The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-04
WOMEN OVERDO 1T
WE ARE BECOMING A PEOPLE
OF HARD-RIDDEN FADS.
One Of the Chief Dangers of the
Age--Too Many Theories Of Life
The Food Faddist at Fault.
BY Roxanna Queen.

THAT poor child was washed into
heaven" said a witty woman when
hearing of the death Of a friends
young daughter. THE mother was
a believer in cleanliness and little
Susanne was the victim.
The youngster was always put
in the tub morning, noon, and night,
and many is the day I've known her
to have four or five baths. She was
a peaky little thing, sick half the
time, but the doctors could not make
her mother realize that keeping the
pores open did not mean an orgy
of bathing"
The chief danger of the age is
OVERRIDING. We have so many theo-
ries of life that often we are worse
off than without any. An overdose
benefit is like an overlooked steak;
the best Is lost.
Few Of us realize the distinction
between a good thing and too good
thing, which is one cause that we are
becoming a people of hard-ridden
fads.
The woman who is too fat is told
to reduce. Now, reducing is all
right, but rapid flesh shedding is a
disease breeder. To reduce in mod
Grafton is we'll; to live for reducing
is virtue overdone.
Perhaps our fat friend is told to
exercise. Does she go in for a brisk
walk twice a day and gentle calls
themes morning and evening? Not
she. She walks until she is ready
to drop with fatigue, and bends,
turns and twists like an aspiring
contortionist until she loses her
good looks and good health along
with her flesh.
If dieting is the order she draws
no line between starving AMI pr",
dent eating; wrinkles and dyspepsia
follow.
A heightened waistline usually
means a belt dropped almost to her
knees in front and figure that is
a caricature in it's shortness of legs.
The food faddist is in special need
of learning that well done is not
overdone. Who has not been pes
tered with friends who, being told
that the hot water cure is the last
thing in cure-alls, treat themselves
like the tank of a locomotive, or
who sneer at beef-eaters when they
become nipped with vegetarianism.
1t is we'll to bring up children
carefully, it is OVERRIDING to bring
them up so carefully that their
young lives are made miserable by
rules and regulations. and they are
robbed of childhood's heritage of
rOmping.
The successes in life are not al
ways the boys and girls whose par
eNtG have advanced ideas in child
ira lining. Perfection forced into too
close range has a way of getting
distorted.
A mother with ultra views of de-
corum was Mortified to see her s.
year-old daughter smoke a cigarette
and dance d skirt dance for the
amusement of her friends the first
time she went unchaperoned. The
girl explained that was like a der
wish running amuck from an over
dose of goodness.
The sanitariums are full because
women do not seem able to learn
that to work is we'll; to overwork
is nervous prostration.
Tell an discriminating woman
that the polite hostess is never mat
tentive to her guests, and that Is the
house where the guest feels like
shrieking For heavens sake give
me a minute alone!" There's moth
ing more tiresome than overdone
hospitality.
The crank is usually the person
who overrides a good idea.
To make pleasant remarks means
popularity; to always make pleasant
remarks is sychophancy or insinoer-
ity.
Solid reading is good; never to
read anything In lighter vein is to
have brain with as few high lights
as silhouette.
To learn that we'll done is not
overdone is the surest safeguard
against life's excesses. Moderation
may not be exciting, but it wears
well.