Show AN EDITORIAL BY I I IAN FLORENCE DAVIES t 1 DONT FREEZE FRIE TUAT WAY Who Vho doesn't remember the old dont don't taunt of ot childhood If U you look out your face tate will freeze that way Ivay 7 Utterly silly as sO er sor many of ot the sayIngs of ot childhood were It was the homely bomely threat that was as hurled burled at the pouting child or the youn young up cut up who was making faces face Even Iven children never ever took the threat very sery seriously But while the theold theold theold old warning was a IL good deal exaggerated exaggerated geraled It had a grain of ot truth In It Muscles and minds do get t from constant practice In one direction direction direction tion The chances are for Instance that Eta E Ei a really doesn't care by this time No one ona could Sass Sass- Sassor or sing I I dont don't care as a often Is as she has done without really be- be beginning beginning be beginning ginning not to careA care it pi itA A good food many start out a pose posa which they think Is clever or smart but which they dont don't really mean But It they keep tt it up long enough it gets to be part ot of them You all know the girl who isho ho starts out by putting on a few innocent airs She thinks Its It's Impressive t to tobe be lofty and exclusive lve But It if ehe he keeps kleps It up tip thirty finds her an In- In Insufferable In tn Insufferable sufferable snob and a terrible bore boro She has ceased to be r real al But of ot all the poses perhaps the most destructive e is th the e pose ot of 0 Theres There's a reporter named Barry for Instance Berry the picturesque and cynical He Ha dedd decided d years ago that life was a it total loss that noth- noth nothIng nothIng lag Ing mattered that he was superior to the things that appeal to ordinary ordinary ordinary nary people An Aa unfortunate mar mar- martlage mar which isa was as soon ended taught him once ence and for all that omen were false lo 10 lose e was wu a delusion and no r real nl effort was waa north orth while Barry probably thought the pose as as smart at first But now he has kept it iii up so 50 long that It has bas be- be become be become come coniC a part of ot him with the result that Darry's Barrys usefulness Is cut In two No Xo one would ask aak him to d do anythIng that took any real effort Ito 1 one would risk his sneer young oung are always as a ot of enthusiasms afraid they thoy will Beora seem and unsophisticated And so they assume assume as- as sume ume some of ot them a haughty In- In Indifference Indifference in indifference difference That's Thata a a dangerous pose to play with The world has no time for tor peo- peo people peo people plo who dont don't bellevo believe In It It If you want something done clone who ho would you nak aak to do It Some one w o scoffed at the undertaking o or somo one who was on tIre tiro Ire with nith enthus- enthus enthusiasm la enthus-la hum m We smile a it little at the ell ep- en enthusiasts bu but when v we ste e want nant some some- something thing i-thing thing done wo no e like to call on them Theres There's enough boredom In life without cultivating It enough dull dull- dullness dullness dull dullness ness and nod lethar lethargy People who win are people eople who bellevo believe In what they lire are doing and who arent aren't In the least ashamed of ot it So If you must assume a pose dont don't let lot that hand care dont don't pose pose-be pose be the one oneto oneto oneto to freeze that way as M the chit chil children urea dren used to say aay |