The Mena weekly star., 1909-07-08
PATRICIA'S
 PHILOSOPHY

"Patricia,- said Silvia. I've beer thinking"--
 Keep it up. Silvia answered "it will do you good.-
 I've been thinking" went on Silvia calmly, what an awful thing it must be to be an unattached female"
 I disdained to reply. so she con tinued-
 T went to see Kitty yesterday. I found her in white negligee, her cur ly black hair hanging over her shoul ders, her little face with it's big brown eyes brimming over with mischief. What on earth did you drag me out for today. Kit? I said. It was pour ing rain. "Oh. was lonesome. Be sides, I wanted to recover from the effects of Susan Lemon in your en gazing company Susan Lemon!' said. What a namei' Oh, I christ ened her that, Kit said airily, She fits it to a dot. Her real name Is Mary Martin. For the last two weeks as you know, l. along with a choice collector of spirits, have been at Belle's country place, and Susan, who 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?
 One guest whom she trieI 10 culti. vate had sudden call to her coun- try place; another congratulated Mu- riel Weston on having appendicitis at the psychological moment and go ing to hospital instead of helping to look after Sue. Why, she lost even her own namei One woman came up to me at a party and said desperately Heavens, Kit, what is Sue Lemons real name?" There was something too, patheticaily funny in her keen ap preciation of creature comforts"
 Now, Patricia" said Silvia. tell me what you make of any one like that"
 ITO begin with" said, Door Susan was probably dazed by being unexpect edly pitchforked into a lot of Indians, as they must all have seemed to her. No, she wasn't" interrupted Silvia flor 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, it does seem a pathetic situation to me and as if something had gone very wrong from the beginning of life for her. Chil- 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 1t 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 unresponsfve, | as 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 suf- | fering must be experienced by the woman who suddenly comes face to l 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 1t. 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- | tion somewhere and 1t must have been hard for her to suddenly realize that what you women took as your right, physically and intellectually, had completely passed her by" Dear mel" said Silvia, T don't be- leve Kit and Belle or the others ever thought of that They just found her queer, and she dropped on them like a bolt from the blue, and they won dered why"
 q will tell you why, Silvia. Every now and then in life we are startled UI lnt uItAptAtCNf uhN tt so AS~OO sary that we should be, in order for us to understand something of the law of universally and how we are related to others. It is essential that we should come in contact with every phase of living. and through knowl- edge and understanding grow into a larger and fuller life. And so it may be. Silvia. that the advent of Sue Lemon into Belle's and Kitty's dove cote was just the thing they needed to awaken them to the fact that life is bounded by more than what we see on our immediate horizon, and that peculiar as Sue was she was yet a part of a related whole, there for a special purpose, and they in their turn gave her new glimpse into the Garden of Life and probably awakened a desire in her for the self-expression without which no soul can develop into fullness of being"
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