| Show HOW BOW WOMEN CAN K KEEP YOUNG YOUN afi R resignation e s i g n aaion greatest foe to health and youths youth I 1 11 I 1 by angola angela morgan P women if you want to progress it if you want vant to keep heep young useful and alive it if you oil want your interest in ili life to increase instead of to diminish with the years dont become resigned of all the toes foes to happiness usefulness health and youth resignation 13 among the most deadly there is nothing that will more quickly rob life of zest and meaning than the attitude of resignation thero there is nothing that thai will more surely p paralyze ar a womans comans mental and spiritual powers narrow her horizon and destroy the best that Is in her than being heavily hopelessly Te resigned signed to what is undesirable there Is one kind of resignation that Is beautiful because necessary and right thom there o Is another kind hind that Is not beautiful because unnecessary and not right tho the first consists in cheerfully adjusting ones self to fo dut tes les and demands deni ands that aro a part of ones life work and not to be evaded the second consists in supinely accepting undesirable hampering blighting conditions as inevitable and perma nent simply because one has not the faith the daring the spiritual enterprise to seek a way out or else one permits the limitations and beliefs of others to regulate her life and Is fearful of believing hoping acting positively for herself and there Is all the difference in the world between these two attitudes as to the actual results produced in ones life it is lys possible sible to be resigned and yet not resigned no matter how necessary how right it is that a woman adjust herself to certain difficult ana unfavorable circumstances she should never commit the error aror of settling mottling into the deadening belief that these conditions will not change that there will never be a way out for her nor Is there any reason why a woman should accept as unavoidable tho restrictions and handicaps handicap that other women experience because such evils are usual it is the thoughts wo we hold the suggestions wo we give ourselves that determine what our it conditions shall be to become resigned to evil and suffering and tation because we see them as qs the experience of others is Igno ignorant ranC and su suicidal in the matter of ago age the difference in mental attitude very speedily shows itself the woman who becomes resigned to the thought of fading charms and waning powers will become settled and gray long jong before her time while the woman who combats age or who keeps herself mentally rn antal and spiritually so active that sho she has no time to 40 consider jt it young buoyant and aspiring no mat neat ter how long she lives I 1 know a woman of 35 or thereabouts who at the ago age of 28 resigned herself to the belief that she was an old maid and that the future before her was bound to be gray hopeless full of drudgery and disappointment thereafter all her plans her alms her ideals deals were shaped and colored according to that belief it was not long before old maid stamped ped itself upon her person her manner and all her modes of activity every feature showed the image phe fhe was holding in mind As she thought in her heart so PO was she and so did everybody regard her today she Is old ill faded useless a burden upon relatives I 1 know another woman of the same age who had not one whit the addan tage of the first so far as looks physical constitution and mental equipment was concerned at af tho the same time that this other was stamping old maid all over her mind and her conditions the other was vigorously pushing forward in various enterprises that kept mind and spirit positively interested and wide awake she did not give the advancing years a thought except to welcome the now new experiences experience for growth and knowledge that time brought her ideals were youth ful fill happy glowing she was always looking forward with faith hope expectation pec tation of good and that good has come to her she is a radiant type of womanhood she has advanced intellectually and spir ritually until she is an individual well worth knowing she has attracted love esteem friendship and can have her choice so far as matrimony is concerned the difference in theo two women consisted simply imply in their difference of mental attitude one was resigned the other would not be women steer clear of resignation keep your faces turned toward youth and hope and achievement keep on oil aiming aspiring believing it is only when we are looking forward only when we are pushing on with faith and courage and daring that we are kept in the path of real happiness and progress |
