Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-24 | Page 5 | Sub Rosa

'Everything in life has been disappointing disap-pointing to mc. Friends, husband, children, none of them have been what I expected they would be. I am ending end-ing a miserable existence." This note was found in the apartment of a woman who committed suicide in one of our great cities. Surely this was a sad outlook on Jife, yet a mistaken one as well. It doesn't do to expect too much of persons per-sons or circumstances. If wc do, quick disillusionment is sure to come. In this case one may as well wonder if the poor woman who found life such a great disappointment had herself been a model wife, mother, or friend, with the same attributes of perfection she was requiring in others in her associations associa-tions with them. Her own desperate failure at the end goes to prove that she had not. It's a v(uyecesary.JJ.ng.-tprJm Lhe microscope inward occasionally for our field of vision. Instead of con- jstantly finding shortcomings in our' 'daily associates and lacks in our daily ' environment why not get a bit outside ;of our own narrow sphere of life and ;see if vt ourselves, aro nol in .turn a wee bit disappointing at' times to those we live with, and if they may not-have not-have lo exercise patience and forbearance forbear-ance toward us. Lei's be fair you and I. We shall be j exceptional women, indeed, if, so doing, do-ing, wo can meditate with perfeel satis-; satis-; faction on the vision, it w;il be more I apt to fill our hearts with the sweet I virtue of humility and fire us with the desire to live more truly, patiently and wisely, instead of, in a gust of passion, pas-sion, departing by the suicide route to what ?