Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
WORK ANDLOVE,
URGES ACTRESS
FROM AUGUSTA
School for Unhappy Wives Is
Suggested by Mrs. ROsIyn
MundeII.
BY ELIZABETH ELLIOTT.


ernoon teas, dinners and luncheons
in her Southern mansion, attending
to the charities which were brought
to her attention dining, dancing and
frivoling the hours away as best she
could, to a hard working actress in a
Frohman company, is the change
which has come into the life of Mrs.
Roslyn Mundell, of the fine old Au-
gusta, Ga, family Of that name. The
change came because Mrs Mundell
insisted that it should come.
She, a woman of breeding, highest
social position, beauty, charm, and
with all that-vibrantly magnetic, has
left the butterfly existence to which
she was born and in which she was
bred and has gone out into the world,
where she declares things and people
are worth while"
Enough being an actress is the
hardest work In the world, she in
sists that never before in her life
has she been happier.
Sees All Phases Of Life.
Mrs Mundell has been on the stage
but a few weeks, but in that time she
has made 1t her business to see every
phase of stage life, and she is
charmed.
81 was so frightened when obey
told me / was to be interviewed" she
confided to me when we met and
started our chat, but | really don't
believe it's going to be so bad after
all"-and we were soon launched out
onto the discussion of life and Its as
poets from all angles.
Love and hard work. then more
love and more hard work are the
panaceas for every known i'll, she
told me.
"LOve-that's my religion. And
when we have love in our hearts, be
II for one person or for humanity in
general, we have sure hold on hap
piness. When we love and love truly
we forget ourselves. and when we
have succeeded in putting self abso-
lutely and eternally in the back
ground, then the doors to happiness
open on all sides and before we know
1t we wake up TO find ourselves In
full possession of that which we have
pursued so breathlessly
Most important in World.
Love Is the most important thing
In the world, and no woman ever ala
anything more wonderful or more
worth while than Just loving.
mo girl, no matter how talented,
should seek career. A good hus-
band, happy home and a nice big
family OF children should be her ca
reer-the only one worth while and
the only one she should ever desire.
Many girls are carried away by the
glamour of it all, but nothing counts
in the end as does love concentrated
In the home. / wish we might make
our suffragettes realize this"
Then you're not suffragette?" |
questioned.
-"Suffragette ?" and her brown eyes
danced delightfully."- at the very
thought of it. "NO, indeed. / think
every Southern woman is essentially
home woman and believes she
should use her influence with her hus-
band and With her sons to bring about
the conditions she desires rather than
going out and fighting for them her
self. A woman gains nothing and
loses much by these suffrage meth
DDS.
Next to love comes work. Love
and work can transform the ugliest
Love and work can make the most
unhappy woman the happiest, and
love and work can make the most
miserably unhealthy woman the
healthiest. It's the forgetting of self
which counts. With love comes I'M
selfishness. If two people really love
each other and marry, they Will each
be unselfsh, each will work for the
other; they will make their interests
common; they will enjoy real com
panionship. and can't help finding
happiness.
School for Unhappy Wives.
you know, | think there should be
school for unhanpy wives. | thiu6
II would be pretty full" she added
with a rising infection and a charm
ing smile which showed her wonder
full teeth.
There they could be taught the
fundamental essentials for the max
ing of a happy home, or II they were
absolutely untitled for that course,
then we might give them another
perhaps a business course or A train
ing for some other career-but some
thing which would keep them busy.
IF the women who fool and fritz II
their time away, the women with
money, society women--who as a rule
are Iit ulbSl unhappy NpilCh VI III
world simply because they are per-
haps the most selfish women of the
world-would start out and do some
III ng really worth while, they woul1
find that happiness was not the delI-
sion and the snare they have come to
believe It, II is simply because they
are selfish that they are unhappy.
They love themselves, and that never
does. So much of our trouble is mere
~ due to a wrong mental attitude.
II think If a girl has no parents to
protect her that she should marry
young. the younger the better, for she
surely needs a protector mar
should marry just as soon as he is
financially able. | would say to anY
girl, no matter how alluring her ca
reer might look, put it aside and
marry
stage Is Wonderful"
THE stage" think It is wonderful.
The people Of the stage are not
class they're a race. They are tn
most human, the most broad minded.
the most inter sely interesting class OF
people one could wish to know.
IF all companies are like mine
and, of course. I know of no others
should not have the least fear in let
ting a young daughter of mine go on
the stage. The pitfalls We hear 50
much about are missing and a girl Is
really more protected there than she
would be in many other lines ct