El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-23
Ada Patterson On Person: fsss. n Tsi Change
Second Article on Human Nuisanoes

IN HERE is no person or quite so
exasperating conduct as the man
and woman, and it is as often one
as the other. who change their minds,
and deem this a sufficient excuse for
anything they may do.
I heard a man returning from an un-
successful attempt to buy a house from
a woman who had the day before. prom
ised 10 make the sale, say 1t is only
q woman would dare do that If man
had tried ii ] would have invited him
out 10 back alley and given MN a
licking And I would have got the house
besides. But what can you do with a
woman,
You can sue her. my friend. and it
viii be an excellent way to teach bust
ness principles TO women who know
them not. Stern lessons for tender crea-
lures are these business principles. but
everyone needs the tuition, and a law
suit is one Of the experiences no one
forgets- 1t whipping by the school
master, the world
The mind changers are the madness
Of milliners, the bankruptcy Of dress
makers and tailOrs, the despair Of real
estate agents. the plague Of their
friends and the torrents Of their un-
happy spouSes-
A miserable man who had been en-
ticed into a shopping expedition before
Christmas stopped on the sidewalk be-
fore a New York shop and diminished
his life partner
death OF me- he grOWled- DO you want
to 90 in there2 Are you sure you do.
Then. 90, and don't come out again and
say You didn't.
He was not sweet tempered man,
this rebel on the curb, but there was
logic in his persuasion. The persons who
change their minds about what they
want didn't know whether they wanted
it in the first place. A witty bishop
characterized a nation as those who
don't know what they want and won't
be satisfied until they get it. This
wasn't fair to the nation that has pro-
duced soldiers, philosophers and states
men who well knew what they wanted
and are hard at getting 1t for them
selves and countryrnen: But 1t is an
admirable Characterization OF a class
of human nuisances restricted to no
cline nor sex. age nor condition.
Once pin the mind to an aim we will
work tremendously and wait patiently
for It There VIII be no probability OF
our changing our mind If We have one
Ask such a person why he has
changed his mind and he is totally IN
able to tell you. He doesn't know. He
never viii know. The fact is enough
and curiOUsly. he considers It a per-
fectly legitimate excuse. He cannot
tell You the reason for that change Of
mind because he doesn't know it. His
digestion may have josued his former
ideas out of place The weather may
have sent his spirits below par. Some
one may have hypnOtiZed him by a sug-
EestiOn. He cares less than ne knows.
Scoring womsn's ages-old reason 7
did 1t because" he feels superior and
sufficient when he announces 7
changed my mind
Lack Of a sense Of responsibility is
behind every whimsical change Of
mind. That a choice Of something Of
some sort has been made does not seem
to the rapid mind changer TO mean any
consequent duty Of standing by the
choice. The man or woman Of staunch
trained priciples, viii choose carefully
and having made the choice, VIII defend
it. as the last Of the color bearers his
flag. while life is in him. That varf-
able mental matter we call mood does
not govern him. He is ruled BY a deep
wel planted, deep rooted sense of hui
man accountability.
Few persons who while lying in the