The morning times., 1895-07-07
Girls, Don't Get the Blues
Whatever You Do
They Spoil Your Looks, and, Besides if You Can't
Get the Moon 1t Is Not Sensible
to Cry for 1t.

the reading and working again until tired
nature asserts itself and sleep comes with
out any wooing.
Occupy yourself during the daytime. II
there is nothing else 10 do, go for a walk.
Not just around Il couple or blocks. Take
a reallong walk-outinthec country you can.
The sight OF the fields and great open
breathing spaces will do you good. That
sleeplessness may last for q little time,
but you can overcome it, if you will make
up your mind to the task
There is an old fairy tale to the effect
that long ago little prince cried for the
moon He made dreadful to do about it,
and gave no end of trouble to his courtiers
and attendants because he could not have
that moon. But finally he had to content
himself as best he might without the
moon, seeing that not even for his royal
pleasure was it to be secured.
WE ALL WANT THE MOON
We are each and all of us at times like
that little prince. We each want the moon,
but we don't get it, and therefore the less
said about IT the better. We have the COM
fort OF knowing that in the end the less
noise we make about it, the less fools we
make of ourselves
Give your energies an active outlet.
Don't sit iii some dark corner of the
house and get your handkerchief damp
oHN PSfPS 'cPPiAiB up ASeAio' 'O ON'" ~
out OF doors. Go out in the yard, If you
happen TO have one. Make a garden and
tend 10 1t so that the plants you put in
VIII really grow. There is an immense
amount of satisfaction in tending gar
den. Don't get somebody else to do the
digging and all the hard work. Do that
yourself 1t is what you need. 1t is just
what is going 10 do you good.
Get your hands dirty. Don't stop to
put on gloves; that is finicky, and what
you want TO avoid is the least approach
to pessimism. Get your hands dirty-there
is plenty OF soap and water in the world,
and washing the dirt off again will do you
good. Cold water is a wonderful bracer
at times If properly applied. Don't be
afraid of 1t any more than Of the work
Watching the growth OF plants that
you have set out, looking for the first
signs OF bloom, keeping the garden weeded
and the vines III order is about as inter
csting work as the average girl Will find
for the summcs If you have not yard
in which such work viii be practicable,
then set up flower garden in a window
box, or even in several flower pots. Try
| the experiment once, and its efficacy as
q distractor OF disagreeable thoughts viii
be found to be wonderful
One bright girl, who had set her heart
upon a certain moon that she could not
! have, finally recognized the fact and,
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| family miserable undertook the cOnse-
| quence TO make the entire family happy.
| The manner in which she did this was to
! arm herself with q spade and, after dig
| ging up large patch OF ground entirely
| by her own efforts, planted it with corn,
| potatoes, and the small vegetables easiest
! to raise for the table.
DO WITHOUT CONFIDANTS.
1t took some time to do all this. The job
! lasted, indeed, through the entire summer,
as there was always something to do in
attending to the young farm, but it re-
warded the efforts expended thereon,
for the family table was kept supplied with
fresh vegetables during the summer months,
and when the autumn came there was
surplus of potatoes to stow away fol
| winter use.
The work accomplished its purpose at
! the same time, for the open, out-of-door,
active life induced a new train OF thought,
| aroused ne W interests, and kept down that
horrible pain III the heart that had, at
the outset OF the task, threatened to ami
| hilate health and reason The whole neigh
borhood became interested, in fact, over
that brave girls kitchen garden. But
no one ever dreamed of the real TeasoI
for its being started. There was no need
of a confidant. That dangerous phase of
such cases was altogether eliminated by
! the ACTIVITY OIL the IHyslCdl forces.
And now just one great big, last don't
Don't have confidants. If you must talk
talk to yourself. Emulate the example of
the canine species-bay at the moon
Hang out of your own back window, ol
the front one. as the case maybe, and bay at
the moon. Whisper all the foolish and
heartbrOken things you may desire at the
moon. Then there will be nothing to repent
of when the morning comes.
Always remember thathearts dontbreak.
Hearts are tough things in reality. They
and the eyeballs are the toughest portions
of ones anatomy. They rarely, if ever,
break. There are few medical instances
to the contrary. but they are so very few as
! not worthy to be considered in the suming
up of the case.
Take that dose of common sense recon-
menled and then work work with all your
might and main at whatever offers, don't
allow yourself TO get bilious, keep the liver
active. eyenifthe moseh eheroicmeasureshave
to be resorted TO in order to accomplish
this, and the result will be that you andn
the heartaches will conquer every time.
GLORIANA GADAB0UT