The log cabin Democrat., 1909-12-01
ON NOT BEING
INDEPENDENT

| ing to be what he felt he was ex-
! pected to be, and could just accept
himself as he was-think of the time
one would have really to enjoy life!
The reason this great thought
! dawned on me-" explained the girl
/ who likes to talk, lis that when ! got
up this morning | felt lazy and NOR
/ tally yearned to skip my gymnastics
| that ! sternly writhe through twice
day You see I'm getting stout and
realize that nothing but stern, heroic,
! regular shaving will help me.
| Il had to argue with myself. | said
/ firmly: Now, you know perfectly well
| that those reducing exercises won't
/ do you ten cents worth of good if you
| are haphazard about them-it's the
! steady plugging away that counts!
IT'S dreadful to think that all my
| life I'll have to struggle that way!
| Why, | just long for a real legitimate
excuse to escape my duties, Talk
! about inheriting a fortune! If l could
wake up some morning and know |
| had a days freedom from those gym
nastics that | lOathe I'd go mad with
joy. Think how lovely it would be if
| could just comfortably grow fat and
nobody would be shocked, and | was
! just as goodlooking as though | were
thin and knew it didn't matter, Sim
ply because | realize the world will
think me a sight if | don't attain
sylphlikeness I'm doomed to struggle
on,
Then look at Daisy Greene, She
has such a desperately pretty face
that everybody says, Gracious, | ex-
rect people are just crazy over that
girl, She probably is the most popu
lar person in her crowd and has a
dozen proposals season. What's the
result? Why, poor Daisy, who is per
fectly simple and unassuming and
would far rather stay at home and
read novels or embroider centerpiecCs,
is wearing out her young days being a
belle because the world thinks she
should be, You needn't tell me that
girl isn't slave, Look at the way
she races about to theaters and
luncheons and dinners. She smiles,
smiles perpetually, and is always
keyed up to be charming and attrac-
tive-when she doesn't give plea
yune for the fact that her dance pro
gram is filled first and the papers call
her a social favorite.
She's bored to pieces by 1t all
She's just as much tied to tread
mill as | am with my gymnastics. and
there's no escape for her, either
Everybody has decided that she'll
make a brilliant marriage and be a
social leader, and she wouldn't dare
for her life marry man who wanted
to stay at home and read the paper
evenings and wear smoking jacket
for such a howl would arise about her
throwing herself away with all her
beauty and genius for the whirl of so
ciety, All because she knows what's
expected of her and bows to public
opinion!
Consider the way Mrs Updike
wears herself out endeayoring to
make her daughter grow up into what
she thinks Hazel ought to be instead
of what Hazel naturally is, Hazel is
lumpy, ordinary young person of IA,
who has no taste Tor the artistic ana
no gift or charm Shed De perfectly
conteat to be LETT IN corner ana NOT
bothered all the rest OF heF ne III
fact' mats the only role sie MAKE
success OF, Yet her mo'her Is
miserable ana makes iiaZel nllSelap'e
by eternally eoauihs her on 10 Snlne'
putting her IN an exclusive Schooi 10
make proper frlenuS Wheh she can |
make friends any more thah she can
| pick Mars out OF the SKY 10 TRIM
nat, chaslhE her TO her freilch les
sons standing over heF IKE ilonu-
! meht WINE she tortures 'he piano IN,
slstihs on her painting dreaulu'
things MAKING her 90 clumsy ah.'cS
at dancing school' Keeping at her
| grimiy.
IT would be pathetc II II WASH
so rldicuIons why can she accept
iiaHei Tor what lia@el nd,ui"Hy Is
ana let 1t go at t"at' 9i'e nave 'o's
more tlile 10 ENJOY me anu IiaHe
would nave some peace hut she Is
haunted by the Kho"'euse Oh "I'a'
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