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Show section : m magazine ( a fakt grftw 1 SALT LAKE CITY, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 1928. MAIDEN MEDIW10N5 u ' ( ; No' fmn resolve That time may mock And days dissolve. To plot reform would work THE YOUNGER SEX. J Too young to even sit alone, im Daoe ctemanas oy snneics ana prarue Folks chase his cradle ennui With doll and rattle. in- - voive And long and toilsome rhyme I make no pledge. I like my groove, THE GOLDEN BOUGH. There's plenty room In it to move. Just gradually Td improve A littU at a time! Seasons come and customs go. Now t?e ' ." oofed " mmTetoa. Unce upon a tune a mat Waited for Christmas kiss. Magic branches take the shelf Now a girl must help herself. iiijWiiwi Rich, full of dignities and things, jvnee deep in fame, stocks, cars and bonds, To play with dolls and rattles, still Man s heart responds. rOotrmrtl IBM' Bj Th Chioco THbua.) About Selecting New Year Resolutions for Other People r MRS. ORRIS SAYS i There are hundreds and thousands of persons who ought to resolve Tuesday to stop talking, and get to work. The world would be so much simpler for the workers, if the talkers would just clear the track. Nine million of America's more than forty million families ought to resolve No arguto get out of debt in 1929. ment, no excuses, no explanations have anything to do with it. They ought to get out of debt. Even if it means onion soup and apple sauce for the next three months. It is an appalling thought that ery one of us does something drives the others wild. 'BBk ev- that How many women in America, do you KATHLEEN NORRIS suppose, would confer an inestimable benefit upon their friends if they would Just stop talking illness? With other women, and they are far from being poor women, it's money. There Is something essentially vulgar in so much talk of money. Money is a means to an end, not an end In itself. self-contr- ol half-sob- morning's paper has an account of some English girls of and high position, who have Just announced a resolution to "go decent" in 1939. One of them wrote about It, some weeks ago. They are going to stop cocktails, atop smoking, and stop the extreme forms of dancing, speeding and Jazzing that have so deeply agitated their drinking, Jazzing and smoking moth ers in the past few years. They intend to spend their time in Innocent rural expeditions, reading, music and worthwhile study. "We feel," wrote the girl who sent me a newspaper account of this original proceeding, "we feel that these are valuable years, and that we cannot waste and destroy them without wasting and destroying elements that will be valuable to us all our Uvea, We wish to be cultured gentlewomen, and we feel that by following the examples of our fathers and mothers we will be anything but that. We fear the wrecking of our lives, as they have wrecked theirs, and we Intend to follow a new road of our own." This was to be expected, this normal desire for a code, on the part of youngsters whose parents and guardians have failed to supply them with one; it seems were some nurse, and clerks in Into me the most hopeful note surance, real estate and other offices; that our civilization has struck the leader waa a buyer In many years. for a certain linen firm. These girls formed a club alone Oirb Form Clab Atone THIS j, w f Line of O Tor we hare It on this side of the too. Two years ago some girls in a bit eastern city started the same thing. Only these were work tag women girls of a really high type. A few were teachers, there men. They dance, they dine, they go to plays and movies, they picnic and give entertainments, they flirt and fall In love and marry but all as gentlewomen, as controlled, fine, responsible human beings. "Men flock to our meetings!" exults the linen buyer. Of COURSE they do. The world is full of men looking for fine wives, anxious to make clean and honorable and permanent friendships with women. The petting, flattering, drinking, mauling stage doesn't last long after high school days, it is Just what our forefathers frankly called it "puppy love." it belongs to puppies. If only American mothers could convince their boys and girls of this, when tomorrow brings In a mood of regret for past stupidities, for opportunities lost, and a willingness to be wiser in 1929! If we could only have these decency clubs starting up everywhere, with character and intelfor their ligence and mushslogan, and all the ing and kissing and pawing and general animal! tv for that's what It Is relegated to the morons, where It belongs, what a year this would bet But mothers are afraid of their children, and children don't believe their mothers, and making New Tear's resolutions for other persons Is a dangerous business. We're all too cased In sensitiveness and complacency for that. If everyone of us could tell the person nearest and dearest to us what to choose for a New Tear's resolution, families would be broken up by the wholesale, and 1929 would come in on a flood of heartbroken divorces, quarrels and tears. CosMnl Possibly Stand Common Sense Resolntion. We couldn't stand It We think we think we were have common sense, and we don't think we're unusually conceited, but when It came to having husband and wife kindly and tactfully tell each other what NOT to do In the next twelve-mont- h our flesh creeps. The very Idea Is humiliating, it couldn't be done. I imagine Mama's feelings, for example. If one approached her with anything like this. "Mama, darling, will you do George lines of common sense and simple de- ceney, and It la a boosnlnf organiza-AUantiUon today, with similar clubs form- ing In several places along the same c, girls at New Tear's 1937 has resulted in Influencing hundreds of girls and er By Kathleen Norris and me a great favor this year? WiL woe to the daring person that would about your troubles, lota of the things and I'd feel that you ware sort of that are worrying you never will come back of me. And maybe you could you Just NOT drop In at the house iare suggest it When the bells and whistles are to pass' anyway; by this time next tell me about your business, and then 5 on o'clock at about Sunday, and I'd besort of, back of you." welcoming the New Tear tomorrow week youll have completely forgotsay you cant stay for supper, and night, how many husbands would ten nine-tentof what's worrying It wouldn't take a whole year tor repeat that you cant stay for supper ike to say to their wives: you tonight, and by next New Year t certain absorbed, inaccessible faand then stay and then say that you iVhat Husbands ComM day you wont be able to remember thers to get hold of their small sons; dont care to go with us to the movies any of it Won't you try, for awhile, it could be done In half a year. In a ay to Wires. and repeat that you won't go, and "Anne, dearest, will you make e to pick interesting bits of news out quarter of a year. But there has to 1 then go? Tou see, Mama. George that awkWill you of the papers, and to save up for the be a beginning, and It and I usually go off somewhere, on resolution for next year? dinner hour the pleasant and most ward, inexperienced beginning that dis52 not to whole weeks, Sunday, and he likes to save the pa- try, for a father dreads dreads that the boy noouraging things of the day?" per until he gets home, and then tress me at dinner with a long, comThis would be one of the darkest will think he is Insincere, or has some make himself comfortable, and have plaining history of what has gone on New Tear's days that ever dawned secondary purpose in being friendly. me fuss with a little special supper during the day, what the servants in THAT family, if the husband and And so the man goes on his lonely and DEARLY as he loves you, am) have done wrong, what things coat 'ether dared get as far as that road of golf and club and business, hs GLAD as we are to have you with us if you COULD come in on week " nights This would end with a scene thai would probably lead to Mama's coming to live in the spare room, for life. In almost every relationship of how long the dressmaker kept you waiting, now tired you got. how Inso- lent Betty's music teacher was over the telephone, and how you wish that we had bought on the hill, while we were about It? "I get home very tired, and even 11 mother-in-ladaughter-inthing have gone wrong with you all -law, all three are longing to day It would be much more restful establish some simple adjustment, to me to have you pretend that they some simple change, like that, but had gone right. I cant do anything son-in-la- What would happen; one wonders, son of the house the iddressed his father m some such erms a these: "Dad. wont you make a resolution to be my friend this year? Lots of times I want to ask you things, or tell you things, and I get shy I'm not sure whether you'll like It or not I wish In 1939, that you and I could get to be friends, so that we could say anything we liked to each other, i thick-skinne- d, ' Mama darling, will you do George and me a great favor this year? Will you Just not drop In at the house at about 5 o'clock on Smfday?" 7 fVfJ and the boy struggles with all the problems of youth alone and all the happiness and companionship that eaight have been is thrown away! Many ShoaM Resolve To Get to Watt. There are hundreds and thousands of persons who ought to resolve Tuesday to stop talking and get to work. The world would be so much simpler for the workers if the talkers would Just clear the track. Every family has one or two slackers, to whom It would be the most refreshing thing In the world to say: "Betty, for 1931 will you please Just stop telling us what you're going to do, or what you'd like to do, and get In and do something? Wave heard all the reasons why you lost your last Job; we know Just how unjust and unlucky your life has been; we know you're up against it but will you Just shut up about your troubles, and get started somewhere, if it's only piling trays to a cafeteria, and then come to us with a story that Isn't hard luck? Bring us a good-luc- k story, Just once, and relieve us of that little strain that la always worrying us, to the back of our mind, when anyone speaks of Betty I" Nine million of America's more than forty million families ought to resolve to get out of debt to 1939. No argument no excuses, no explanations have anything to do with it They ought to get out of debt Even If It means onion soup and apple sauce for the next three months, there's a New Tear's resolution worth while, and one that they'll be glad of all the rest of their Uvea. It Is an appalling thought that vpryone of you and I. and all and friends and neigh- one of us, dees some-driv-es mmtlha? the others wall tell us. but how they cant They would love it If we suddenly saw the light I How many women in America, do you suppose, would confer an Inesti- mable benefit upon their friends If they would Just stop talking nines? Stop talking about headaches, backaches, ilniisss. colitis, neuritis, doe-todiagnoses, symptoms, anesthetics and narcotics? One woman I know always starts In on her illnesses when she meets you, as If she were making a business report And Then There's The Illneos Teller. "I told you last summer about my operation, didn't I?" she begins. "Well my dear, did I get as far at the tissue breakdown? I had to have hypodermics seven days running" Hours of this. They have servant, ears, hsawlanme homes; they travel and buy furs and they reduce everything to the money base. "Dld I ten you what the custom charged me? Look at that, and toll me what I paid for it. She ought to be a good waitress, do you know what you have to pay a waitress nowaday? They're comfortably fixed, arent they? What do yon suppose he gets? Isnt it awful our vegetable bill last month and the Community Cheat-fi- ve dollars here and ten there! Win you tell me something frankly? What do they pay for a short story ?" There is n"Htng essentially vulgar to so much talk of money, if one I really pr eased for it, agonizing over it suffering for the need of Just a little of It, then one Is never supposed to mention it at all It la left for rich persons, comfortable persona, to keep harping on the one string. I thousands of them would make men ha lou tomorrow either not spend it on this or that, or to fa the price if they do spend It. Money is a means to an end. not an end in Itself, and any one of us would rather have a bowl of crackers and milk, in peace and tranquillity, than an artichoke Hollandaise to an accompaniment of whisper from the bdeto: "Do you realize what that pirate at the market is asking Tor them?" Ana for another resolution but I rs, S- - What a lucky thing for me those who rand this casfMa at me with, "While were4o the jeet. wny ooot you make a ttonr wny oon t (Copyright. 193B. by the Bell eate. IncJ |