The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-28
The Wornara's Page Of The Times Dispatch
The Use of Things

we are so prone to grow tired of
people and work and ideas and every
thing whom we arc not putting the best
into what we are doing. The CIR!
next to your office seems to be having
the easiest time: the man in tho Office
Just ahead of you never seems to he
doing anything in tho least worth
while, and your soul Is frctted With
longing and wishing you had and hop
Ing that you might. You do not like
what you are doing. and the very
dreary round OF things irritates YOU
What Is the use. after all?
Isn't living one day at time the
hardest thing In the world? Our part
in the world Is so small. and our am
bitions and desires so great, and life
Is so limited and narrow. that we SIM
ply cannot walt for tomorrow and the
day after that and the day after them
oil. We grow Impatient. and IL we are
not saying. What Is the use of Iiv-
ng! are we not crying out with the
little maid of very great play. Say.
what's the use OF us. anyway"
Down u crowded street every day
comes q feeble and blind old man lie
fs hopclossiy blind. and the tapping OF
his stick i5 not sufficient TO guide him
through the congested traffic Of the
city. a very small boy leads him by
tho hand. and the blind man goes his
way content. l have looked often into
i
Tor signs of restiveness and WEAKNESS
against daily routine of leading here
ana thcra by the hand qucrulous and
afflicted fellow man. but his face is as
unrufhcd and content as days that pasg
unheeding and unclodcd. II Is not an
easy task; It IS surely no great life
work, that Of leading blind man by
the hand through the streets What
are you doing? Whose eyes are YOU?
In narrow frame and written in
lottero OF scarlet IL an inscription. II
shall pass through this world but
once" There is more TO II. but II Is
unimportant The use OF things Is
what we can eo--what we can mean
TO the world You know better than
anybody else what your little days
mean. what II IS that you are tired OF.
why you don't think that things are
worth while. and you are only passing
this once
Some people go through life 81 cheer
ful that 1t IS simply aggravating to
look at them. and think they have no
more business to be too happy--that Is,
thrust 1t upon you--thap you have TO
be down at the mouth and offend the
possibilities OF the man you walk
downtown with when your core.
wasn't good. Heaven knows. bad coffee
Is calamity enough, but lot the other
follow DO happy: his was oil right.
1t isn't TO be SO bright and smiling;
IL is only To do the best you can aud
1.-Two to-day. Tho big tomorrow takes
oare for itself
Tho use OF things is what we make,
1t ourselves. and the use of us" is no,
nearly 80 serious n problem as ones
innermost soul would have US believe.
BRENT WITT.
Buttcrmllk ms n Food.
According to recent bulletin issued
b. tho Department OF Agriculture,
glass OF buttermilk equals IN food
value two ounces of bread, u good
sized potato or a half-pint of oysters
u thus contains about tho same food
constituents as skim milk. but 1t hns
an added hyg!enic value. because the
protein is more easily prescribed by
physicians for children and 'nvalids.
especially those suffering from int,sti-
nal trouble.
Protein. being tho most costly of
food ingredients. is the one most likely
TO be lacking in inexpensive mails and
this Is the nulriment which both skim
milk and buttermilk supply in chear
and useful form, and, when taken
with bread or used in cooking they
form nutritious addition to the dtst
Two and one-half quarts of skim milk
or buttermilk contains about the same
amount OF protein as one pound of
round steak. and costs about one-quar-
ter as much
Two quarts of milk has a greater
nutrient value than one quart of oys-
ters. The nutriment IN the form of
oysters would cost 80 TO so cents
while the skim milk or buttermilk
would have a value on the farm OF
from to cents.
Hair Dressing.
The classical simplicity OF the Golf
fure is responsible for mulch bewaIline
On the part OF hairdressers Just no -
And there's no need t. blame II on
fear Of germs or the good sense of
women, said one; it's style, that's all.
In addition to the Apache style, with
the hair straight over the brow, a
bandeau to keep 1t in place and a loose
coll at the back OF the head there is
tho style for angelic Edna May coun-
Senances. parted in tho middle, loose
waves and simple twist round the
crown.
Mile Grouse. the noted French
beauty actress. whose gowns and
mode of hairdressing are copied by
the smart set OF Paris, is wearing
three little curls over each ear and
ono follow me" curl over the shout
der. Jewels. flowers OF ribbon, and
lots Of barettes and combs are worn
In place of artificial nair. But the
white Ivory combs, which are some
times seen in dark hair. look too
bizarre for words.