El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-11

" HE remarkable part Of the follow
ing letter is the age OF the
= woman who writes it. 1t is so
much what might be expected had she
been 10 years younger. There Is so
little in it to denote the wisdom that
should be acquired when one is 81.
I had good position in a town
and 1 used to enjoy spending my
vacation on the farm. met a farmer
and married him last spring He has
been very kind to me. and has given me
a beautiful country home, and an auto
mobile; and, in fact every comfort that
one could have in the country.
4 have not had to work hard, as
I have help whenever / want it. But
1 am so lonesome, and long so for
my work and city friends What L
enjoyed during a vacation attracts nc
Ny husband is a good farmer. but
he is not well educated, so would not
be able TO hold a good position in
city, and likes the city no better than
/ like the country Can you see any.
hope for me sinceI made such a step2
Shall I leave here and go back as a
wage Garner? am 81 years old
Discouraged"
A girl of q has a vague notion that
she always Will be 2L Without any
definite process of reasoning, she has
UnconsciOUsIy concluded that youth is
a matter of viii, and that those who
blame for it
She takes no account of old age be
cause she doesn't intend to reach it.
This disregard Of the future is one
Of youths assets and charms
But the woman of 81, who is still
a wage Garner, and who has no home
except that which her own tired hands
make, and who stops to think, VIII read
with an envlOus sigh of one wage
Garner of 81 who made an exchange of
the northumberland a struggle-fOr
the certainties of a real home with
love in it, and who regrets that she did
it.
I want ''Discouraged' 20 make a
mental picture of the two paths that
lay before her when this man asked her
to be his wife.
The one on which she was travelling.
meant an endless struggle for an un-
certain existence. At 81 she held good
position. and was so blinded by the
lights of the Great White Way that she
thought she could always hold it, The
lure of the city made her forget tEat
this struggle must grow harder as she
grew older and was less able 10 make
A good woman empIoyc OF Al is not
in as great demand as one perhaps not
so good but whose years are less, and
when she has reached 81, her years of
faithful service will not save her from
The friends Of her younger years
have married, or died, or moved aN dy.
She lacks the energy, the ability, the
desire, to make new friends She IS
stranded. in a way, and all she has be-
tween her and old age is a mere pit
lance compared with the great ut-
mand approaching helplessness Will
make upon it.
on the other road lay a comfortable
home the protection that goes with
home of ones own, luxury, ease, COM
fort: many things that grow more dear
as the years leave one less fitted for
priVatiOns, and. above all these, the
love of a man who, she says, is good
man and devoted to her
All these material allurements We IN
largely with the woman who has grown
old and tired. and with the love of
good man thrown in, they leave moth
ing to be desired.
The tragic emptiness of life alone i'm
a city: the cry OF loneliness that viii
not be stifled by theaters, dances and
gay companions as one grows older,
these and more should lead "DiscOur-
aged" to get down on her knees and
thank a kind heaven for what it has
spared her
can you see any hope for mc2' she
asks. 1 see nothing else ahead! To