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Show I THROUGH A f I WOMAN'S I I EYES I ? By JEAN NEWTON jjj KO3OOtOHKHCHOHKrKiH0I) UCJ. by tlv, Bll Syndlcat. Inc.) A Woman's Failing "Is there anything In the world more Irritating than the way some women make rules to govern everything every-thing and then want to run )ther lives by their own rules and measures and Judge other people with the yard-ulick yard-ulick of their own making? Without knowing or considering the circumstances circum-stances of a situation or the character and disposition of the person Involved, Ibey will fling down their rule for any matter us unitjestlonahly as nature na-ture (lings a flash of lightning across (he sky. Willi no thought of the responsibility re-sponsibility they assume they will volunteer an opinion and give advice ad-vice on a subject of which (hey have absolutely no understanding. but which (hey Jam Into line under one of (heir rules! It is the older genera-lion, genera-lion, of course, from whom we suffer most In this way. Is there any wonder, won-der, then, that grown children do not seek or regard (he advice of their ciders ci-ders who would Judge only by the antiquated an-tiquated rules behind which they have entrenched themselves?" One guess tells us that this reader Is suffering from a well-meaning mother or aunt, perhaps, who has the fault of generalizing, who says, "This Is (be way to handle a husband," without knowing the man; "That is (he way to bring up a child," without considering the Individual child; "There Is the way to happiness." without with-out regard to whose happiness is in question, nnd the fact that each of us must judge what constitutes happiness for ourselves ! Life Is so complicated and people 80 very different that it is foolish to generalize. The older we grow, the more we see this illustrated ; the more evidence we find of the fact that It is neither fair to judge nor practical to ndvise one person by rules that fit another that In the human equation the fact that something has happened one way is no proof whatever that anything will ever happen that way again ! We should know, if we have lived at all, that rules about human beings are as full of exceptions as life Is of surprise, and that for unimpaired, unim-paired, straight thinking we are best off regarding rules as so mnch excess baggage and discarding them altogether. alto-gether. And yet people,' and older people as a rule, fall victims to the temptation to generalize. They tell us bow much freedom a daughter should have, how a mother should spend her time, what we should do with our money. Women are most prone to this failing. fail-ing. Men usually are slower to form opinions. |