| Show I DOROTHY MX TALKS R It niX DIX the in World I 1 1 Won Write HOW MUCH PEACE AND COMFORT WED WE'D HAVE IF WED WE'D REC RECOGNIZE RECOGNIZE RE OURSELVES AS WE ARE AND MAKE THE BEST OF OUR BARGAINS THE T THE HE wisest bit of oC o philosophy that I e teaches us is to accept tb A inevitable able The Tho most Important thing thine e e ever er leal n le Is 1 to get 0 n numbers and nd abide In peace In the places place that tale fate has us In the tir scheme ot of things This Is I hard to t do We all feel fe l that We wv A ve ve a right to be headliners number numb r ones one and when we find that It is 5 twenty three for forc c ours there ther Is it gall and wormwood In our mouths and ind we w rend r nd the th air with our wails wail of protest But the th kicking against the prick 41 4 avails us u nothing except wounds in our shins shine I 4 i Halt Half of the th misery In the world comes from our to make the th best be t of our bargains such as they are and to get the comfort and happiness we w might find In the station In life litto I to which it has pleased heaven to call us t 7 j LL about us u we see ce the wreck ot of o people who i ALL were not satisfied to 10 be what hat nature Intended them to be or t to tn do the things the they were made to ix ii door or door to live lle in the environment In which they were ere placed The Tir carpenter has ha no pride nor pleasure In Ing a skilled CI Clansman and gives bp up his hi trade trad for tor some pi In which A lt h 3 Is a failure The man of ot ordinary ability Is not content to plod along alone and accumulate a modest fortune lie He H aspires to be a millionaire and becomes the predestined victim olget rich quick sharks shark Plain people are not willing to 11 e In their comfortable old homes among their their- old friends They rhey must buy a palace and move up among the fashionables where they tie lue lonely and snubbed So It goes toes anti and antie e e nuke mike for tor ourselves the shirt ot ol that tortures us The man who is married to a wife who has grown fat and grizzle headed and prosy makes himself miserable by dwelling forever on her lack of charm ch rm and his misfortune in being tied to a woman who no longer thrills him It never occurs to him to t look on the th ot other er side of the pie pie- picture pic picture ture and contemplate her virtues the virtues the faithfulness and loyalty W that nothing can shake th the devotion that would follow him through good and evil report the thrift that has enabled him to pile up a fortune and the Joy and comfort of possessing a super excellent t cook who cannot give notice and quit THE HE woman oman who Is it married to a man nina who ho is absorbed in his business THE T who Is lacking In sentiment and who ho is better at writing checks than at suIting t love lov letters bemoans her fato ato and herself a neglected and Ill III used wife Ife tie She might g t Just Juit as well be happy as miserable If she the could only make up her mind to accept her husband as he is and real real- realize ize ice th that lt he h is one of the men who say ay It with cash Instead of words and that a man who tolls toils like a slave slav to keep his wife soft and comfortable gives about the th best proof of devotion there is Also she might reflect that fIne fino fin houses and Paris PaTis clothes and cars and travel compensate for the th lack of a lot of flowery love making r FAND ND In like lUte manner the In woman who ho ho Is married to the man who is AND tender and considerate and companionable but who has no gift ot of money making Bikini has lIas 1 no need to ens en envy eny y her sister who Is wedded st to 10 d a money bag bac There Ther are ar mighty few marriages that do not offer a con consolation consolation prize e to those who ho ho are billing willine I to accept their husbands and lIves elves as they are Instead of ot demanding perfection ot or them Age which is womans woman's woman bitterest foe can also be robbed of its III terror by the woman who accepts it it is the effort to de de people into thinking she th is s thirty five Instead of five fifty it Is the strain of trying to appear young and gay Instead of set set- settled settled tIed and middle aged It is the semi starvation of trying to attain a willowy figure figur it ii i the th hair dye dy and the paint and the ex- ex exhausting ex exhausting effort effort of keeping up a perpetual camouflage that makes growing old an agonizing process to t women BUT B iUT UT hen hen they welcome age as a friend Instead of ot fighting I with It 1 as a foe Coe It H loses all of o its horrors NoI No woman I oman ever Or kno knows s the tb peace that thaI passes understanding until she sh gives elves up the th struggle to appear oung and lets out 1 her corset strings and puts on lo low heeled shoes that are bIg ble enough for tor her feet tet and oats eats cat what she lh likes and wears what hat she pleases because lse she kno knos know s that no man Is going coins to look at her he her twice tl and she doesn't care whether hether he be b does doe or not You can take the th sting ting out of poverty by simply accepting It There is a lot of fun and comfort and freedom In being I frankly poor The simple life is the easy life fe Plain food is better than made dishes A litti house is easier to keep than thana a 5 big house home FINE F pINE INE furniture tine fIne clothes clothe Involve endless work and worry When ou go Into society iou OU cannot choose your company nor avoid oll be beIng beIng Ing bOI Id I'd The man anti and I woman oman who ho hae have ha e a tiny house few lew belongings who do not bother about the th fashions fashion and who sho ho can pick their friends ha base hae e much to be thankful forThe for The poverty that galls Is the genteel that pretends to be riches It Is the poverty that tries to keep up with people with ten times Its it income that starves tarve Itself to give an occasIonal dinner that pulls down the blinds to hide hid de the worn place in inthe inthe inthe the carpet that is la tormented by the bill collector and that eats Its heart out In envy of the better off WHAT a a pity that we Ie e have hav not sense enough to quit kicking against VT the th pricks prick There Is 1 such stich peace and anti comfort when hen e w o surrender to the Inevitable DOROTHY DIX COP right 1924 by Public Ledger Company |
