Show 4 44 4 I 1 AN EDITORIAL BY BYI J I FLORENCE DAVIES I 4 44 4 LEARNING LE TO ALIGHT In music In art art In poetry the rest restI Is I as a eloquent as the accent No pie pie- pic picture ture turo Is truly beautiful which has not Its it rest spaces no line of o poetry per per- perfect per perfect feet without Its Ita pause If It this Is true of oC art art why not DOt of oC life But do not Imagine for tor an instant that because a pause represents va- va va vacancy cancy canoy or silence It Is 15 always esy easy to achieve Sometimes It Is ii most moat difficult cult It must be bB hard to put things Into a picture you may fo toy say not hard to le leave ve empty spaces SPliCes hard to get words to me measure sure and rhyme hard l-ard to achieve Ibre a I bre breathing space CO In Inthe Inthe the the center of the line of oC poetry But that's lust just where you are ars mistaken for Its It's harder than you think Any actor knon kno knows knos s that declaiming his most moat stirring lines 1 Is 15 Infinitely easier than achieving a perfect exit But Its It's the thc pauso pause for Cor strength and beauty and perfection of performance Women especially need to learn that For It Is particularly hard for Cor them to pause to alight once In a while and andrest andrest andro rest t An aviator will toll tell you ou that It Is much easier to through through the air at a terrific rate of ot speed th than n to effect ef effect a safe gate and perfect landing But Buthe Buthe he ie will tell you too that stopping flopping Is as D Important u as a going The Tho woman who undertake more than thon she ahe can do and rushes through tho day dav without stopping to relax may maybo ho bo mayho maybo half proud of her tireless energy when she sho explains I Just got to going and I couldn t stop But 1 she ie Is making a mistake She would lie live with more effect It If she ahe would stop now and then close the tho thedoor thedoor door and close her eyes abut out light and sound and thought for half halt an hour That That's for tho the home woman Some of them like the baby robin are all wings wing and flutter and no poIse They ha have hae e never learned to alight hour Halt siestas are not so BO May easy for forthe forthe the business woman For her there 1 I is the long longer pause of the tho one-day one In seen aGun oven And It if that does dou not suffice the alternative of oC an occasional holi- holi holiday holi holiday day for which It if need be she sho may forfeit her stipend It will have been well ell spent pent It if It affords her time Ume to be bc alone to close her eyes yes to alight to retrieve her scattered forces I will wilt look unto the hills hili from Crom whence cometh my strength Slut But th prophet didn't lo look loc at them thorn from it 0 fut fast living flung train d 61 a rattling flivver He stood still and looked kV ard an far tar away And Into the very center ot of othis othia his being there came a new flew strength For heres here's another thing the artist still tell you No painter pt ever put pUts anything ot of o interest In the center of If othis his picture that point Is always ays left leU for one of ot the rest spaces You will find It so 80 too tOO Those Thoe rest sp space cea will wilt soon sup slip Into the tho erY of ot life lire and serve to the w hole 00 00 |