Show The Household 8 By LYDIA LE BARON WALKER Resignation U is a curious thing thine there I la is about It a ft slightly religious trend as If It somehow Providence or Fate had so ordered events that they must be endured so 80 the least said laId about the state of affairs the better belter as It could not be changed Or It If one mu must t talk about bout them that It should be he with an air of determined acceptance acceptance accept accept- ance without resentment A fortitude Is Implied which one consciously or unconsciously feels to be laudable To endure without complaint Is mag lung This makes the question arise should one endure pas ely Unresisting acquiescence Is one deft of ot resignation It Is assumed that there Is nothing which can be done the thing IS s over oer which one Is resigned Such an attitude attl atti tude may mity be mere laziness rather than thana a praiseworthy condition If It there Is any way to make matters malters Improve e or orto orto orto to build something good on what appears appears appears ap ap- pears to be a troublous foundation then one should be stirred Into activity ity It Then there Is II a call to conquer conqueror or to progress and what one blindly assumes to be a cause for resignation may be a suggestion to act or a sun sum mons coons to go forward Active Resignation A case In point comes to mind where a loved lo daughter died diet of con con- The berea bereaved ed ed parents felt It their duty to be resigned and to accept this sorrow without complaint and with passive fortitude They so expressed themselves to a friend of ot mine who was endowed with Insight and and was tactfully fearless in helping others to clear thinking When they acts of kindness or a gentler method of accomplishing home management It may be that endurance of ot annoying material things can be relieved or stopped by actively doing something about them It U may be that community pity work can relieve ones one's own sad Introspections or recollections and at atthe atthe atthe the same time aid others to Improved living conditions and to happier bappler exist The resignation which Is ti laziness laziness lazi last ness of mind or body bolly can In the alchemy alchemy alchemy al al- al- al chemy of right activity be transformed Into benefits O C. has un D nit ll said they thel were r resigned to their loss losa which nevertheless was wag draining their very life blood she sId said But ut should you be resigned Is th there re nothing you jou youcan ou can do dot The mourning couple couille began to think In n terms other than of ot acquiescent acquiescent acqui acqui- submission They dwelt on the causes of the death of their daughter with the Idea of ot helping others similarly afflicted of ot making their lives more comfortable comfort comfort- able The outcome of this was a well well- equipped hospital where patients patient I were I Inot not only made more comfortable but were cured The work brought relief i ito to these parents parentI and a deep joy In the realization that their daughter was Wal associated associated as as- with It that without her this particular relief work would never ha have ve been dons done don eo Transforming Alchemy There Is no household In la which acceptance acceptance acceptance ac ac- to some existing conditions cannot be changed Into betterment It may be that the home atmosphere can be made sweeter by some IOme little |