ,we any one of them all the assurance Here going to make money, and we seek. come to live among these delightful For example, I know a woman of 5 who has lived a supremely selfish' persons m this delightful city, what books I might line read, bow I life, up to this pint, and who is -tiave iiiirif i( urii'iiMe Hit- - Parma Tor toe stars' she "sired, ' mase assomyseir fit to trnlay, not by any hoptnrard chani-sir, 10 ciate with superior or a'eeident. hot' in F.XAOTLY the I f ' I had known thnt (! fahion that "fif the rrim. '" to be loaned to me for only such a H19 married a rather mild, uniuc- for-th- . 1 e . cessful type of clerk, when we were both girls, and fretted and protested through years of poverty, resenting bitterlv the burden of two children a boy and a girl. It as a general scandal in her circle that she WOULD have the social life she craved, at any cost, running her husband into debt, and going off with ber friends whenever she was invited sometimes for weeks at a time. "1 've got to LIVE, and turning myself into a dishwashing, animal isn't my idea of life!" said Louise. She went and abroad, when Jimmy was .", :ind it was during that time that Marie Louise had an infected appendix and a serious operation. Louise was always inviting minor celebrities to ber house, and sitting about laughing and smoking with them, abusing every domestic or maternal ideal wit1! high scorn. Finally she went to Kurope, and was there when her husband died. She raiuo back o her dirty, disorderly-house- , put the little girl in boarding school, and got a job in a beauty farlor. The boy was sent to eastern relatives, Louise being glad enough Marie-Louis- By Kathleen Norris out- a foil for her husband "a children, husband ' miserable lack of tuccees, them all. Her tiny house radiated just feel instinctively that It U to rid herself of the responsibility,' to have insufferable mean he But no her has and she disposiand she has rarely seen him since, son, inasmuch as boy's cold, jgnj gn(j jov peace and love, and rageous, it ii 'even ( ihare her evM. pth for he dislikes his mother, and rc- - despises the mother who failed his tion, and the fact that women achieving, auceeeding, jt Bh. doe.n t father ,0 cruelly, and her daughter never was very strong. fu,e, to be even a friend of hers. meeting.... interesting" permcTF "v traveling, ur UOff,D raised hv servants and boarding bhE. After five vears she remarried, an ... , , --u nne wai sure 01 ner goai, im uu., kuu Another woman l nave hnown lor extremely 'fine and, incidentally, House keepers and casual cheap rich man who also had a daughter boarding school teachers, is a sickly, more than twenty-fivyears drove ... guch a simple ffoall Every dish they have to atay at home in tbie and son bv an earlier marriage. And shrinking, nervous girl who suffers up my mountain road to see me last Ij wjpeij very toy she mended, stupid house on an uninteresting t linen- right here Louise began to ay. from a frightful sense of inferiority, month, u radiant, took b(.r n'Mrer to it aad lh, knew BtlMl chopping eorned beef and Marie Louise was 17 by this time, Lomse is now fighting, fighting day clad creature whose pretty daugh- jt Not that ,hi knew exactly the wa,hiBg milk bottlet! ter is acting as her traveling eom how or a pale, delicate girl who had had no and night to avoid the inevitable why or when, but hers was jh,t the milk bottlet and the to avoid the time wneu she will te panion ana secretary on a nation- home life, no training, no spiritual sort of. aoul that feels and eorned beef the children ' home- the . nen anew , new I tne out wiu nrst forced or mental help from her mother. of this automatically trip ghe r(1(J the ehbori. jo- -. 1Bd. . fjurfLouise s stepson and steptaugh- - environment o! Deauty and culture momer, oaca in me eany pari 01 told she nt ohWAY babies, .n h. r ter, on the other hand, were beauti- - and luxury because of the fact that the century, she was a young wife, M d not bom and was the domesmember of the yet daughter fully reared young persons refined, every single nor c )ndigt,nt neighbors to teach them ,ny of u. except a very Mary C a rr, from worldly and M cultivated, infinitely tie group .. pulling against every o Ientgdening,-aswhen w. are yonng. fortunate few, marat luianeial other. She hates these stepchildren least, standpoint It superior to Louise and her tro ig worth looking for, that engineering. ,emistry, jt ytt so the as r.ed wrong man, All the years in which Lou.se might who can control their tempera,, while many Carf had hum. ,y jf M tml tight that whose allusion, to pretty, eager hopeful g.rJ. do. She have been making something of l,rr- - she lo.es few ble love and eervice wonderful-- th. Mt Mst fm and babies, very rapidly, self hve been thrown away; today operas or book, are far beyond her , i((lom that perceiVe. the miracle p,rt of ' . had to take care of them her- she is an artificially eav, noisv. as- - comprehension, who swim and play nf . ..M.i sertive woman, with a smattering of icnu.s ana dance with all the vigor wu. the make believe. Now she is tour- - nd dishmopa as well aa in the more But I never saw a household run languages and of personalities for and beauty of their youth and high jng America, talking to domestic draniatie elements of. daily living, conversation, except when she is spirits, while her own child shrinks as hers was run. It was a five- - .ien(.e groups about budgetg and Slight them, akip them, slur them ' and room country cottage, with a square kitchen voicing her deep resentment over away from social contacts d Vou may find yourself chemistry, and paid an in- - over worthless men who persuade bril- - hangs her head at. dinner parties. 0f yard and garden about it, and f0me that gives the daughter and ater with "everything in life yon And she can I go back can't go from the picket fence to the chieken. herself a vacation in Europe every bant women to marry them, and etirt just within your grasp and drag them down to domestic drud- - back twenty five years, and give il,ed hibaek it was a little paradise VMr Every one of the three boys j,.r, to ,t it all go, because in your Tie those children of order. sheltered, tappy, 5, . gory and chiMbcaring. iB mote than a finanbeauty and own soul there is a .uperficiality iUcce She would love to have a splendid confident childhood they ought to She is one of the fortunate women ciai gense, and one of tbem is rated and ,elfiahnes that ruins every- books then d and act health and son who see grace-ana lovely daughter, to have, give ; beauty in every- M a Benius. And ben is only one thing. thing. A sunset, and a blue bowl of the thousands of eases that (tins- 13 hard, when you are 22, and 'P0"?' it can mother t ,n this country filled with poorest are equally ,rat, (h9 great fundamental truth running a man and house and two of miracles. ..fatally handicapped beautiful and right in Mary Carr's that everv minute of dull and stupid babies on 150 a month, to pick up now, she has io work out her life eyes; little garments, little beds, and routine work ia really a sort of a magaxine and aee a picture of litunder conditions that make success Ijtlle daisies along small sacrament, is something to re- - tie Bee Delight, the motion picture " v. ...... ...c K..r.nn nine yenow coicss reive and penorm to toe star, wbo is earning or at least it all to luck, and chance, ad her staggering after their mother she "utmostgratelully, of our power. Our destinies being paid. 1000 a week, at your parents' deficiencies, and her first literally saw good eaw God, in- sre not controlled by accident, it ia age. not necessary for us to push and fret But wait until 1938, when your ' to force and and events, worry of 12 and your girl of 10 are" boy Louise waa always Inviting minor colebritieg to her house, and sitting achieve them. We have only to be big enough to be asaeta and not lia-- . about laughing, and smoking with them, abusing every domestic or the instruments, bilities, and when the man of the channels the maternal 14eaJ with high scorn. through which infinite force works, house cornea home in quiet aatisfae-an- d our part ia alwayg passive it tion some night, and aaya, "Well, is not for us to assume control, be- - they've offered it to met I guesa cause we cannot BEE. What we i'm a partner, Mary," and THEN think we want and need may bi the tben hunt up Bee, a faded, idle, worst thing possible for us; what anxious woman married to a third we fancy would bring unmitigated husband in some obscure will only bring a sterile theatrical group, and compart; notes THEN. and incurable misery. How many women know thia All about ui wo hava the evi- of persona wbo HAVE nificant poem by Marguerite wordi worth cutting away the opportunity of the clyffe-Hal- l moment, to rush to some other place 0ut and pasting up in sight seme and tome other duty, and what where, until one knows them and botches tbey make of it, and how their meaning by heart. The name they are forced on by their own ;a "The Blind Ploughman blind wills to fresh mistakes and "Set my hands upon tha plough, fresh complications! my feet npoa the sod; Many of these men and women, Turn my face toward the east, and would If you asked them seriously, praise be to God. admit that they believe that there Ev 'ry year the rains do fall, the is a plan and pattern in life they seeds tbey stir and tpring, believe that there is av guiding in- - Xv'ryyear the spreading trees shel-- . ter birds that sing, teJligenee well, yes, call" it God if From the shelter cf your heart, you like, they believe in God. "But then why can't you wait brother, drive out sin, for the changes, for the chances, Let the little birds of faith come that may be right around the coraid Best therein, ner, that are certainly moving to- - God bat made hit tun to thia fa ward yea at fast at destiny both voa and me. Marie-Louis- e well-buil- ..,;. . - .Je, u rs. J... " t , , - !lc,r u. .ma ..i.t milk-toas- iiu, - n " - trr little corner of your life perfect, de velop it, gt all the good there t out "of if, pot wings into Well, tbey raa t say. itf" But they my soul might tee! (Copyright, 192S, ' by tht BU byadice, Inc.) |