The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-09
H0w2To BE HAPPY ANYWHERE
Every Woman Carries Her Happiness
nth Her, If She Knows How
to Develop 1t.

sig sisn't, sometimes. and when she
So Il it is because she lacks adapta-
BIZ III The woman who cannot adapt
heolff to her surroundings is to be
pft w. Perhaps you think that the
woman that lacks adaptability is the
EXCEPTION, but I'm afraid she is the
rul4
The woman who marries an army
officF ought to know that there is
goiQ Nto be a great change in her life.
She hoes out to Fort X in Arizona,
and When she is indicted to the log
hut that is to be her home for a year
at least and perhaps for three her
heaIf goes down into her little boots
Theve are other women there, and they
assure her that she will soon get used
10 lsbut she refuses to believe in the
Iibility, and within three months
is Manning to take a trip home to
mother. OF course, he lets her go, but
dom you suppose he feels trifie dis
apAointed in his wife?
% hen there is the naval officers wife.
.4StAS NJ she know that naval officers
have to travel away at "a hours notice?
He must have told her that, and yet
when the order comes to go she tries to
delay him, and thus makes the part
ing ten times harder. Or suppose she
follows him to the China station, and
has to put up at HongKong or Yoko-
hama, where the manner of living is so
different from this country. There are
some women who find it rare fun and
drop right into oriental ways, because
they are adaptable, but the majority
pass their time in grooming, and when
hubby comes ashore, take up all his
shore leave wishing that he could be
removed to the Mediterranean squad
ron, or at least to the North Atlantic
OF course, he wishes so, too, but he is
under orders, and it would make it
much easier if she was as contented as
he tries to be.
Let me tell you little story of
frontier town. 1t was situated on the
northwestern frontier 25 years ago,
and, although now of considerable i'm
portancc, then numbered 300 souls, all
told. 1t was the terminus of a rail
road which brought in one train every
second day, but which did not run
any trains between October l and April
l because of the tremendous snow
drifts.
There was just 40 women in this town,
all married, and about six had children,
With the exception of four all these
women came from the east which in
frontier vocabulary means St. Paul
and anything east of that point. Their
husbands had come out west to grow
up with the country, and after years
experience had felt justified in going
east to claim the fulfillment of previ-
Gus engagement.
The brides were brought to this town
ia-the spring and had passed through
the summer very cheerfully. Then
came the first frosts of September, and
as the time drew near for the departure
of the last train their brows grew dark,
They looked forward with terror to six
months exclusion from the world they
had left | do not know what they said
but know what they did.
There were four women in town who
had been movers" as they call those
restless people who are always in the
advance of civilization, and of course
they STAYED. and there were two other
married woman who decided that il
their husbands could stand the eli
mate and the solitude so could they, but
every other woman took that last train
for the east. Now, don't you think all
these women might have adapted them
selves to their surroundings if they had
tried?
Think of the wife of missionary
He must go to the farthest points or
the globe, and she must go, too, Oh
course she knows in a general way that
she must encounter hardships and pri
vations, but you know you cant form
any but the faintest idea of place
from a written description, just as il
summer you can't really SILVER over {
story of arctic perils. So when she
actually is installed in hut with al
earth floor, with surroundings little
more than barbaric, you can't blame
her if her heart feels sick. And how
wretched she is going to be if she can
not train that heart to cease its re
| piningsl 1t is nonsense to think tina
any civilized woman can ever come tC
| prefer hut to a house, or the pres
| ence of savages to the society of Amer
| lea but she can make herself a philos
opher and extract fun, instruction ant
| even a modicum of comfort either a
the equator or. the pole.
If you will sit down and figure it on
| you will find that of all the things il
your house there are nine out of tel
| that you could do without if you haC
| to do so. The talent of adaptability il
| simply doing without these supertiui
| ties and not missing them-at least no
enough to fret about it. 1t is a very
| pleasant fate to not have to do with
| out anything you want, but when thu
times comes when you must, then MAKE
| up your mind to adapt yourself if yol
would be happy.-Effie Wybrant Smith
in Chicago Times Herald.
A Boston Innocent.
Mrs. Greene-They say that when tn
] l. hny fply In