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Show BE CAREFUL OF HOBBIES. It is recognized as a good thing for people to have hobbies. This is particularly par-ticularly true with regard to women who have time to devote to some pet diversion. One woman may make flowers her hobby; another may study bird life, which Is most wonderful wonder-ful and engrossing. Another may become be-come fascinated with needlework. But whatever the hobby is, Its indulgence indul-gence is a fine tonic where the love of it Is genuine and without affection. The diversion is good for the mind It rests the brain, and consequently it is good for the nerves also. And i here is never monotony where one has a hobby. There is one feature of the hobby to be guarded against, however, that is, to see that it never becomes an obsepplon. Once a woman becomes immersed in a particular subject or work to the exclusion of everything else, she becomes plainly "freakish " I know of one case where a woman whose hobby was painting china, actually ac-tually lost the love of her husband and disrupted a home somply because she abandoned herself so thoroughly to her hobby that she gave no thought to anything else He floors were not swept, her linen was not clean, no thought was given to food or cleanli ness but every article of china In the house was decorated to perfection. perfec-tion. She knew nothing but china painting and talked nothing else. Has this woman stopped to realize that she was selfish in the extreme, without regard to the rights and convergences con-vergences of others, she probably would have moderated her enthusiasm enthusi-asm somewhat in pursuing her hobby So I sav, have hobbles by all means, but do not let the hobby ride you instead in-stead of you riding the hobby Do not let it be your one subject in con-versation, con-versation, for the person you may address may care nothing for china painting but may be enthusiastic over arctic lichens. Remember The things that interest inter-est one may be a bore and annoyance to others Do not be selfish. |