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Show SELF-MADE MARTYR ! 1 CRITICI8M OF THE WOMAN WHO WORRIES. Mistake Made In Letting One's Self Become the Victim of Evils That Are More or Lets Imaginary. i Sho Is tho woman who bothers over ; trifles and lots tho big things Blldo. ! She will toll you sho can't take exer cises to keep herself from getting fat bocauso she Is compelled to sit so much to sow for tho children. ' j If she Is thin she will tell you sho can't get fat because sho has to Tun around tho houso bo much trylng to ,get everything done. If you apeak of another woman's protty costumo she bitterly says sho , cannot seo how women who havo fam- f lllcs got tlmo to make pretty clothes. : That sho nlso likes lovely things, but llfo Is so full of cares that she hasn't ' the tlmo to achlcvo tbem. 1 If she Is told to read a certain fascl- natlng book she will elevato her eye- ; brow and say sho has no tlmo to read; that her husband doesn't like to havo her engrossed In a book In tho r evening, and sho hasn't a mlnuto's tlmo during tho day. If asked why sho doesn't go to some of the pleasant soclnl things going on around her, sho tells you sho hasn't tho clothes to wear; that sho used to bo as well dressed as anyone when sho was unmarried, but married life Is too exponslvo to think about social llfo. If sho Is unmarried sho will tell you that sho could havo better-clothes and go about In society If sho only had tho luck somo girls had In marrying. marry-ing. And so it goes. All tho troublo is with llfo, with circumstances, and laid at tho doors of other people None of It Is her fnult. How could It bo? Sho Is a perfect person tortured tor-tured by tho hands of Fate. That all these woes exist only In her Imagination Is n fact sho docs not see. That she could bo tho captain of her soul as wen as tho mastor of her life is all Greek to her. Sho goes through llfo fretted. Every sontenco Is punctuated with a sigh. She sees tho thorns beneath every roso that Is handed to her, and rejects It. Whoever has a pleasantor llfo than hers must bo a person without with-out character, slothful, foolish or of no weight. Sho is a homo-mado martyr and will go to a martyr's gravo, which sho has been preparing for herself slnco sho was born. |