Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-06-16
PATRICIA'S
PHILOSOPHY

at will do you good"
''I've been thinking went on Silvia
calmly, what an awful thing it must
be to be an unattached female"
l disdained to reply, so she con-
tinued:-
81 went to see Kitty yesterday.
found her in white negligee, her cur
ly black hair hanging over her shout
ders, her little face with it's big brown
eyes trimming over with mischief
What on earth did you drag me out
for to-day, Kit? l said. 1t was pour
ing rain. ooh, / was lonesome. Be
sides, 1 wanted to recover from the
| effects of 2usan Lemon in your en-
gaging company Susan Lemon!'
said. What a name!' Oh, l 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, 1, along with choice
collector of spirits, have been at
Bellies country place, and Susan, who
I believe is an old school friend of
! Belle, was one of the guests. But
what right has she to introduce to
lot of pleasure loving people a woman
of Sues makeup?
Zone guest whom she tried to culti-
vate had a 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, pathetically funny in her keen APP
| probation of creature comforts"
Nov, Patricia" said Silvia, tell
me what you make of any one like
that"
"To begin with" said "poor Susan
was probably dazed by being unexpect-
| eddy pitchforked into 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" 1 returned, at does seem
pathetic situation to me and as it
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,
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
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 all
most stupidity was probably an emo
ton which left her helpless in it's
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 your
right, physically and Intellectually,
had completely passed her by"
Dear mel" said Silvia, 'I don't be-
lieve 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"
81 will tell you why, Silvia. Every
now and then in life we are startled
| by the unexpected, and it is neces-
sary that we should be, in order for
us to understand something of the
law of universally and how we are
related to others. 1t is essential that
we should come in contact with every
phase Of living, and through knowI-
edge and understanding grow into a
larger and fuller life. And so it may
be. Silvia, that the advent OF Sue
Lemon into Bellies 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 a 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"
The Polite Motorman.
The car was full when she got in,