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Show Sense of Proportion Distinguish Between Worth While Things and Trifles VHHSMBRHAPB you know her. If K J KB gfl you do not you are fortu-Kfl fortu-Kfl sgaM nate. She Is the woman MB y&-&i who know no fubjeot so JggJgSjijVV interesting as herself. Wars may come and wars m.iy go. empires may rise and wane, food conservation con-servation and war relief work may command com-mand thei attention of lesser souls than hers, but above and beyond and over all that she does and says is thrown the halo of her ego I THE BKi "I " i. She will tell you of her personal likes and dislikes, of her children and their likes and dislikes, of ncr servants and their shortcomings, of her home and Its embellishments, of her wishes, her discontents, dis-contents, but slways. whatever she talks about,' It comes back to herself and her personal feelings throug'j some devious wa y. Do not attempt to tell her of what you think, do not assume thit your children are attractive, that your servants also have their foibles, that your homo has its distractions, that you. too, nave a personal life that is interesting She will stvocp you aside on the wave of her egotism md will read another chapter out of her own experience". It may be that you are interested ln literature liter-ature and would like to speak of It she interrupts you to tell you of a friend of a friend's friend who once knew a man who wrote a book. You attempt to talk of the latest picture and she will launch IntD a story of the remarkable talent In teat line of her youngest hopeful. You tel. her of a remarkable re-markable lecture you ha- Just attended, but before you can finish she has swept you into the stream of her loquacity and you are hearing of the wonderful attributes attri-butes of her eldest son, wno will some day startle the world with his eloquence. It Is impossible to elude her family. She will bring them up and eet them before you and point out their perflations until you wish they were so ir.any ten pins and that vou might have the privilege of bowling them over and being done w ith It The woman woo knows nothing outaldo of her family circle is the most unmitigated unmiti-gated bore of the age and at leuat th-r.' Is one thing to be thankful for the number num-ber of her is decreasing. Other women are putting her In her place The in findlnc that the only thin? to do is to suppress ner. And th;y are accompllah-mc accompllah-mc this effectively. ' That is one of the JT'lcndld thlng3 this war Is doing for women It Is teaching them values They are beginning to realize real-ize that there are other people in the world equally important with themselves. They are eomlng to realize that life cannot be measured with a foot rule, that It cannot be measured at all, that :t Is so big, so vital, so teeming with opportunity, so overwhelmed In pain, o quickened with life, that no estimate can be put upon Its valt e. How, then, can they give attention atten-tion to the woman who sees, life only-through only-through the little peephole of her own personality ? If you know one of thrse women show her her place, give her some work to do. ; . . - . AVOID PERSONALITIES. If you are one of these women yoursell put a.sldc your Idle chatter, get out of your environment, get close to life and realize Its meaning. Do not think the sun rises and sets ln your little area, for It does not It rises and sets on a world .training In agony, a wcrld fraught with pain, a world sick with suffering. In such a world do you flunk trlflors have any pa rf The woman who gives nerself to-day to silly maundering about trifling nffolrs thould bo boycotted by .-.er friends Let her put aside personalities and get Into the work of the world anl learn to know-life know-life In Its larger sense. |