Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-08-11 | Page 26 | Learn to Play

LEARN TO PLAY jjpxi LL work and no play makes Jill 1 a dull girl quite as truly as it SJII makes brother Jack a dull boy. There Is a long list of women who havo dropped the play factor fac-tor from their lives. Some are young young enough to know better, and some are old old enough to realize the folly of doing this. A play campaign cam-paign for women would bo a great thing. Life as a rule gets hard after wo slip out of young girlhood. Women aro sensitive and Inclined to Introspection Intro-spection We4draw into ourselves. We lose the desire for jolly contact with people that was an unconscious part of us when in the first flush of youth tho world seemed mado for us. We were not afraid Of it then becauso it had not made us suffer. It is when we get older and blows come and tho complexities of life assert themselves, that our spirit draws to cloister. Then it is that we begin giving up good times a most precious something that our spirit needs to keep it sane and brave. A certain married woman said that she made a vow with her marrlago vows that sho would never let anything any-thing prevent her having good times regularly with her husband. It has taken a great deal of character at times for her to hold to her vow. Her homo has not been richly blessed with worldly poods. Yot becauBO she be- gan her married lifo with tho habit of normal good times and never through thick and thin would abandon this idea, seeing no virtue in doing so as most women do tho habit became his as well. Every week ho gives her a time that she can look forward to in which to have one of her "jollifications "jollifica-tions have been the greatest source of refreshment to him that they havo kept up his spirits for his work to a remarkable degree. Their little spree3 are usually of the simplest character, but dull care is banished from them with a firm hand.