Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-06

Why do we rise from the
M matutinal- meal, with a cor
w rugated ruff1e across our ala
baster brows, fit hastily up
stairs, answer in an absent-minded man
ner hubbys hints to this being a poor
season, giving him a Huh which should,
if he is intelligent, go far to persuade
him that his dear ones mind is else
where and leave the house with the ad-
monition that the children's luncheon
must be ready on time, and that dinner
should be served-the final chord of this
melody dying, broken. on the strings?
Why when the Christmas spirit is
abroad and busy as can be depicting
fathers pocket book-when the family
comes home from the summer resort with
the skin all peeled off its assorted noses
and every wardrobe dropping in rags
off the blstered back of its owner-when
it's so cold that a person hasn't thing
that's warm enough to wear. and when
it's so warm that one could never be
expected to put on ones frocks. they are
so distressingly heavy-why Is 1t that at
these and many, many otner seasons essH
Of the gladstone year the air is full OF
weird and cryptic utteranceS, Skipping
nimbly from lip 40 lip in our street cars
and other familiar means of more or less
rapid transit
Observation-Disclosures antique
made with hobble-habit back and
straight neutrality-suspicious. OF irish, cut
en- coer-Bugarian Observation-Disclosures de
la suede
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Observation-Disclosures
There are some PEOPLE who declare that
we go shopping for the sheer JOY and
delight we feel in making a burden for
the clerks and proprietors of the various
emporiums of trade which We honor with
our patronage. And it is further stated
that if find it possible by this means
to add gray hair or two to those
already possessed by our beloved nus
bands. or even to deplete entirely the
hirsute adornmentS of those estlmable
gentlemen. it does not in the least de-
tract from our pleasure but on the con-
trary gives US the delightful feeling that
We have not lived in vain.
All such statements as these only go
to show the purely superficial view OF
things possessed by the party PROFOUND
ing them They indicate that this party
has gone through life looking on the out
side merely and that, therefore, no i'm
portance whatever should be attached to
them nor should they be lent the slightest
credence.
Why. then, do we go shopping?
sciously or unoonsciously. in search OF an
ideal.
This is. in fact. the pet occupation OF
every woman from the time when in
pink bingham sunbonnet and little
strapped slippers. she peers eagerly
through the fence and observes violets
in the back yard of the little boy next
door decides that they exceed in at
tractjyeness the striped grass planted
bv mother In the border at home, and
concludes to go and get them-violets,
seq She being far more the ideal flower
of girlhood anyway.
Ever the ideal looms before us, dim,
beautiful and hard to get at
We grab at it every day of our lives
clear from the strapped-slipper age to
the period when. from platform in
the Junetime, we inform a listening
world that beyond the Alps lies Italy,
or that some one has discovered a way
to produce, by the action of extreme
heat on alfalfa, the perfect ration
which nourishes and yet does not pro-
duce those evil tendencies to which
our civilization is liable.
The preliminary warm-ups having
heen thus completed. we get right out
into the world in businesslike effort
To find that elusive proposition we
yearn for so.
Thereafter we know no pause in our
search till we land in an ideal heaven
ly choir, directed by an ideal angel
with a perfectly ideal fit to his wings.
who sings songs that are ideally beauti-
full dreams of heavenly melody.
Between these periods we have gone
after the ideal husband, the ideal
career, the ideal child-if permitted the
ideal home and the ideal dietary sys-
tenn.
If we have not also followed an ideal
path of self culture we are in luck:
though. most likely, IL we haven't we
have been tormented by the convic-