The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-03
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uhhappiness may be caused by
cSetwork, poverty, loss OF friends
or failure of accomplishment, but
according to Miss GAGE Valentine
unhappiness Is due to idleness more
than TO any other one cause.
Women are moro unhappy than
men, said Miss Valentine at a. ten
8 abe gave to q party Of New York
friends at the Hotel Astor the other
day, There IS a reason and the
reason can be found in idleness.
Men are rarely idle. Women are
tnveterate idlers. The richer worn-
en- become the more apt they are
70 be idle and the more unhappy
they become. With men the reverse
~ true The more money they get
the more they want and the harder
they work. =
Miss Valentine does not classify
work. She believes when one docs
anything useful II is work. She be-
iteyes a millionaire woman has more
chances for occupation than any
other class OF woman. but II a
woman with million dollars has
not the ability to do big work, Miss
Valentine would put that woman
to- dish washing to keep her happy.
According to Miss Valentines
way OF thinking American men are
pier than European men be-
cause America has no leisure class.
The Europeans ridicule the work
Ing Americans and point with pride
70 themselves because they take
time for leisure. Thomas A. Edi-
son IS happier at work than any
where else. His work Is his enjoys
iIient. John d. Rockefeller is rest
less when away from his office and
the only way he can quit his office
IS to play golf. which is simply an
other form of occupation to keep
his health.
The time was" Miss Valentine
went on to say, when women were
81 unhappy and didn't know why. The
lime, has come when they know
they are unhappy and a lot OF them
snow why. 1t Is because their
minds are not occupied with life
work that absorbs them. Men are
allowed their work and 1t is taken
Tor granted they shall be allowed II,
Women have heretofore been given
lot of personal odd jobs'to do and
been told to be satisfied with them.
But ttsbeing conceded by and large
that woman mentally are NOT n
whole lot different from men md
work Is not a thing of sex but
great big impersonal thing, which
they have an equal right to have
and without which they will never
4 be satisfied.
What do is my life work. I
expect 1t TO continue throughout
my life. expect to be on the stage
when I'm 90. Marriage shall not
Interfere with 1t. / would not
marry q man who asked ma to give
up my profession for him. Does a
: man give up his work for the wom-
IN he marries?"
n suppose he thinks if he did
he'd soon have to give her up,"
8 fneekly interposed member of the
party.
Nonsense! His work is every
hing to him and he never lets even
his wife Interfere with 1t. And a
woman's work must be everything
to her5if she expects 1t to bring the
happiness, 1t really holds for her.
or course she must take 1t serious
Anyone who has worked In my
fession, gotten out at country
railway stations at 3 o'clock in the
morning. been stuffed into wretcii-
ed hotels, who has sacrificed for
success and suffered for 1t, cannot
conceive OF the point OF view which
expects happiness from work
minus its difficulties. All j can say
OF these women Is that, by natural
Process. they will drop out from all
lines OF work. leaving room for the
women who are in earnest"
iDLENESS CAUSES
PRES1UAI on BEAUTY.
The craze of American women to
be beautiful is due to their idleness.
with nothing to do these women
lima CINE they could be happy f they.
We're beautiful and could lure their
husbands to love them. Broadway
has made a lot'of money out OF that
sort of women.
Beauty is one Of. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ediums Of exchange. 1t is as nee.
essary TO the habitues of the Just
l celebrated highway as Is right
arm to a piano player. Not a beauty
ensemble. mind you. for there have
been great candle power successes
that have gone down in the annals
OF the street us painfully plain
which IS only another way OF say
Ing they were. frightfully homely.
But broadway demands some one
redeemingi feature; some one DOM
tnant grace. It may be the witchery
Of eyes: 1t may be the flash OF a
perfect set OF teeth; 1t may he the
curve of mouth, roses in the
cheeks the gold CLINT in hair. It
may be all of these Things, but 1t
must be. one.s broadway demands
at least one distinguishing mark
that viii lift her habitant from me-
diocrity and so enable him or her
TO Negotiate the distance between,
thirty fourth street ana Columbus
Circle without feeling like step
child
on Broadway beauty Is more to
be desired than gold. yea, than
much fine gold, for 1t Is the open
sesame 70 fame. and the Broadway
IDEA of the Happy Hunting Ground