Show KATHLEEN NORRIS Worry Makes Woman Seem Old 1 A TI hu 0 n a woman lOOK lOOKas NV I. I as old as worry Worry simply destroys youth and beauty Nothing hampers a mans man's career as does a worrying wife Often when she is worrying because Jim doesn't advance faster and make more money her worry is the thing that is stopping him Worrying mothers have nervous babies They know that everything is all wrong and they cant can't do anything anything anything any any- thing about it it So they become tearful go back to wetting the bed lose appetite and get attacks of asthma colds nausea A bracing confident home atmosphere would do for them what no doctor can do One mother I knew used to take three small maU children to the circus every year She worried so much about them that nobody got much lun out of the circus Its a curious thing she said to me that my children are al al- al ways sick on the way home from the circus and all that night It wasn't curious at all to me Children reflect grown up moods as sensitive sea plants shrink from hot winds Mothers Mother's worrying dries up their small spirits before they have time to flower When en older children dont don't eat do poor school work imagine grievances grievances grievances ances and slights look for lor the worrying worrying worry worry- ing lag mother She is there Form of or Fear Worry is merely a form of fear Any average woman in a normal American home can find fifty fity f U If worry about situations n reasons for fear in the course of one day and some of them do They worry about things they could change with half halt the e energy ergy they waste on worry They worry about things that dont don't concern them and they worry about situations of which they are arc completely ignorant A woman can start her day worryIng worrying worrying worry worry- ing because t that at clock lck is Is slow be e- e cause she thinks it is going to rain ram because Georges George's suit should have bave been pressed because she may be going to have a headache because Kent was so rude to Lily last night because Dis Di's invitation to that party hasn't come because she forgot to tell Louella about the extra milk because Grandmas Grandma's birthday is to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow and so on and on until she has covered with a thick coating of worry every possible duty or situation situation situation sit sit- that the day is likely to develop Naturally after 15 minutes of this she gets up tired and her voice is a whine Millions of American American Amer Amer- ican women women must be habitual whiners whiners whiners ers because I notice that in many of the soap serials the heroines almost incessantly whine Sunday Big Sister Helen Trent Stella rarely rarely rarely rare rare- ly raise their voices above a n pained note of complaint and fear and listeners lis us- us seem Ito to like it that way If It the worrying woman could get it through her head that worry is weakness and that she chooses it and that circumstances have little I to do with it she might perhaps learn what a neighbor of mine learned painfully some years ago Chronic Anxiety She was in m such a state of chronic anxiety that one day her longsuffering suf long fering husband said mildly Helena will you use your handkerchief hand kerchief dear i What said Helena aghast as I we all are when so humiliating a reminder is made I Oh no no he said laughing Your nose is all right but when Isay J I I say that to you in future it will willi mean you are making yourself sick over something that doesn't in the least concern you or at least that II you cannot change Or else something something something some some- thing that may never happen Do you mind Of course she minded terribly and she looked at her children for support against this preposterous idea But the year old boy laughed and said keep you busy Dad and the little girl added innocently do it all the times Dad isn't here |