Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-14
HAVING WHAT WE WANT.

HAVING WHAT WE WANT.
Somebody answered an advertise
ment wherein the advertiser offered
for q small sum the secret OF having
what you want" When the answer
came it was worth the money. The
seeker after knowledge was Informed
that certain way to attain this summit
of earthly felicity is to want what
you have"
She Is a young stenographer. lives
erage house with average comforts.
has average parents and has never had
any experience Of real poverty and
homelessness. Mother wakes her in
the morning and Goodies her Of eve
nings when she comes home tired. The
other day she was expressing herself.
She couldn't bear this old town"
There isn't any fun in IL, no place to
go but a picture show" and the rest of
the bosh very young and inexperienced
persons get off regarding their home
towns. This silly little girl longed for
the city. Lord knows why, but she
was dreaming some sort Of a fevered
stenographers in the big cities, had
some sort of distorted vision of
marble halls and servants and serfs
by her side" Conscience knows what
processes Of mind and Imagination
brought about this brainstorn, bu.
she had H.. So many young and cal
the nature Of measles, chckenpox and
other childish diseases.
It was merely matter Of not want
ing what she has. of ignorance and
Interpretation. If it were not SO
dangerous and serious an experiment
nothing would do that young lady so
much good as few months expert
ence in the big town seeking employ
xneut against the competition Of those
who must work every day or do worse
and who can run rings around her in
her avocation. What she needs is to
miss home and mother and fathers
table and the friendly faces which
greet her morning and night as she
goes to good safe job in her home
town. Shed want what She had once
had then. She needs to pay out her
last dollar for board and room and
look into the store windows wishing
she might have the shirt waist marked
down 70 50 cents. She needs Il six
TO have a nickel look as big as the
head Of a barrel. But here's hoping
that she stays where she does not ap-
preciate her blessings and fails to take
the course. To, be sure 1t makes a
spoor or spoiis a horn" but it spoils
more than 1t makes.
The way to have what you want is
by wanting what you have. The way
to want what you have is to take not
ice of it, to take an inventory Of pos
sessions which includes mothers care
and cooking and fathers protection
and roof the love Of the family, the
friendly feeling of those who watch
the slim legged girls grow up to be
stenographers or teachers and clerks
and in time to attain to homes of their
own. This talk about not succeeding
at home is all poppycock. The same
work and attention gets you there at
home as it does away from home. The
difference is in you. You don't work
for your own as you do for others, you
don't save and squira and pay room
rent and board and for every little at
tentiou at home. You take advantage
Forget it. There is nothing to the
silly assumption that opportunity II
the other town has struck work and is
waiting for you to arrive. The light:
will be turned on Just the same If yot
never come. They will not be t:irnet
Off when you go away. 1t is up to yor
either place. You make you own OPP
portunity. Pitch in at home. Pla!
1air- and mother and YOU