Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS B 11 DOROTHY DI DIT the Iho lie Worlds World's PaM ril r il Woman V Writer riter r YOU CAN BEAR UP UNDER ANYTHING IF YOU HAVE THE BACKBONE TO CULTIVATE A the most important bit oC o philosophy ophy that we ever vcr acq ac at PERHAPS P q re la Ia when we e e learn earn not to tako uko ourselves and other people too se In n particular when we have gotten to te the pl place where we can see ourselves as a human hunan Joke we can snap our fingers in an the face of f fate We have achieved enT the gre great lt emancipation We are encased encased en- en encased T cased in n an armor against which thed the d slings and arrows of outrageous fortune fall back blunted bunted and broken We are tree free I t 3 s 1 ourI c We e do not nol have hae e to be on our I dignified because H guard to a a pose a we have hase ourselves m rn the fools fool s a mot motley ley e by choice choke 1 e do not hit hl e to make mart martra rs of ourselves being consistent be because cau cause e we ie frankly franly admit that we H se change our mInds mind as often octen as we ilo do 0 our clothe V i edo e edo do not have ha lo io pose as something we e are areno no not I because l TIC le o e ha hae have e never climbed up on onn onn n a pedestal Also we our family and friends of their favorite indoor amuse DOROTHY amuse DOROTHY DIX ment by confessing to our faults and acknowledging our peculiarities For there Is no pep In criticizing an Individual who Is amused at your sUbs stabs instead of wincing and weeping under them There Is I no fun in laughing at those these who laugh at themselves G sac saH saves us from from such aggravation allon ot or o as not to takeI take L ourselves too seriously There are no people so as thoe whose selfishness is a passion that consumes them Every ery moment ot or their lives is poisoned by the fear tear that thal they will not get all that Is coming to them Their presence at a dinner table their bing put on jut just the right commIttees committee their being 10 united to a II small party instead of ot a big one the size type trpe in 10 which their names name are printed in a newspaper are aret t orId shaking incidents to them A And d It H b chance we call caU such ane a ne ne captain when he is a co colonel lone or mistake Mrs Smith for tor Mrs Brown or spell a name namo wrongly or forget just what honorary letters ot of the alphabet go alter after It W we have made an enemy for life IlIe You can never explain to those who think they are the hub of the that the balance of the universe doesn't spend its Ifs is time watching how they revolve The only way to save your vanity from being continually wounded In a world that Is so busy getting there Itself th that t It doesn't notice whose toes it treads upon Is not to have any vanity If you dont don't think that you call for ary kowtowing from your fellow creatures or expect them to get out the band and beat upon the cymbals at your approach you will I find that most moat of the people you meet are ready to fall on your neck in sheer gratitude We all get so tired of the ego ego- egotists ego egotists i whom we have to be always fanning with hot air When we learn parn not to take ourselves too seriously we have found a panacea for trouble V 1 e no longer say hy by should my heart be torn with this gnet and loss oss Vh h should I be called upon to bear this heavy burden What hat have I I done that I I should be so afflicted But we say Wh Wb should 1 1 of all aU the ot or men and aull women In Ia the world be Immune from the common lot Why should I I be exempt front from SOllOW l my brothers and sisters weep Why by should not my soy back be bowed to the same load under which l others must stagger Vb Why should I be bo blessed aboe above abo e all others on earth T TAnd And the realization that thai we are just one oE or the great suffering sorrowing struggling mass silences the whine hInc on our lips and gives us to light fight on Instead or of r running up the white bIte hite flag lag of or surrender The greatest cross In life is live with lal lal 1111 and disagreeable people It takes less leu l ss grit and fortitude to meet a great gret crashing sorrow than it does to bear with patience and courage the fretting and nagging and complaining of some member of our own household They are the little pin pricks that drive you to despera desperation desperation tion and the only remedy for the situation is not to take them seriously and to try to get a humorous perspective on the he SIt SIt- SItuation sit situation S SA A AFTER FTER all aU a wife who tells a man twenty tl times a da dav for tor nL fort ears earB not to smoke In the sitting room because it scents up the carpet and who admonishes him at e e ever eer er meal not to eat the things h he likes because they are so bad for his stomach Is funny tunny So SoIs Sois Sola Is the husband who sho ho goes poking around In the and snoop snooping ng ngIn In the garbage pail and who l ho bo never falls to ak ask why his wife is wast wasting ing lag the bread and docan t pare the tho potatoes thinner Aunt Janes Jane's fussy little ways and Uncle Johns John's eccentricities about food are a scream So Is the way mother and father Cather hand out advice to their middle aged children about everything they do It lt Is having to endure wife's l Jfe's nagging and husbands husband's fault finding tault it Is having to put up with Aunt Jane s a whims and cater to Uncle Johns John's peculiarities and endure fathers father's and mothers mother's med meddling dUng that all aU the happiness out of oC o life for thousands of or and drives them to nervous prostration Their only hope Is just to lagh IS Instead of oC gnashing their teeth and to try to see their old men r r women of oC the sea as as figures of o fun Cun un instead ot of tortures a i For after all there is lots of tragedy that we can turn Js into farce If only we have enough backbone and i to do It it DOROTHY DOROTHr DIX I 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