El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-13
CBy Beatrice Fairfax

! TINE daily picture gallery offers
much for the entertainment of its
patrons that is devoted to fssh-
! ion. 30 show, to DJTp and vanity and
pride.
/ 1t gives pictures that smuse. and
/ some that are ineNpressibly dreary be-
| cause they were intended TO excite
mirth, and don't. 1t C1folds many can
! vases that leave On impression Of
/ wretchcdness. Of penI-y, of degradation
and of woe.
I But a picture telling nothing more
than story OF happiness Is rarely
( seen. so rarely that those VINO have
sought happiness and haven't found IL
1 claim it is proof that no happiness
I exists.
or. If admitting it. they say cyni-
| cally; Children are happy because
I they are too young to think No che
who thinks is happy
And that is just what the. picture
[ accompanying this article CisprOves-.
I That only the young and thoughless
are happy.
( 1t proves that there Is no happiness
/ as perfect as great or as satisfying as
Z the happiness that comes with mature
/ years-the happiness OF those who
think
Look at the picture. It was taken Of
Mr. and Mrs. Finley J. Shepard when
I they were unconscious that picture
[ was taken. There was no posing for
U
/ and expression to simulate satisfaction
with life The expression of JOY is the
natural expression II is the outward
evidence of inward COntentment
It is picture that should be specially
Interesting and enllEhtening to young
I girls-those of the Fearful Age md
by that I mean the period of their lives
when they regard marriage as all there
is worth while. and the woman a fail
I are who fails to attain it.
So great specter do they make OF
spinsterhOOd that when they reach the
mature age OF 20. and no lover has
knocked at their door. they go out ans
beat the tOm-tOm and make many and
fearful noises with the hope OF driving
him in
They become panic stricken because
{ they do not think, and since only man
can save them from the fate they fear.
they seize the first man who comes
along and accept as an escort through
life a being whom they cannot respect
and do not love
But. at least" such woman will
say. when paying the price of her I'M
. happiness, Il am not an OLD maid
The woman in this picture was not
afraid of being an Old maid. Sne
thought more OF the happiness OF others
than of her own. She concerned herself
with others and let her happiness be q
concern for tomorrow
She looked around her and thought.
She saw that those women who mar
ried simply that they might be married
were the unhapDlest creatures the earth
holds. She saw that there were many
very. very happy spinsters more happy
spinsJers than there were happy wives.
Not Panic Stricken.
she saw that happiness is indepen-
dent of ones years. She did not count
her birthdays with the panic that so
often results In women becoming mis-
mated. She left the years come and go.
taking no account of them as they
might affect her chance of becoming
wife
She made no mistake by marrying the
wronE man through fear of getting
no man at ALL Had Finley j. Shepard
failed to appear she would have re-
mained a happy. C0ntented. useful and
lOvabIe old maid
As the wife of the man OF her choice,
she is happy. contented. useful and low
able, but not more happy. not more
ConLeuted. not more useful and not !
more lovsble than she was in her UNI
married DAYS.
She was willing 90 wait, she was con- (
tented to wait. and had that waiting :
lasted as long as life itself. fl could 3
never have been said of Helen Gould !
that she was sour and dissat istied ana &
morbid and selfish because she was an .
old maid.
She used her brains to think and she I
found that happiness is Independent of I
years or man. When her lover appeared I
he found a happy. lCvable. useful wOm- Z
an waiting for him. Had she been of ]