The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-01
NO HAPPINESS
WITHOUT WORK
Mrs. Susan Brown. Well and Active
at lo2, Says Lazinsss is Besetting
Sin of Present Generation.

A dear little old lady. with silvery
hair and cfear blue eyes and the. gen
tie manners OF century ago. sits IN
o big comfortable arm chair In the
home OF her daughter. Mrs. Lawrence
Wilson. No. 957 Twelfth-st.. ready 70
extend the hearRiest welcome to the
new year. the one-hundred and third
OF her life. Mrs. Susan Brown IL her
name. and she Is q notable example
Of the oft-proved saying that cheeri.
ness OF spirit. activity OF body and
cleanness OF mind are conducive 10
longevity.
What's the matter with the pres
ent generation that they are always
talking about this bad old worldg'
asked Mrs. Brown rs she deity sewed
patches for quilt. her biue eyes un-
aided by glasses. and the stitches
showing as fine and even as though
done by young girl "Of course. there
Is a great deal OF Welcomes. but
there is also very great deal OF
goodness. and IL is best TO think only
OF the good things OF life. IL makes
one much happier to be CHEEKY and
sweet-tempered. have lived a long
time in this old world and | think IL
Is pretty good place.
Il have no patience with people who
do not try To make the best OF things
The Lord never meant that We should
always have smooth sailing. The
trouble is. the men and women OF to
day are pampered too much and want
10 have wealth and ease without work.
ing for II. When | was a girl each
OF US had our appointed tasks. Why
when | came to Canada from England
in 1882. | had a husband and a good
start on my family of 16 children. We
went to live on a farm near Cornwall
Ont, later removing TO Millbrook
about nine miles from Peterboro. Ont.
and did all my own work for my
family and the farm hands. baked
sewed and carried my produce To
market. Everybody In Peterboru
knew Susan Browns butter.
In those days farming was not the
easy life 1t is now. Our lives were
simple because our wants were few,
We we're happy In our work and love
for each other. l tell you. there Is
no love or companionship like that
of a good husband" and tears were
quietly wiped away from the blus
eyes as Mrs. Brown referred to her
former companion. who died 16 years
ago. after a happy welded life of rs
years.
my dear children have been a great
comfort to me-" she went on. patting
her devoted daughters hand affection
ately. I'VE have been a happy and
a united family. No divorce for Us.
That Is terrible thing. divorce. Much
of the domestic trouble results from
hasty words and Bad temper. When
you feel like talking back In a family
spat. don't Just hold your lips tight
and. in a minute or two. the angry
retort is gone and the day saved. II
I had a bad husband, would not rush
to a divorce court. No! No! would
just quietly leave him. but never take
another husband. No. No"
Mrs. Browns intellect Is unimpair-
ed despite her great age. and she Is
keenly alert TO all questions of the
day. She believes that women should
vote, because she thinks 1t Is due the
children of the land that mothers
should have voice IN making the
laws.
''In some other respects the women
and children OF today are permitted
too much freedom" declared Mrs.
Brown. Parents should be more
strict about letting their children go
out and where to let them go, and IL
a mother Is not good example TO
them In this regard what can she ex-
pect7 Nowadays, women don {