Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-08-03
Advice for Girls in Their Twenties.

VIII Fortune never come with both hands
full:
The most interesting period of girls
life is when she is passing from the teens
to the twenties,-SAe stands in the cen
ter of a highway: dozens of roads lead
from it, Which does she want to take =!
VIII the road she is destined to tread he
the one she likes best?
A girl of twenty is on the real thresh-
old of life. All the golden doors of the
future are ready to open. Perhaps she
is already engaged, though this is rather
pity for one so young. If not, she has
long since built the most wonderful cas-
ties in Spain about the lover who is to
come into her life some day. She has
dreamed of wifehood, motherhood and a
home of her own: has pictured unattain-
able happiness. and sailed among the
rose-coIored clouds of the morning of
life"
All happy girls have done these things
but some unimagInative young women
say they never passed through this rose
ate period in the early twenties. 1t seems
rather tragic, doesn't II:
At twenty life is very much like a Sc
rial story: the most exciting chapters.
those which include love affairs, court
shin ana marriage have Just begun.
There are tie dull intervals which re
semble the prosy pages in novel. then
come the thrilling incidents, new scenes
and experiences
And through all the life story what Of
| the herOinef How does she play her part
! Does she rise to the best that is III her
! in the Drama of every day-does she
| make the most of the opportunities which
! come 10 all Young people-doeS She till
up each minute of her day with interests,
| enthusiasm and experiences! Or does she
! let life ana all It's glorious possibilities
! crawl by like II stagnant stream which
never sounds its depths:
Thousands of girls spend all taeir best
| years-from the teens to the thirtieS-
Dlacidly expecting something to turn
| up" which will change their whole lives
! the coming of Prince Charming who
| will crown them queen. While they
dream the more practical girl goes OUT
into the world, lives every minute of her
| life and captures the prince. The other
girl sits. meanwhile. on the hillside, eat
| ing her heart ont in a weary waiting for
him to seek and claim her lovely hand
as he does in the fairy stories.
why didn't somebody tell me- How
was | to know says the girl who has
| waited too long and finds out her mis-
| take perhaps too late.
4 girl sometimes has an Hnworldly
| mother. who does not know that the
! conditions Of life have entirely changed
| since her young DAYS; or perhaps she act
! vises her daughter, but She is n willful
! girl bent on having her own way W.
should not be young il we didn't somc
| times make mistakes.
| Girls in their twenties should take ad
vantage Of every opportunity To learn
and see things.
! DO not be content always to slip down
! with the stream. Go upstream some
| times: face difficulties. and Overcome
/ them. \ girl who is afraid Of few
| thorns never plucks the roses.
| IAN sorts Of interesting things happ'i
| to her Nothing ever comes my way
| says one young woman of another. A. 20
rule, the girl to whom things happer
has gone out halfway 10 meet them.
Many young women are too ti,lid, to-
! half hearted and unnteresteG 10 attrat
/ interesting happenings Perhaps theg
make friends of the wrong people: B.
| splendid possibility comes along. STAR
! them in the face, begs them 10 tab, %
/ They pas sit by, give it Il dead cut. an'
! ii goes on to some more wIdeaWuke yir
who is keen, cnthusia site. and knows
! good thing wher she sees it.
| So many girls complain that they has
no chances: they see few people. haF.
/ few friends, and no opportunities To mar
| ry. Another girl, situated in exactly th'
/ same position. makes chances by Tie
! force Of her keen interest and sympatH.
! she manages to attract friends, and oft
marries well and happily when ever
| thing seems against her
! This is the sort of girl to Whom
things happen but il is not luck 7 ''
/ theory Of luck was invented by IS -
person to explain to the world why
F.! failed. Other lazy people adopted 81.
| idea. and millions of persons Waste the.
! entire lives waiting for fortune swine