| Show Dorothy Dix T Talks I alk 11 WOMEN HAVE NO DEEPER SORROWS THAN MEN BUT PUT THEY THE HEY WEEP LOUDER AND LONGER AND OFTENER WHAT OFTENER WHAT A BLESSING IF THEY COULD LEARN TO TARE TAKE TAI E THEMSELVES LESS SERIOUSLY AND MORE CHEERFULLY DOROTHY DOROTHY DIX A A to 10 a recent cable dispatch a 1 school Is 13 to be started In Paris In which people will be taught how to laugh laush If ever there was a noble f philanthropic Institution founded and andone andone one that was calculated to fill a long hong longfelt felt w nt It Is II this for tor too long Ion have 1 we hawed haw like donkeys or 01 gig giggled by- by 4 like fools or wept like leaking faucets because we did not know how lc z to laugh BETTER ETTER a thousand times to teach girls and boys bos how to laugh than to teach them theta all the and Isms comprised In inthe the higher education For what science Is as nS valuable for to comprehend as the science I e i of ot extracting amusement from Irom even the dif dlf difficult cult situations of ot life Ute i What philosophy as helpful as I DOROTHY OIX that which enables us UI always to see seethe seethe seethe the humorous aspects of all all all' of our struggles and trials and disappointments What education as helpful as that which would teach us UI to meet every rebuff of fortune with a laugh For the man or woman who when downed In the struggle of existence can laugh and try again is Invincible j THE Pr lB 1 school of laughter ought to have every civilized community and a coulse couise in It should be made compulsory Espe Espe- Especially l dolly for lor girls There Th re Is no other thing on earth that women need so 10 much to know I now as how to laugh for It It is to womans woman's Inability to look at things from any side but the tragic one to which she owes most of ot her woes 1 I TAKING TAK T AKING It broad and long women really leally have bave no more and troubles and tribulations than men but women are much more mournful than men The great of life death Ute death blighted ambition and blasted hopes hopes are are sexless Those that a man loves lo are arc torn from his arms The desire of his soul falls fails and the labor of his life lire conies comes to naught lie He Is lonely lonel and heart art hungry just ns its often otten as a woman Is Also he lie is equally subject with woman to the minor Ills of or life There are Just as many man mean wives as there are mean husbands There are Just as many clerks who are aggravating aggra and Incompetent as there aro are cooks and aud housemaids Just as many tailors ruin coats coals as dressmakers spoil gowns Dut But there are not as many men who go around with mournful faces weeping w on everybody's neck who will stand for tor It and tolling their tale of ot woe to every e stranger that they can fix with their gilt gut guttering eye as there are women The reason is men have been taught to laugh and arid women When a group of men get together they tell each 1 other funny stories and thereby cheer each other up When hen women forgather they relate their misfortunes misfortunes' nd tell their symptoms and recall their major operations and burden their already depressed sisters with as much additional melan- melan melancholy melancholy melancholy choly as they can lay upon them Drills TIns T Is merely the result of the general belief bellet that a woman Is isborn I i. i born to sorrow Borrow as the sparks are to fly upward and that her business In life lite Is to weep Which is all nonsense There Is no sense In weeping It do dos clops s sno no good and as a general thing women have ha nothing to 10 weep about They should laugh but they rhey dont don't know how and that 1 is 13 why they need to be taught the art With the solitary exception of the death of those we love there Is hardly anything that has not its humorous aspect If It only we will wilt seek it It Life Lire eternally repeats repeals the old legend of the silver gold shield One side of everything is com corn comedy edy and the other tragedy and whether her we laugh at it or weep over it depends upon our point of view If we are determined to see ste the amusing side of things we can do it and women would add enormously to their hap happiness if it when they encounter the ordinary aggravations of oC existence enee they would tack around until they got a more cheerful fut view AU ALl A LI or of us have had bad the be experience of finding fin ln some situation ex cx t- t funny funn In remembrance that we wept barrels of tears over at the lie time lime We had 10 to live Jive with Aunt Sara whose ties were a thorn In the flesh when wo had to endure them lay day after J 1 day but that now form Corm the basis of our our most splitting side stories The time unexpected company came when the children were down with the measles and the cook had left and the delicatessen store stoie was closed on account acco nl of a holiday and when the dog do had hart stolen the bread the cat had bad got at the milk and the butcher forgot to bring the meat At the moment w we tore our hair and beat upon our breast and nd were dissolved In tears but In how we laugh at It II all And An l what a pity we could not enjoy our comedy of ot errors It was v-as happening If It a school of laughter can teach us to ta get such a per perspective on the tribulations of every day that we will be able abie to laugh at them instead of cry over them it will do a great missionary work And women will with b be its greatest beneficiaries for when women learn team to take themselves them cles less seriously and more cheerfully It will wilt inaugurate the millennium for tor them THE liE proof of this ibis Is to be found In the fact that women are never TIlE T 1 as ns much beloved belo and as successful either In the home or business as when they are smiling and natured good and have the ability to turn aside unpleasant happenings with a Joke And nothing can be surer than this that when women cease to weep so much they will have less to weep about DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger |
