Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-14
They Constitute the Morbid
Class That Keeps Fortune
Tellers Busy.
BY KATE MASTERsON.

AfNit bt1 EttiitS W i0 q
settled in a hopeless spell of joy
less routine, a woman is likely to think
hersellt wretchedly unhappy when the
! truth Of the matter is that conditions
nave formed a misty cloud of circum-
stances which shuts off light on the
real situation.
II of the saddest things that come
to Tight through the letters sent to
newspaper offices seeking advice is that
so many women suffer under various
IDEAS of trouble rather than real ar
fiction which is an entirely different
NATTER
Especially is this the case with the
one who fancies she is forgotten. dis
F@ed, martyr of circumstance betrayed
by false friends. hopeless and above
all unlucky, says the writer in the
Philadelphia Press.
Such women constitute the morbid
class that keep the c~lairvoyants and
Alne-tellers busy from morning I'M
l Emsa,. T Of ya 5sss p Ria snss an 5sa" ps s@a
Aakbled souls that they are, they ac-
'F"a1ly suffer from the spell of an evil
theyfhave conjured up themselves.
Busy, active women with husbands
and families to look after and hard
work making erds meet, rarely suffer
.frori these spells.
= widows and spinsters-the army of
9en who are alone in the world,
Sof them deep in successful bust
III AFFAIRS for eight or nine hours a
fre tie principal victims.
" aa'e normal and happy only
~ the work of the office md shop
Keeps their minds off themselves. Then
gloom settles down upon them an : they
ceasefto dwell OF their blessings, but
rather on the canker they fancy has
settled on. them-the lost friend or rela-
ive,iithe business venture gone wrong,
the achanges that have come from
brighter, better times,
Undoubtedly. conditions in business
and domestic life bring changes that
blight the spirit and take all the color
out of life without quite ranking among
the deep and terrible Affections.
Women especially suffer through the
hreaks that occur in their friendships.
They are not like men who in active
business life are never. at. a loss for
oompanionship. They find it more diff
fcult to form mountaineering and
lack 1.-The initiatiye-what might be
called the executive facility to branch
= out into new paths socially. and vir-
tuallyl create new circumstances
This is exactly what is necessary
when. certain phases of environment
press upon us and we go on weakly day
after day enduring conditions that
often, with one big wrench we could
oast,4off, going. on our way lightened
| OF afIoad that nothing blu custom
caused us to carry.
This remedy requires courage. but 1t
N is the only one to apply to certain cases
II that are written-sometimes blurred
with tears-yet when summed up dis
. passiohately-do not constitute a JUST
cause for the respondent states of mind
they cause.
one, interesting correspondent writes
1 of her terrible LONELINESS. She is d
widow, left with a houseful of charm
ing old furniture, rich with memories.
X She is a good hou5ekeeper and takes
a certain pride III keeping her home
.Np 10 the condition it would have MAIN
tined were her husband still living.
kShe has the usual dislike of hotel ano
Harding house life and this helps to
keep her chained to her surroundings