The Washington herald., 1912-06-22
MOODY WOMAN HAS
FEW REAL FRIENDS
She Is Disappointing and Undesir.
able as a Companion.
By FRANCES sHAFFER.
49, did You ~?

Moods, did you say?
Don't let yourself drift that way, for
they make everybody want TO run away
20 a more wholesome atmosphere and
Bweeter companionship. And that is the
worst Of all.
OF course, there Is always a back
ground, and, of course, one always feels
that the something is a very big griev-
Bnce. And maybe it is, but It doesn't I
pay TO let te mind tran away to the
realm where moods are born, because
that Is the same land that harbors
very disagreeable, uncompanionable folk.
What matter that they sometimes rise
TO the heights Of lovableness, are sweet
and altogether delightful. II the next
stray wind carries them back and they
become unresponsive. disappointing and
undesirable as companions?
And who asks about the background,
who cares that there may be a good
reason-who but the one who sits in
darkness and thinks? Who else greatly
cares for anything but to be comforta-
BILE, to breathe free air and be exempt
from the exactions and the unpleasant
twists Of an unseemly mood?
Question Each Must Answer.
In all our relations in life, it is a
question for individual decision:
Shall We look our grievances full in
the face, overcome them II we can, en-
dure them II we must-and be sweet?
Or shall they gain the mastery, con-
quer the Hkable, lovable self, substitute
moods for tranquility and drive away
friends?
Because, whatever the excuse, whether
grounded in right or wrong, a man OF
woman controlled by moods viii soon
see friends slip away to easier COM
panionship.
If there is a trouble eating away at
the heart Of any human relationship,
and two people who are thrown together
in close companionship cannot associate
without constant friction, the Nonlooker
can only wonder why they do not choose
separate paths; else why they do not
weigh their troubles and determine
whether the balance Of pickering and Of
strife is worth while against the COM
parative happiness that comes with a
determination 20 make the best OF a bad
situation.
The theory Of peace at any price is
not an inspiring sentiment, and is not
a hopeful rule of life, but if one cannot
make life run as she would have it and
cannot make folk de what she thinks is
right, what is gained by sulking, by
sharp, disagreeable looks, sharper, more
disagreeable words?
II one could look. speak, and then
move on to a different world Of people,
it might be well; but If one is going to
live out her life, or a goodly part Of II,
with another, there is no room for
moods The end is inevitable-unhappi-
ness.
Watch Way II Works.
As we go through life we cannot help
watching the way it works.
a long, long while ago a young hus-
band and wife embarked on their voyage
together. Early on the way knowledge
came to her that II they lived together
in peace L would be because she bent
TO his stubborn, unyielding will She
might fight a new fight each day. and
when the day was over there would be
nothing gained but a little more bitter
ness and a little wider breach.
She was in the right while he need
ed to be made over. But she couldn't
remake him and wasn't ready to pack
her trunks, wasn't quite convinced that,
after all, her best happiness lay in de-
vided paths.
Many years have passed: he has been