The Yale expositor., 1911-11-02

about matters of some moment, about
books and plays and gardens and
happiness, and when they give to
these things all the time they deserve
there are no spare moments for lone
ly moaning. accompanied by shifts.
Exit the Day of the Tear.
There are in round numbers 10000
clubwomen in New York. Do you
suppose any of them will spot a lace
handkerchief with tear today? Not
one. How many of the bright-eyed
young business women-stenograph
ers, typewriters. clerks, Office assist
ants and all the others--do you i'm
agine will go to business this morn
ing wondering whether they will find
time for good cry during the day?
Not one, unless she is i'll. How many
OF the shopgirls on the east side and
in Brooklyn do you suppose will go
shifting to their work today? Not
one. They are too busy" ,
DR.. McNutt took a number of books
tom the top of her desk and dropped
one upon another with a slam.
There" she said, are seven anti
dotes for tears. If you want others.
there are the newspapers. I'm a
great believer in novels. rc1d lot
of them. They give me just the kind
OF mental thrill that is good for me.
A good. clean story without a prob
lem is a tonic.
IF | could put chauffeur novel in
the hands of some of our women who
still think there is something to weep
over in everyday life | believe could
shut off the flow of pals Of tears. All
of our young women read nowadays.
Take the girl just out of the office
She jumps into the novel yacht or
the novel automobile or climbs onto
the novel load OF hay and away she
goes. If she is in the novel yacht
she goes dancing over the waves of
the Sound and feels the cool spray in
her face. When night comes the
yacht puts in at Stamford or New
Haven and she goes to sleep and is
lulled TO pleasant dreams by the swish
OF the water. She slips on her cog
giles and goes spinning over the road
in the machine, her hair flying and
sights changing all along the way.
Reading That Has Helped.
"One thing about stories is that you
do not have to do any talking your
self. Writer'S have a way of making
people say just the thing that the
reader would like to say were she in
the book. That helps lot 1t doesn't
tire one. Unconsciously the reader
enters into the enjoyment OF the spirit
OF Wholesome adventure that runs
through the pages and it seems to be
real. You see it helps woman to
get into new atmosphere. and in
that lies the secret OF cheeriness.
The really busy woman has no
time wasted. She knows that It means
nothing in comfort and that it is
bound to make her nervous and take
the snap out of her eyes
Yes. yes: crying is rapidly becom-
ing lost art The bottle of smelling
salts still bangles at the end of the
chatelaine chain. but its use is purely
decorative. The sniff and sob are no
longer modern
Women" said DR.. Mary MacMil-
Ian. have become more philosophical
In recent years. They have found that
tears are unproductive OF substantial
results and therefore not to be sum-
moned at frequent periods. A woman
friend of mine had daughter among
the passengers on the Olympic when
that vessel met with an accident on
the other side. The girl very thought
fully sent a cablegram to her mother
telling of her saiety 1t was received
on this side with smiles instead OF
tears.
IL imagine 1t would have been diff
ferent a generation or two back One
might picture a mother then wiring.
ing her hands and sobbing quite as II
she had met with great misfortune.
Days of Mingled Tears.
1T was customary, have been
told. for news OF joyful character con-
corning an incident of some serious
ness to be received with great out
pourings, which were not confined to
the person most interested, but par
ticipated in by others in the imme-
date circle of relatives and friends
The person whose tears fell first
would naturally send for the next
nearest relative, who would hear the
news and then mingle her tears with