Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-06-10
PATRICIA'S
PHILOSOPHY

Thinking
Keep it up, Silvia" l answered
cit will do you good"
I've been thinking" went on Silvia
calmly, what an awful thing it must
be to be an unattached female
| disdained to reply, so she con
tinued:-
Il went to see Kitty yesterday !
found her in a white negligee, her cur
ly black hair hanging over her Shout
ders, her little face with Its big brown
eyes trimming over with mischief.
What on earth did you drag me out
for to-day, Kits l said. 1t was pour
ing rain. "Oh, 1 was lonesome Be
sides, wanted to recover from the
| effects of Susan Lemon in your en-
gaging company Susan lemon l
said. What name.' Oh, christ
ened her that Kit said airily. She
| fits it to dot Her real name is
Mary Martin. For the last two weeks
as you know, l. along with q choice
| COLLECTION of spirits, have been at
Bellies country place, and Susan, who
| l believe Is an old school friend of
| Belle, was one Of the guests. But
what right has she to introduce to a
lot of pleasure loving people woman
of Sues makeup?
lone guest whom she tried to cult
vate had a sudden call to her coun-
try place; another congratulated Mu
riel Weston on having appendicitis
at the psychological moment and 60
| two 10 81 of
look after Sue. Why, she lost even
her own name! One woman came up
| to me at party and said desperately
Heavens, Kit. what is Sue Lemons
| real name?" There was something,
too, patheticaly funny in her keen APP
| probation Of creature comforts"
Now, Patricia" said Silvia, tell
me what you make Of any one like
| that"
Ito begin with" said, poor Susan
was probably dazed by being unexpect-
eddy pitchforked into a lot of Indians,
as they must all have seemed to her"
mo, she wasn't" interrupted Silvia,
'for Kit said she liked it, and if she
hadn't packed and strapped every va
riety of bag and trunk for her would
have been there yet"
SILVIA" | returned, ut does seem
a pathetic situation to me and as II
something had gone very wrong from
the beginning Of life for her. Chill
dren who are not encouraged in the
doing of kindly actions and the giving
out of love grow up in an atmosphere
Of repression which often colors their
whole after lives. Expression is the
one vital fact of life, and those who
do not learn that lesson early pay
dearly for it in after years. Probably
poor Sue Lemon found herself for the
first time in her life in an atmosphere
which meant real living to her starved
soul, and, as often happens, her being
was dumb, apparently unresponsive
az the mental vista of what she had
missed in life enrolled itself before
her. Women, Silvia. who, like most
of our mutual friends, have their in.
dividual places as workers in the
world very seldom gauge what sui
fering must be experienced by the
woman who suddenly comes face tc
face with the fact that she somehow
has not understood the great game OF
life-that it has apparently been
played without her having had hand
in it. And what you all took for al
most stupidity was probably an emo
ton which left her helpless in its
grip. Why, her very appreciation OF
the creature comforts showed starva
ton somewhere, and it must have
been hard for her to suddenly realize
that what you women took as you
right, physically and Intellectually
had completely passed her by"
Dear me-" said Silvia, II don't be
lieve Kit and Belle or the others evel
thought of that. They just found he
queer, and she dropped Oh them like
bolt from the blue. and they won
dered why"
q will tell you why, Silvia. Ever!
now and then in life we are startled
BY the unexpected, and 1t is neces
sary that We should be, in order TO
as to understand something of tn,
law of universally and how we ar,
related to others. 1t is essential tina
we should come in contact with ever.
phase of living, and through know
edge and understanding grow into
: larger and fuller life. And so it ma.
be, Silvia, that the advent of SUI
q Lemon into Bellies and kitty's dove
cote was just the thing they needed t.
awaken them to the fact that life i
bounded by more than what we SCI
ON our immediate horizon, and tina
peculiar as Sue was she was yet
part of related whole, there for
special purpose, and they in thei
: turn gave her new glimpse into tn
: Garden of Life and probably awakene
desire in her for the selfexpressiol
without which no soul can deyelo
into fullness OF being"
The Polite Motormsn