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Show WITH OURSELVES I know a business man, a spb-ndid fellow, who is so good natured, so easy going that he allows himself to he interrupted in his office during the entire day by friends and other rail- j ers He does not like tb offend them 'by refusing to see them and once thO) , gain entrance to his private office they chat and visit while he inwardly i frets and stews at the loss of tune realizing that another day will soon bo ovcr without his having done anything worth while. This Is just getting to the subject; I wish to spiel about Any person, man or woman, who allows the days to be frittered away and who Is the, victim of every caller and does notj I protect his or her creative ability, will never do great things either in the business world or in the home Jusl stop to estimate the tremendous tremen-dous difference between where you are today, what you have accomplished, and what you might have done had you managed the expenditure of your lime You should guard vour life energy, en-ergy, inrn off the poer and not illow , It to run lo waste through the sluice 'ways of worry and anxiety, until you reach the point of rising in the morn ing with dulled faculties and goinc to your work with jaded nerves. Wo save our nlckles and dimes, but .ling aw.-H dollars worth of precious energy through our careless habits our dawdling and idling Let gel down to consersing our energy am' therefore make ourselves equal to the I daily tasks. D nil to mo - n.ver beautiful and f cannot make It so even when I he- I 1 hold those I love best in its embrace I If I had said this to my grievin? i i mother, I think perhaps It would have j hroken her heart, so I went with her. I "Katherlne," sho said as slip looked ep from where she was bending over th? casket, here lies my life as well as his j For twenty -fTvc years I do not belie I I have had a thought In which your : father did nojt enter. My whole cxlst-, cxlst-, cnee meant only him and mv deer von will forgive me. If I make the con-j con-j fession I should have bated to have j bad to make the choice between yon two." I clasped the little trembling forii of Lmy mother in my srms i? I nald "Perhap?. dear that is th rei,.n that we all are grlven no choice in the mat-j mat-j ter of life and death. Fln'tO minds cannot rlsuallze beyond a rinite love. Today, mother dear, the modern woman I allows nothing to be bigger than life ! Itself at least so it seems to me. I "Do not misunderstand me," I hastened j to add. as I felt my mother's wonderin? ; eyes "-me.tioninc me. and knew she was asking who this stranger was that she called child who this woman was who could put anything beyond the love o" her husband. "Do not BfllsundeTstan t tr.e. clear." f repented. I do not mean that there are not times and places where one should not give her life for another, if need be. But I think In most cases this Is purely the climax of an emotional emotion-al thrill, and I have come to belleva ihat except In exceptional cases it Is braVer t live than to die Yes. brevci Sometimes to let the other one di?. vVn cue might have saved hi n at -r.; r nse of one's own life," My mother looked at me In wonder 1 To her love was all and f, with a litt! I shutfili r. took a firmer gi ip upon my-j my-j se f as I realized that to mc life was j not t U. "Katherlne." said my mother with I !g:oit anxiety, "don't you love your hu-' I band'"' "Yes mother." I think T lo e him u ' much as l am capable of loving, certainly , he attracts me more than any other man j I have ever known I think perhaps that 1 should he suffer as father did I should ; take care of him in Just the same way 1 as you did. and would grow to feet thai be was the one object of my life. "Rut, m dear, sweet little mother. ! unless one have Just the life that you and fulhcr hsd, r do not believe it Is possible to have the oneness which ( spoken of in the marriage cercmon; . Modern life is too complex, and women i have grown to understand that they, are i omcthlng more than m-n's pla -things o: men's servants. A woman no longer feels that when a man eov- i Ors ht.r with Jewels that he is giving ( them onlj for her gratification Some of the faddest and most dissatisfied face's 1 hJiVd v-;r seen have hocn those f '. o.iK.n v host fingers and forms weal covered with Jewels." Mother Clutched ine with cold fingers t 'Katherinie. Catherine, yiu must not talk this way' If you let your thoughts run In this dlrertion you are laying tor yourself the foundation of great unhap pincfis!" ' What is one Roing to do. mother deal H modern thought and modern edu-eution edu-eution have convinced woman that she is a human being after all? And looking look-ing about me, I am afraid that this I knowledge has not brought any more iiappilfess to other women than it nas to ne." "I don't understand you at all," sn'd I mother. "That's the trouble.'' 1 answered ! That's the troull' with all the present day women we arc Just finding ourselves." our-selves." C 'i.'i. '. r d tomorow.) on i |