East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-18

A LITTLE SERMON ON
HOME MADE HAPPINESS.

Don't see snakesl"

| ION see SnakeS!'
"What-t? gasped the National So
ciety OF Ohio Women, says the New
York Tribune. 1t was at the Waldorf
Astoria. and the Ohio Women had
dropped in, between shopping and
luncheon, to hear Mrs. Mildred Man
! ley Caldwell talk about how to be
happy though living, and also-more
especially-how to be beautiful.
by snakes mean all the ugly
things in llfe," the lecturer explained,
and the women sat back in their
chairs again. II met woman last
summer who hated to look at the
mountains, because-fancy! she
couldn't help thinking OF the snakes
that were going up and down them.
Now some women go through life like
that. A person can't do a nice thing
for them but they begin to wonder.
Now, what did she do that for?'-
always looking for motives, and inn
agining mean ones-always seeing
snakesw
Then Mrs. Caldwell talked about
how to be beautiful, and the audience
sat up and took notice
Don't go to the beauty doctor and
have darts and gussets cut in your
face" she adjured them "Just press
the right thought key, and a flood of
beauty will pour right out from your
soul. Far be it from me to blame
women who have lived such lives that
they have to spend all their time and
money on beauty doctors. but, oh, re-
member, that thought, thought molds
the body, Think in curves! Develop
in curves. Why, even the gawkiest.
most angular woman can get to be
one OF the curviest. Bernhardt has
proven it.
DO you know that your stomach
slumps from two to
four inches in your body if you make
a practice of worrying and fretting.
First your mouth droops till you can't
lift the corners Of it. Your chin gets
big-oh, you're anything but an inn
pressive picture then. But worse |
comes. Your stomach slumps and |
coils up on itself. and your diaphram
sort of falls on your stomach and your
stomach gets irritated and creates
poisonous gasses. Then your heart |
feels as If it were giving out, and you
say, oh, don't know what's the
matter: l can't climb these stairs
must have heart disease Heart!
Legs are TO climb stairs with. and
poor misguided women think they've
got to pull themselves up with their
hearts.
stop playing dirges inside your
selves. Tuck your abdomen back in
70 the right places; don't worry and
you'll be all right"
Then the lecturer described a few
different kinds of snobs, and gave
hem what for.
There are the people who think
hat. to be born between Wall street
md Forsy-second street makes you an
lristocrat," she observed. why. the
point isn't 'Arn't you a Knickerbock-
,r?' but, What kind of a Knicker-
,ocker are you?' It's like this nom
ense about accents. You go to Lon
lon and there are people who tell you
hat you aren't educated because you
haven't got an English accent. Why
sn't an Ohio accent, or an Omaha ac-
,ent, or a Chicago accent, as good as
IN English accent? People tell me I
oil my RS. / know l do, and I'm
dad of it. You don't need an English
lccent to save a person in danger or
omfort a sick friend. Its courage
nd kindness that matter
II met another kind of snob the
ther day She was boasting Of the
anguages she knew. 1t was Yes, l
cad German and oh, know
french very WELL etc. l tell you II
ne is a fool in pain American. one
an bea fool in all those other lam
uages, too"