The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-25
Would You Live Your Life Over Again t,

To THE EDITOR or THg SUS-Sr: Strange
to tell. have heard raised lately in CONVERSE
lions among intelligent women the very
question asked by one signing talso sealing
and deliveringl himself AN Average Man,
in your Sunday edition: IF You could live
your life over again exactly as IL has been.
would you accept the chaDce?"
without exception all tho women to whom
I have heard this question put have said.
Yes, yes yes" very decidedly. after woman's
fashion. They have net all been successful
women materially and socially. as Mr.. Aver
age Mans friends seem to be. Two OF them
have fought with poverty for nearly fifty
years. one was mis- mated early In youth
and her best affections literally starved.
another II a chil6less wife. while still another
has entirely too many children for her physi-
cal and material well-beine. A sixth woman
had most unhappy childhood, being thor
oughly misunderstood by the mother who
should have entered into her child-spirit In
all Of it's original vasaries
But women cannot reason" We hear Mr..
Average Man say. and so what is her
opinion worth on this subject or any otheri"
Perhaps the rib-sex isn't much given over to
arriving at logical conclusions, but women
To- 10 be alive even Il they feel the tips Of comm
ails in their flesh. Here are the reasons
* ine ws% over ssan Saey hey
The Oldest and poorest Of them. who has
spent a life seemingly without charm, with
out LUXURY. almost without delicacy, said
Yes. I'd live my life over again 4 ! could:
with my nose 70 the ith all 1sSss
io sss &. s.s fer 4s
70 hear the birds sing and to get the fragrance
Of flowers and forests seas and mountains
Nature. with all her wondrous ways could
i've never had things like other, women,
.ald the second pGot woman; and I've I Lonsfn
my life I'd face all OF the doing without for
joy" said the third, the most unfortunate Of
my life fun q the tsns rs that hn are worth ,StH
gladly face ali OF the daily irritation Of spirit
and and, nerves land and body endured for years.
Hugo says thst the hTs, child is the oo On:
tinuation OF the last doll: answered .,S the
dren is impossible. believe him and ! can,
not even speak OF tha, disappSi i,d nr In
if s over l again for The sheer JOY Of being alive
love to watch the evolution Of this baby |
world Of ours. to see the unfolding Of the |
hum mind IL makes me crazy 10 think ] /
can't stay here and see what the next century |
will show in the way Of material and scientific
!fd live nv little life over again just to feel |
my heart beat faster with mother-love over |
each OF my dear troublesome seven. an
nornced the mother OF many.
And I'd live mine over aRain, with my L
nightmare OF a childhood. declared the last:
for the pleasure I'm getting now In self |
woman on a slim foundation To tell yop |
the truth" she admitted, Il think II would /
take two good long lives to make me amount
Mere material success. money and the
things that money will buv, and social rcsi- /
tion alone do not make life lvable, as Mr. /
" Average Man" and his friends seem 70 think /
~ IL not 20 he wondered at that all such i
should not wish for more than one life here /
THIS type usually seeks refuge in constant
shift OF so-ne They should ,hink less 81
Of influence and more Of GA. aristoTacy Of
HAPPINESS N every child born since the 4
day Of the Fd.n tree had b.en taught that
the inAin busness Of life 10 TO lie happy. and
that the only way 20 b. happy 10 To make
other. harry, NJ 'AvetAye Msg,s- men
differently on this Interesting suhject The
thing for them 90 do. sinas moot children, /
40 90 the Last thirty yeaTt say have been
thush, that II 10 Gin 90 be atsaluiels happy. 4
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sholy nnd personality. Which 10 poO'e name
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